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Lake District Holiday - Day 7 from LissaT ^Pro 30 days old

Friday, October 2nd The last day. (Sigh!) Still it is nice to see the cats and the Aged Parent again. We decided to visit Holker Hall. It was raining ...

Lake District Holiday - Day 4 from LissaT ^Pro 34 days old

Tuesday, September 29th Joe had expressed a desire to do some shopping so we stopped in Bowness. I bought a new memory card for my camera - the 128MB ...

Lake District Holiday - Day 3 from LissaT ^Pro 35 days old

[ ... ] about the history of the house sitting in a sheltered corner of the garden with views across to Skiddaw. As more people arrived she started over ...

Wow! from LissaT ^Pro 45 days old

Oh, dear, I was late to work today - not badly - just a few minutes and I did have an excellent excuse. I was just leaving the house when Kevin Leahy, ...

Haddon Hall from LissaT ^Pro 85 days old

I first went to Haddon Hall on a school trip in July 1965. Liz was also on that visit. We were ten. I still have the original guide book from that visit. I ...

Unexpected Day Out from LissaT ^Pro 88 days old

I promised Jess another day out, but it seemed Joel couldn't manage Monday or Tuesday, Jess couldn't do Wednesday and I couldn't do Thursday or Friday. ...

Uncle Alf? from LissaT ^Pro 94 days old

Today is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, one of Lincolnshire's most famous sons. The statue outside Lincoln Cathedral When ...

A Grand Day Out from LissaT ^Pro 99 days old

We had planned it for Wednesday, but the forecast (correct in this instance) was so bad that we thought that on the whole we wouldn't go. I'm all in ...

Village Talks from LissaT ^Pro 144 days old

This evening Joe and I went to an interesting talk "What Science Can Tell Us About Stow" by Dr Belinda Colston which was organised by Friends of Stow ...

Churches Festival 2 from LissaT ^Pro 174 days old

[ ... ] the church history leaflet to which I added some new pictures spread through the text, and Paul added an appeal for the church roof restoration ...