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Professor Scott Rice of San Jose University in California is the founder of the annual Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest, which since 1982 has challenged entrants to \u201ccompose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels\u201d.\u00a0 Despite that, he is a friend.\u00a0 \u201cAll publicity is good publicity\u201d the saying goes.\u00a0 But there are times when we are not sure.\u00a0 In the last month Knebworth House has been moved from English Heritage\u2019s \u201cBuildings At Risk\u201d register to English Heritage\u2019s \u201cPriority Buildings At Risk\u201d register.\u00a0 English Heritage has good reason \u2013 50% of the house remains unrestored and in a perilous condition \u2013 however, as a headline, this can, for instance, worry brides who have booked the house for their weddings next year.\u00a0 Even Scott Rice writes from California saying he has read that \u201cKnebworth House may be closing down\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brides need not worry \u2013 thanks to the Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust, the other 50% of the house is beautifully restored, and will be the perfect venue for their happy day.\u00a0 And as for \u201cclosing down\u201d, that has never been an option on my jotting pad!\u00a0 I have thus reassured Scott, and taken the opportunity, at the same time, to send him Page 3 of last Friday\u2019s The Sun newspaper, in which Hollie, 22, from Manchester quotes \u201cthe English poet Edward Bulwer Lytton\u201d.\u00a0 All publicity is good publicity!<\/p>\n

The Bulwer Lytton saying that Hollie\u00a0from Manchester quotes is a good one for the Christmas issue, so I will sign off with it.\u00a0 All at Knebworth House send very best seasonal wishes, and my great-great-great-grandfather\u2019s observation \u2013 to be considered as you are tucking into Christmas puddings, Quality Street chocolates and mince pies \u2013 \u201cIn life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves\u201d!<\/p>\n

Henry Lytton Cobbold
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