There’s a luscious quote in this post from Exploring London!
As you may have realised (the new £10 banknote anyone?), this month marks 200 years since the death of Jane Austen in Winchester on 18th July, 1817, so to mark the occasion, we’re looking at …
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~ my everyday life through the lens of my camera ~
Helping Improve Lives
Vintage Inspired Paper Crafts & Digital Design
I make faces.
A journey through life in Southwest France
Historical Fiction with a French Flavour
It isn't being John Malkovich, but it is being me
Dispatches from the Crossroads of Literature and Gastronomy
Daily Reflections from My Home and Garden
The Power of Story
Unlocking the Door to Your Past
Not just a blog, a philosophy
The #1 budget recipe website
Try, try, try as I might and using all my fingers I could not find 10 sites where Jane stayed unless you count the first floor and the second floor and both visits to No 10 .lol
xxx Massive Hugs xxx
Confused of Flintshire.
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Look carefully at the title! xxxHugsxxx
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Oops, No 1 of ten. I think my age is taking away my ability to read properly. So sorry Sarah.
xxx Begging Forgiveness Hugs xxx
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Nothing to forgive! It happens to me with or without cataracts so I guess it must be age. xx
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I liked the link to the reconstruction of the Reynolds exhibition. They have done that well. Always good to see more commemorative plaques too.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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They have indeed. x
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Now I know Jane found dirt and confusion promising I’m not going to feel so guilty about my disinclination to spend hours on housework!
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Just think if we’d known this quote before we wouldn’t have spent decades feeling guilty! I have a blackboard in a prominent place in the kitchen quoting Rose Macaulay: ‘A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.’
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Oh, I like that – a good quote worth remembering.
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In one of my previous flats I stencilled it on the wall of my bathroom!
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