Dear Katrina,
Do you know that we do have a Lord and Lady of the Kinrowan Estate? They’re purely symbolic but they do exist. It was at a handfasting between one of the Several Annies, the lass named Robin, and Catherine, the lass who’s been working on the slate roof as part of the repairs needed this year unless we want it to rain in the Old Library which would really piss off everyone.
They decided to get handfasted in the circle of nine standing stones that are near the High Meadow. They could’ve used the former Sanctuary but both love the woods and fields here more than they do any Church.
Well it turns out that Iain, a Scot who is openly contemptuous of the Church of Scotland, is ordained in something he calls the Church of Oak, Ash, and Thorn. Or at least he says he is. No matter if it’s true or not as he delivered a truly moving blessing for the bonding of the couple. And towards the end of his blessing, he invoked the Lady of The Lake and The Lord of The Forest! That certainly got my attention.
The glowing couple, both dressed in rather fetching green, kissed and went off on a Welsh walking trip after a reception in the Great Hall. I even caught Reynard slipping them a bottle of very good Estate metheglin to take with them.
Love, Gus
