Pannal Hall

Unfortunately Jennifer Bentley who used to live at Pannal Hall but latterly lived at Brookside Cottage has died. She was 87. I used to visit her there and always found her informative and interesting to talk to. We shared the same name before we married. We were both called Grant and strangely enough we both had a great great grandfather also called Grant who was an Admiral in the Royal Navy. My Dad was in the Royal Navy for 22 years before and all through the Second World War and was a decorated war hero who was entitled to a gun carriage funeral in Harrogate. Which he had attended by the RN at Forest Moor. Jenny was also a WREN in the Royal Navy.

Does that leave Pat Lamb as Pannal's oldest inhabitant or is it Jennifer Bentley? Hopefully someone will let me know.

I have had the whole house decorated and as the decorator was going into one room I had all the furniture out and it was in the summerhouse, the garage, hall and other rooms. Eventually got it all back. Decided to wash every curtain in the house and fortunately it stayed dry. Horrible job getting them down and up again.  What fun and I don't think. I have hundreds of books and I thought I will empty the bookcases, pile them in order so I know where they will go when it is time to put them back. What happened I do not know but I had bookcases filled and books left over and I am afraid they were stuffed in a pile. Still puzzled how that happened. Tigs and Marble did not like it one bit. Especially when their beds were thrown into the garden in order to paint the room they sleep in. Not a single purr all week.

The garden collection does not start until March 21 and everyone is gardening now and probably need to have the grass cut soon. Fortunately the family came up at half term and they helped me take the sacks to the tip. Weather, at the moment, brilliant does this bode well for summer?. Who knows but I hope so.