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23rd December #3goodthings 1. Feel so much better 2. Visit with the littles who growing too fast 3. Ironing all done ( thank you Nick 😘) Yours?

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22nd December #3goodthings 1. Call to family in New Zealand 2. Visiting the wife of our friend who died recently. So good to see her 3. Thoroughly enjoyed ‘An Inspector Calls’ Yours?

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Rooms that took me back years with shiny chains that made a spider across the ceiling, home made chains from newspaper and an example of how the house supported evacuees #sundaystroll Dyrham Park

The Lord of Misrule together with some amazing paper folding #sundaystroll Dyrham Park

It was Christmas inside the house. You travelled through different eras but de orated teees were the theme throughout #sundaystroll Dyrham Park

21st December #3goodthings 1. Good to get out for a walk at Dyrham Park - National Trust 2. Treated ourselves to some mince pies 3. Homemade chilli for supper Yours?

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20th December #3goodthings 1. All wrapping done 2. The coffee machine was broken but we still got excellent service at Guild of Dough 3. Lovely Turkish omelette for lunch with sucuk to help my head Yours?

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19th December #3goodthings 1. Cheated by going in the car but got to the park for coffee 2. Watched ‘Strangers on a Train’ 3. Quiet snuggly evening Yours?

We’ve had a very busy week with Christmas shopping and our staff do. I’ve also picked up a cold so our #FridayPint is at home today. I’m sharing a clip from Stourhead illuminations that we went to yesterday. Make sure you have the volume up nice and loud. Have a wonderful weekend. 

Not up to the walk today so we cheated & came in the car. Feels quite bare #parkcoffee

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18th December #3goodthings 1. Last day of Listening Ear chats 2. Clean house 3. Restful day fighting snuffles Yours?

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17th December #3goodthings 1. Lovely ‘Staff Do’ day 2. Different pie for lunch at the Ardagh - sweet potato, garlic, mushroom & blue cheese 3. Fabulous illuminations at Stourhead Yours?

Toilet stop & lots of animals of different makes! #littleadventures25 Crockerton

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16th December #3goodthings 1. Christmas Shopping Day 2. Delicious lunch 3. I got everything on Nick’s list Yours?

With thanks to @bethkempton.bsky.social here is the diary of my day Christmas shopping. It's a tradition! open.substack.com/pub/thegentl...?

Day 16 of '24 Days of Small Stories' has us keeping warm! open.substack.com/pub/ourlittl...? #getoutside #adventcalendar #wellbeinginwinter #writersofig #noediting #stillwriting #dailyinspiration

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15th December #3goodthings 1. Roasts for supper 2. Loved listening to Calm Christmas with Beth Kempton 3. Wrote a few more Small Stories Yours?

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14th December #3goodthings 1. Magical visit to Basildon Park 2. Home safe and sound ( thank you Nick 💕) 3. Lights all twinkling again Yours?

A few more shots from our walk around the house #littleadventures25 Basildon Park

I became a bit obsessed with the shoes! I didn’t take a photo of the clogs but did know the ballet. The room volunteer was amazed & told of the couple of hundred visitors, I was the only one who knew it! Which is it? #littleadventures25 Basildon Park

Many National Trust properties run a competition through the house. Today you had to guess the ballet. A clue came in the music being played & key items. Which are these two? #littleadventures25 Basildon Park

The house always goes over the top with trees & fireplace decorations #littleadventures25 Basildon Park

This is our third Christmas visit to this house & they have all been amazing. This year’s theme ‘The Enchantment of Ballet’ did not disappoint. Stand by for shoes, trees & sparkle #littleadventures25 Basildon Park

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13th December #3goodthings 1. Interesting trip to St Mary the Virgin with a wrought iron grave 2. Gillingham FC didn’t lose 3. Relaxing evening with supper in the hotel Yours?

St Mary the Virgin A few of the items you expect in these posts! #littleadventures25

St Mary the Virgin The wooden pulpit and screen both thought to be of the same century. Dickens' bought a country retreat here and his daughter, Kate, married here in July 1860 #littleadventures25

THE DOOR is pretty amazing ‘Charmingly carved, the weighty south door I'd come to see is late-fourteenth or early fifteenth century and decorated by traceried panels with regularly positioned flowerheads and a few human faces.’ #littleadventures25

Our church from ‘Forgotten Churches’ by Luke Shergold today wasn’t Mary the Virgin in Higham. Chosen for its door! #littleadventures25

After lovely breakfast we are off to see the church in Dickens ‘Great Expectations’ #littleadventures25

12th December #3goodthings 1. Good trip to Kent 2. Lovely time at Chartwell with all the Christmas displays 3. French restaurant for supper Yours?

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The grounds and gardens were quiet and sleeping. They had obviously been cut back and prepared for the winter #littleadventures25 Chartwell

My bestie @Janet_bremner loves a kitchen & this one was dedicated to chickens and chicks #littleadventures25

This is my favourite room whenever we visit. It is the dining room that has seen some amazing diners, holding conversations that may have changed the world. This was dedicated to butterflies which were ‘flying’ across the ceiling! #littleadventures25 Chartwell

A room celebrating horses with rosettes & a horse-shaped frame #littleadventures25

The aquarium was fabulous with ‘moving water’ on the walls across the bottom of stairs into a small passageway #littleadventures25

As those of you who know me well, this is my favourite Nation Trust property. They have done an amazing job with their Christmas display. The theme was the animals and creatures in Winston Churchill’s life. #littleadventures25

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11th December #3goodthings 1. Lunch with my bestie Janet 2. Thoroughly enjoyed the Winter Writing Circle session 3. Bags all packed for our trip to watch our last game for 2025 Yours?