Patricia, companion in Harmondsworth
Six hundred years of barn, a mile and a half from a runway.
- Age
- 28
- Where she works from
- Harmondsworth
- Her home district
- Belgravia
- An hour opens at
- £250
- Height
- 172 cm
- Hair
- long auburn brown
- Eyes
- brown
- Figure
- slim
- Languages
- English
About Patricia
The great barn at Harmondsworth is six hundred years old, close to two hundred feet long and about a mile and a half from a runway, and Patricia thinks every guest should see it once. Slim, 172 cm, her auburn brown hair long, her brown eyes set in a face that photographs far more severely than it behaves in person. Twenty eight, she dresses quietly: a narrow dress, flat leather boots for the lane, a coat with proper pockets because out here you will be outside at some point.
She is thoughtful and a little reserved for the first half hour, after which she is very good company indeed. She notices what you are not saying and she does not make a point of it. She speaks English carefully, choosing her words rather than reaching for the nearest one. She reads history, the dull kind with footnotes, and can make a dispute over a field boundary in 1430 sound like gossip from last week.
The barn opens only on certain days, so an evening usually begins instead with a walk down the High Street past it, then dinner wherever you are staying, which out here usually means a room at Longford or over at Sipson. Harmondsworth is ten minutes from Terminal 5 by road and twenty five on foot from West Drayton station, which is worth knowing if you are travelling light. Patricia travels out from Belgravia, an hour by road, or the Piccadilly line to Terminal 5 and a five minute ride north. Bookings here open at three hours with travel counted inside.
The barn, the village and the lanes between them are set out on the Harmondsworth page. Ask Hester which nights Patricia is out this way and she will send the barn's opening days along with them.
- Harmondsworth, UB7
- 172 cm, slim
- Long auburn brown hair, brown eyes
- Twenty eight, travels out from Belgravia
- Twenty five minutes on foot from West Drayton
Booking her evening
Hester arranges these nights from the hotel, and she will say honestly whether the barn is open on your date rather than letting you find a locked gate. Three hours is the shortest airport booking, travel included.
Her figures are the desk figures, published in full on rates, and the whole arrangement runs in one thread from the first line to the confirmation. Every frame in the hall is reached from the hall.
Also out to the perimeter
An evening with Patricia
Patricia's evenings begin on foot. The High Street at Harmondsworth runs past the church and the barn and ends in a lane, and the whole circuit takes about half an hour at her pace, which is slow. She talks less in that half hour than most companions do in five minutes, and by its end she has generally worked out the sort of night you want without asking. Dinner is at the hotel, at Longford or Sipson, and she is good at the long form of a conversation: she will pick up a remark from the first ten minutes and return to it two hours later, which guests find either uncanny or flattering and usually both. She has no interest in filling time. The evening simply moves at the speed of the village, which is the point of coming out here at all.
Patricia, in her own words
Can I see inside the barn?
Is Harmondsworth convenient for Terminal 5?
You are described as reserved. Is that true?
Where she sits on the roster
Written in afterwards
Nothing is written here for Patricia yet, which out here is usually what discretion looks like. A note appears only when a guest writes one, she agrees to it, and the desk has checked that it reads as a first name, a month and nothing private.