A Writer's House in Wales by Jan Morris

Author:Jan Morris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 2002-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

Who art thou, visitor?

If friend, welcome of the heart to thee:

If stranger, hospitality shall meet thee:

If enemy, courtesy shall imprison thee.

Whoever wrote them, I like to think my kitchen subscribes to their sentiments (except perhaps the bit about the enemy—it does not invariably respond courteously to busybody officials, intrusive evangelists or abrasive ramblers, and I dare say Lady Llanover’s kitchen didn’t really, either). Certainly the room always offers me a welcome of the heart which I like to think reaches me out of its own generations of hospitable inhabitants, and for that matter out of Wales itself.

I agree with another earlier Morris of these parts, the seventeenth-century Iorwerth Morus, who was a cattle drover by trade, and spent much of his time away from home. This is what he wrote about returning to the kitchen at his own house, Hafod Lom:

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