blue doors

The first thing you notice (or rather - a blipper would notice) as you enter the courtyard of Claydon House in Buckinghamshire is that all the doors are blue.  (This gives me another opportunity to play with the selective colour filter on my camera, just to reinforce the point. In case you hadn’t noticed.)

Painting a door blue is meant, in some cultures, to ward off evil.  Perhaps the owners of this pile have similar concerns - or perhaps they simply got a 'too good to turn down' deal when they went to the paint shop.  I suspect the latter, because they painted the tops of the recycling bins and the doors and windows of many of the village houses, the same shade of blue as well.

Anniemay and I went out foraging today, calling in at Claydon Manor (for lunch) and Stowe (tea and cake) - we like to eat where the rich folks used to dine.  Although we ate in the stable block and not the Big House.  We know our place.