Not our dining room...

...well it couldn't be, could it? - as we're away travelling at the moment!

It's actually the dining room at Tyntesfield, the National Trust country house and grounds we visited today. It's rather splendid: the extra shows the outside of the house. And a lot of the money made by the developer of the house (William Gibbs) was from trading in...Guano! Seemingly in the 1850s he could make £100,000 per year - quite a lot in those days.