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Another gorgeous festive display from @waddesdonma

Another gorgeous festive display from @waddesdonmanor_nt this year 😍🎄✨ You are always guaranteed to be in for a treat! This year’s theme is a mix of Alice in Wonderland, The Snow Queen and Peter Pan. The Mad Hatters tea party in the dining room was my favourite I think 🥰

Can you spot Tinkerbell?

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Winter has officially arrived 😍 We’ve woken u

Winter has officially arrived 😍 We’ve woken up to a blanket of snow!

Open a handful of days this festive season - inclu

Open a handful of days this festive season - including this weekend - the stunning @harlaxton_manor is one to add to your list ❤️🎄

What would you guess this magnificent building is? Would you guess that it is now a college?

Steeped in unique architectural history, Harlaxton Manor was constructed in 1831 by wealthy Nottinghamshire businessman, Gregory Gregory. It sits in 300 acres of beautiful Lincolnshire parkland and is now opening seasonally for visitors to come and enjoy ❤️ It is closed to the public the rest of the year as it is busy hosting students as Harlaxton College, the University of Evansville’s study abroad centre. So if you’re attending uni in Evansville, Indiana, you’ll have the option to spend a semester calling this Victorian gem home! I’m quite envious ☺️

📸’s I took from a previous Christmas display. Hoping to find time to visit and see just how gorgeous they are this year 😍

Autumnal cosiness here in England doesn’t get mu

Autumnal cosiness here in England doesn’t get much better than lingering around a roaring fire with a glass of your drink of choice in hand. Renowned the world over, the great British pub is not just a place to come for a drink. It’s also a unique social centre, very often the focus of community life in villages, towns and cities throughout the length and breadth of the country.

Yet apparently, the great British pub actually started life as a great Italian wine bar, and dates back almost 2,000 years.

It was an invading Roman army that first brought Roman roads, Roman towns and Roman pubs known as tabernae to these shores in 43 AD. Such tabernae, or shops that sold wine, were quickly built alongside Roman roads and in towns to help quench the thirst of the Roman soldiers. It was ale however, that was the native British brew, and it appears that these tabernae quickly adapted to provide the locals with their favourite tipple, with the word eventually being corrupted to tavern.

These taverns or alehouses not only survived but continued to adapt to an ever changing clientele, through invading Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings. In around 970 AD the Anglo-Saxon king, King Edgar, even attempted to limit the number of alehouses in any one village. He is also said to have been responsible for introducing a drinking measure known as ‘the peg’ as a means of controlling the amount of alcohol an individual could consume, hence the expression “to take (someone) down a peg”.

By 1577 it is estimated that there were some 17,000 alehouses, 2,000 inns and 400 taverns throughout England and Wales. Taking into account the population of the period, that would equate to around one pub for every 200 persons. To put that into context, that same ratio today would be approximately one pub for every 1,000 persons … 😳

📍The Falkland Arms | Great Tew, Oxfordshire @falklandarms_great_tew

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scen

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.” - Sylvia Plath

Anybody want to buy a castle in Scotland with lots of land and escape with me? 😂 No amount of time in Scotland is ever enough, a visit once a year most certainly isn’t. There’s such an abundance of beauty and history to absorb that leaves you longing to return and scratch the surface that little bit more.

Itinerary coming soon.

8 seconds of calm from a misty autumnal morning in

8 seconds of calm from a misty autumnal morning in Castle Combe ✨

This is The Manor House, a fantastic hotel and also home to a Michelin starred restaurant. One for the wish list.

A little love letter to the Lake District in autum

A little love letter to the Lake District in autumn 🍂 Isn’t she lovely?!

Third attempt at uploading this reel now, Instagram is obliterating quality today 😂 Third time lucky? 🤔🤞Or perhaps you’ll just have to imagine this video in its original 4k format instead 🙈

Sometimes, the best plan is having no plan. It giv

Sometimes, the best plan is having no plan. It gives you the space to be free, to feel, to live in the moment and enjoy simply what is.

That said, would you like the itinerary of where we visited on this no plan excursion across Scotland?

I’ve been hiding away in Scotland. The other wee

I’ve been hiding away in Scotland. The other week we hopped in the van and drove north with no particular itinerary in mind, opting to take each day as it came. Many of the locations we stopped in didn’t even have phone reception, it was glorious. A much needed break.

That said, I have a content backlog bigger than I know what to do with from the last month 🙈 So I’ll simply start with a few snapshots from our time in Scotland.

I hope you are all safe and well ❤️

Sending out lots of love, kindness, empathy, compassion and hope into a world which I think currently needs it more than ever xx

Wearing @sondeflor Woollen Coat

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