It was not uunusual for the Sempstress to attend Guests early in the morning and supplement their Party Disguises with Capes, Manteaux, Frissellennes, and Canvas Dispatches, depending on the Evening Themes. All the Manager required was that the Sempstress was given adequate notice for individual choice of buttons and tassles. Not a lot to ask, I hear you cry.

The Montagist of this image has also slipped in a rather unconvincing Holiday Inn Honeymoon Suite Four Poster, but that fools nobody, old chum. The Prize Pig painting (anon.c1810) however is genuine and is still in the Pyramid Gallery. It depicts Lavenham Market, and features one of the earliest representations of a Fish Stall with purely East Anglian Fishes. Floating uneasily on the asphaltum base are some delicate glazes in rose and serpentine that suggest an early work by the Master of the Liottle cabinet.

The German satirist and traveller, George Groats stayed in this room en route to a boxing match in Birmingham Town Hall. He caused much merriment at breakfast the day following his arrival by joking (in German) about the apparent conflict between Fishes in the Painting and the Chub in the Aquarium. Who said the Teutons had no sense of humour? Any person with the slightest knowledge of the German Language would nevertheless be slightly alarmed by the double entendre that the distinguished satirist intended. His bout with Jospeh

There is a very fat man in a green shirt included in the composition as a sort of assurance that the Cottage infestation was (literally) being 'looked into'. Didn't seem to do much good thoughh. The resemblance to Leslie Hore-Belisha caused much speculation in the Family. When I finally battled my way through to the receipt Books, mr.~Hore - Belisha (after whom the Beacons were named) agreed to be included in the Mollusc Mural in the Aquarium as a Concerned Fisherman. The model for the Infestation Operative was the comic English actor Fred Emney. The monacle can be clearly seen. The Receipt Book reveals that he was paid a whole golden guinea to contribute his celebrated profile and pendulous gut.

The addition of a whiolesome spread in the foreground does indicate the generosity of Breakfasts on the Grammercy Estate. You can see Honey and Kidneys and flasks of Cordial. The theme of Hospitality and Carbonation is picked out elsewhere in the descriptions of the Dower House and the Ballcock Paddocks in the East.