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THE fashion for ornamental dovecotes and snow-white turtle doves in the garden is all very well and pretty, but not if you're a book lover with a treasured library of any size, according to the sparky 1960s raver and painter of murals, the Marquess of Bath, who still sports a tartan cap, long curls, a grey beard and kaftans as colourful as his past.
The Marquess has got rid of his pretty white doves and installed budgies in the dovecote while waiting for something more "amboyant to take their place. He says the doves had to go, as they were getting up onto the roof of Longleat, his main house in Wiltshire in England, and leaving a mess that attracted a parasite, which travelled down into the rooms and attacked the books.
Who would have thought such a thing?
The house, gardens and safari park at Longleat are open daily to the public until November .
Telephone 0044-1985 844400.
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