Project Hail Mary, a French Manor, and Ladies of London Are All Delights!

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Potential DWB HQ Alert: I’d like to thank Morgan, my friend and fellow Broad (and fellow Morgan), for alerting me to this manor estate in Burgundy that has a waterfall!! And a swimming hole! And an art studio! And a turret! And, per its listing, a “dining room, with its sideboard for carving hunting trophies, its immense fireplace for roasting them and its banquet table for serving them.” Do we have to? I am not Gaston. Meat-related concerns aside, this place is also weirdly cheap, so I assume it has a lot seriously wrong with it, but what that might be is a mystery. It is also incredibly charming — click through the photos to see the room with all the pots! — and the grounds are glorious, so I might be willing to overlook a lot, to be honest.

But the numbers never lie. To the report card:

KITCHEN: 0 out of 10. This is a rough start. There are no photos. IS THERE ONE?

BATHROOMS: 0 out of 10. Again, no photos of a bathroom is SUSPICIOUS and almost always bad.

GENERAL INTERIOR: 3 out of 10.