Your first thought is, "This is my son's 13th birthday, and I am in a
nut house. When I've been depressed before, I knew that there was no real reason to feel bad.
"But those who use Honeymoon House or
Nut House don't have that problem as it is higher up the river bank and on a rocky outcrop."
The couple's four-bed, three-bath villa has a private pool set in stunning gardens; Tony and Margaret love the
Nut House"But those who use Honeymoon House or
Nut House don't have that problem as it is higher up the river bank and on a rocky outcrop." The lodge, which has a maximum 26 guests at any one time, even has a romantic floating restaurant, which is towed into the river and anchored.
"People said my husband had a mad wife and my children had a mad mum who lived in the '
Nut House'.
However, if you had to play for a living on a course like this it would send a lot of people to the
nut house."
The building soon became known as The
Nut House. In 1980, the company celebrated the opening of a warehouse extension.
In the main, the neon
nut house of San Antonio is a party town whose appeal remains elusive to me but it's also home to the fabled Cafe del Mar and that's definitely my cup of tea.
I'm always just one hair's breadth away from the
nut house. I can't get over the death of David."
Pursued by photographers on an erratic car ride around Los Angeles, she is said to have shrieked down her phone: "They're not sending me to the
nut house! No one can make me go if I don't want to go - and I ain't goin'." As the pal tried to calm her she ranted: "See that?
And while not all of Cherie's little helpers should be dismissed as "cranks", some of this stuff is one short step off the
nut house.
It's these two who have kept me out of the
nut house over the last eight weeks.
In those days mental hospitals were
nut houses, loony bins.