Well known at this address

As long term bloggees will effortlessly recall, Huttonian spent much time and effort (not to mention specie) getting the go ahead from the Church of Scotland to change the name of this house from its meaningless nomenclature 'Antrim House' to what it was generally known as in Hutton: 'The Old Manse' The C of S as our 'Feu Superior' resisted this change as they felt that two buildings with Manse in their title might cause uncontrollable confusion, amounting to postal anarchy in a village made up of probably as many as 40 houses. More seriously the 'burdens' imposed upon us by our Feudal Masters enshrined in the building's deeds not only included a prohibition on gambling ( I bet you didn't know that) the sale of alcohol (the next one is on you. And the next) the holding of any kind of religious or spiritual gathering (Sorry Vicar can we talk in Kirk Lane) but also a blanket prohibition on having the mention of the word Manse in the name of the house. Deaf to our pleas 121 George Street had to give up the struggle when the Scottish Parliament swept away the old Feu (Feudal) land ownership system thus, in effect, giving us our freehold. Amid scenes of wild excitement we officially adopted ' The Old Manse' as our right and proper address. And this well over a year ago. We resisted the temptation to celebrate our emancipation with a wild Bingo Evening, bring a Nun and BYO (Buy Your Own on arrival) So we just drew a line and moved on. And distributed our new address to all our correspondents

It seems that after all that effort Manse in our address does not seem to be as widely understood as it deserves. The English seem particularity puzzled-not many manses south of the border apparently and we are flooded with mail-mostly junk-with a variety of variations on the Old Manse theme: Odd Manie, Old Maan, Ould Manig, Old Menses(every four weeks or so)Old Mensa (from the more intellectually gifted) to name but a few. But the most frequent stab at postal correctness which may or may not be an attempt at a character assessment of the male incumbent is

The Old Manic.

At least not 'Maniac'

But near enough.  ¶ 9:21 AM