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I love museums and history and I love the idea of having events at night to show a different side to the artefacts or create an atmosphere in keeping with the subject matter. Last month I visited the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to see their Spellbound collection and I am pleased to tell you that […]

One of the stars of the show on the wedding day has got to be the cake! Traditionally made of fruit cake, today’s wedding cakes are now based on the couple’s own flavour preferences. Some couples choose to have a tower of cupcakes or doughnuts. The wedding colour scheme may be incorporated. Fruit cake was […]

  I couldn’t wait to start this book set in Elizabethan England in the 1590s. I was not disappointed: it was brilliant! The main character Nicholas Shelby is a physician and one day he attends a lecture where a young boy’s body is dissected. Nicholas is convinced the child was murdered but he cannot find […]

On Saturday, we headed to Southampton to go to a wedding blessing ceremony (see yesterday’s #project365 for a pic of Matthew with an owl!) but on the way we decided to stop off at Netley Abbey. It was so beautiful and tranquil. It was also the first time I hadn’t taken out my Nikon and […]

One of the places that we loved in Wales was St Fagans. It made me nostalgic for a place that I remember from school trips as a child so last weekend we headed there: the Weald and Downland Living Museum (or Open Air Museum as I knew it from my childhood) We asked my parents […]