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A Tour of the ManseTea-time saw a spicy blend served with mushroom tartlets and shortbread cookies shaped like multi-legged creatures, maybe octopi or spiders. It was a silent affair. We were hungry -- or peckish as Jensen may have said -- and it appeared we felt like entering Zen zones again. Forty minutes later our sated re-energized group, save Jensen, marched along a west-wing corridor lined with ornaments and weaponry. Longswords, battle axes and quarterstaffs, and unusual pieces of chainmail added an interesting if not disquieting dimension to the interior decoration. King Arthur and his knights would have felt perfectly at home.
The plan was to move throughout the first floor, from back to front, starting with the larder and kitchen. If nothing else, it was something to do to k
