Nos da o Gregynog.
Second day of ghostly conference at Gregynog. Started with reading Adam Coward's (https://ramblesandstudies.wordpress.com/) paper on Edmund Jones for him (very well received) and listened to Sophie Davies's great exploration of the gothic in Bertha Thomas's and Allen Raine's short stories. Good stuff!
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Two smashing #WelshGothic days at #Gregynog. The weather and gardens provided a nice mood board.
Some final impressions from a suitably #Gothic autumn setting at #Gregynog. There is no finer conference setting anywhere in Wales. Fight me!
@_bydbach_ p Great photos. The front aspect is particularly eerie in that light. 🙂
@tonbro1961 My personal favourite is still Gregynog on a particularly misty spring morning. It's one of my favourite places anywhere.
@_bydbach_ yes, very beautiful in the mist. Must be lovely walking there this time of year
@tonbro1961 Mostly soggy. But that's ok.
@_bydbach_ stunning! Loving both building and scarlet folia

@_bydbach_ did you have any ghostly encounters at Gregynog? They put me in a haunted room (alone) during a medieval history conference back in 2003.

I couldn’t sleep the whole three days. It felt like somebody was watching me, and I couldn’t shake it. Later found out the room is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a little girl who sits on the end of your bed and watches you sleep.

Great 😬

@dirtysexyhistory Nope, never. I've been attending conferences there for whole weekends for the last nine years. Not even in rooms 7 and 8, which are said to be haunted by small spectral girl ghosts. Were you in one of those two?
@_bydbach_ I can’t remember the number now, but it was in one of the higher floors. It had a small adjoining bathroom, two twin beds, and a huge gilt mirror on the wall. I think it faced the back garden
@dirtysexyhistory That sounds more like 8, rather than 7 (which HUGE and has a double bed, large wardrobe and a sink).
@_bydbach_ definitely not that big!
@dirtysexyhistory One of the best rooms (no recollection where it is located in the house), was the one with the Mary Lloyd Jones original watercolours on the walls. But generally, I love all the original art just dotted inconspicuously all over the house.