Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 2hI think the real decline in society came when the well-heeled gave up on hats 000 0
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 8hSo the tours would be going through the house and in one room she'd be sat on the other side of the velvet ropes watching the horse races as though they weren't there Really wish I could remember where/if I actually read this 020 2
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 8hI remember reading a story of a country house being given to a local authority in the 50s with a little old lady in situ as life tenant, and even though the house was open to tours she still used the rooms she'd always used 110 1
Reposted by Eddy MurphyJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you are Molly, the one-of-a-kind singing and dancing bird automaton permanently attached to the wall that Kelly Clarkson tried to buy at Art of Play in Brooklyn?!?!?!? 3738 73
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026*Rhett Butler voice*: you should be fucked and often, and by someone who knows how 120 2
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026E Plan prodigy house with a (fake) Norman Keep tacked on to one end, enough reception rooms for an example of every era of country house interior, massive conservatory, chapel, cloister 😘👌 010 1
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It a relief to know that could I ever afford to build, my dream house has already been designed by a homosexual self-published author (writing in the style of Dorothy L. Sayers) from Oakland, California 100 1
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think it's that we (the gays) don't marry young 110 1
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026These pictures won't tell you anything, check the urbex forums and YouTube channels 000 0
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026First thing I'd do is knock out all these bedrooms and put in the long gallery that was (I think) planned but never actually finished 000 0
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh she is a beauty www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...rightmove.co.ukCheck out this 48 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove48 bedroom detached house for sale in Stapleford, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE14 for £18,000,000. Marketed by Strutt and Parker, National Country House Department 210 2
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Great Northern Hotel, Kings X: Loses points for not having any black tea besides Brekkie and Earl Grey, good size pot4one giving three cups, heavenly scones served warm with sufficient quantity of jam and cream 3.5 ⭐ 020 2
Reposted by Eddy MurphyPatrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Fun fact: Bambi’s mother didn’t die in the script. The hunter improvised shooting her on the spot. Those are real tears from Bambi. The director kept it in! 0413 41
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Fun Fact: Galadriel going photonegative wasn't actually in the script Cate Blanchett improvised it on the spot, she has to work very hard not to suddenly glow with terrifying unearthly light in her other roles 29319 93
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I did wonder if those were the Dark Nurseries which had become a furniture repository before Lady Victoria's tenure 010 1
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Anyone got a spare £2mil? www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...rightmove.co.ukCheck out this 24 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove24 bedroom detached house for sale in Rothamsted, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 for £2,000,000. Marketed by Savills, Residential and Country Agency 200 2
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yes I can see how that would be quite an Oedipus Complex if one were a Muppet 020 2
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This plan from 1991 says you're correct, it's just ceiling and void up there and also on the state rooms on the south front 100 1
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm 99% sure I have a planning application for Burghley with plans of the 2nd floor saved, lemme get back to you 110 1
Reposted by Eddy MurphyPeter @b1nbag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Florence Welch meeting a gay couple: who is the lamb and who is the knife 2102 10
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 24/09/20262 and 2/3s cups of tea (bone china teacup sized) and 1 cup coffee (standard coffee shop cup sized) But I was working today and I drink significantly less tea on work days 000 0
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026For her own sake someone please hack Sarah Paulson's phone and block all numbers connected to Ryan Murphy and then do the same for her agents 010 1
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's buried towards the end of the article but I like Mixxy diagnosing Last Ditch's actual problem, the mandate discouraged a lot of potential customers and attracted a very specific market that couldn't financially sustain the bar 000 0
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026ASOIAF Modern AUs should try harder to preserve canon era events, like hearing offhandedly that Balon Greyjoy's in prison because he Coup'd the devolved Iron Islands government and briefly headed a secessionist dictatorship 000 0
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026'Does the Burger come with chips?' well firstly it says so right there on the menu but secondly WHERE IN THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD OF RESTURANTS AND BARS AND DINERS AND PUBS HAVE YOU ENCOUNTERED A SOLO BURGER 000 0
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I finish my break, I go to check that the private dining was set up yesterday The fuck is this 000 0
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Aristocratic scandals of The Past have an air of glamour and high drama, but this Spencer nonsense is all so dreary and grubby and bland 120 2
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Had some visiting Americans in the other week and we were out of Ceasar Salad (don't ask me, I've no idea what goes on in that Kitchen) and she said wistfully and forlornly 'I just miss salad' 130 3
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I do really like stories that say No, you cannot just claim parenthood or have it casually gifted to you, you actually have to have been present and done the work of parenthood 000 0
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026At what point does one crossover from being a multi-Oscar Nominee to being an Oscar Loser 011 1
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026'Mary's content to be what he is' 'And what's that?' 'A homosexual.' 'And what are we?' '𝘧𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘴' 010 1
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Thinking of that one Broadway Backwards performance of 'Weekend in the Country' where it's set in a gay gym/sauna Someone should do a version of The Women where they're all Queer Men 100 1
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Upper-middle class New Yorkers at the 1970 premiere of Company 000 0
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I think the best bit of Mildred Pierce The Movie is, without the opera career, Veda is just an idiot, she's ridiculously delightfully stupid 130 3
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Maybe the Northern nobility can be Scottish but it has to be like, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie cut-glass Scottish 000 0
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I think ASOIAF adaptations should do the Frears Dangerous Liaisons thing where the smallfolk all have distinct regional accents but the nobility all have Kathy Hepburn transatlantic accents 100 1
Eddy Murphy @viscountconsett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I do find it interesting how much UK 'gentrification' happens in places that, whilst they spent much of the 19th-20th C. as slums, were genteel when built 000 0