January 10. 1860. Tuesday

It has been a few days since my last entry. I feel like these few days have drained me of the rest of my powers. We saw thru the castle on Monday, since the trip there took longer than expected. I feel I need to eksplain this.

We traveled on Sunday and went thru the town to get to the main road. On the way passed the inn, a drunken man suddenly came into the road in front of our wagon. This startled the hourses and made them direct the wagon into a barrel near to a wall. Luckily, it was empty, so the ekspence only reatched as far as the barrel itself when it came to other peoples property. The drunken man had gotten away and left us with a broken weel.

We didn’t get anywhere until it had gone 3 hours. We arrived the castle at nighttime and we had to wait until morning before we could look thru it. We went down to a local in and rented a bed for the night. When we stated our names for the innkeeper, he looked upp at uss with a strange look in his eyes. I cought myself thinking: I hope this village is not hostile toward strangers. When we finaly got to the castle, in daylight, we started scouring the most important rooms. If we ware to look thru all the rooms, we could have just as well stayed a hole week. We saw thru the kitchen, the bedrooms, the livingroom, study, grandhall, dininghall, whinecellar, bathrooms, foodstorrages, commonroom, smokingrooms and guestrooms. So far, it all looked well, yet when we went outside to the courtyard, smithy, garden, labyrinth and greenhouse, we saw that it would need extended yardwork. It seems like it has not been taken care of for years.

Ofcourse, this is not really a huge concern, but still, I do not feel like staying at a place like this. A mansion is big enof. We are not even shure about everything in that house. What should we do, if we had a hole castle to care for? I am concerned. Yet, Mia is convinced that we can make it. We will have to see. If we are to move, we will have to both move ourselves and all the members of the household, like the gardener, all the maids, Francis and the kitchenstaff. It would be most difficult.

Yesterday, Monday, I had gone to to the bank to check upp the possible overekspence of doing this. I found out that if all goes well on the stockmarket for a hole month, I might just be able to live thru it without paying any ekstra expence, other than the travel itself and the ekstra payment of getting more people to join the household. I suppose I can bare with it, but I have not yet decided. Derek said he would help me a little if I really needed it. After all, he was the one that inherited the money from William, and to my knowlege, it was an insane amount of money.

I noticed that the wrightingdesk in the study at the castle was not in perfect shape. The drawers were all shut tight and locked so they were impossible to open without the proper tools. I would haveto go thru all the furniture and replace ocational broken objects.

It rained on the way home and at the mansion. Not a pleasant day, Tuesday. If we are to move, we will do so sometime in a couple of weeks. Derek came over to stay the night and have a few drinks with us tonight. As I wright this, it is 3 in the morning. I can not belive I am doing this. Good night, dear diary.