Pictures of Lyme, and a new book!

My little trip to Lyme in February seems so long ago now, and I’m always dreaming about the next time I might be able to go. As I’ve managed to break my hip – not by jumping off the Cobb, I hasten to add – I can’t see I shall be able to go for [...]

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Happy New Year!

Wishing you all a Happy New Year – I hope it is a blessed, peaceful and joyous one! I was in Bath for New Year, and thought you’d like to see a snippet of the wonderful fireworks we saw as we stood by the weir near Pulteney Bridge – thank you to the person who [...]

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Bath in the Sun!

 I was in Bath at the weekend enjoying the sunshine and the soaring temperatures-though it has to be said I didn’t really take the right clothes with me. I just didn’t believe it was going to be quite that hot-scorching is the word! I took a few pictures of the fabulous street entertainers who turn [...]

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Bath at Night, Pulteney Street and Catherine Morland

Here are some photos of Bath at night showing Pulteney Street and Pulteney Bridge accompanied by a short extract from Northanger Abbey. Pulteney Street is where Catherine stays with her friends, the Allens, and apart from the cars looked very much as it does today. I love this exchange between Catherine and her brother James [...]

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A Regency Promenade in Bath at the Jane Austen Festival

I thought you might like to see some photos that were taken of the Jane Austen Festival in Bath. At the start of the festival there is a grand Regency parade where huge numbers of people turn out in their favourite period dress. There were some spectacular outfits, gorgeous bonnets and hats, not to mention [...]

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Dancing with Jane Austen – well, almost!

Recently, P and P Tours celebrated the start of one of their fabulous holidays with an evening party in Bath to be held at the beautiful house that was used in the filming of Persuasion. I was invited to my great delight, but I must admit when I was told there would be dancing I [...]

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Castle Combe, a pretty English village

I had a lovely time in Castle Combe recently, a pretty village some 12 miles out of Bath. We were very lucky on the day I chose to go with my camera – there are often a lot of tourists, but I think the extremely hot weather that day had kept people inside and in [...]

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Castle Combe, a pretty English Village

I had a lovely time in Castle Combe recently, a pretty village some 12 miles out of Bath. We were very lucky on the day I chose to go with my camera – there are often a lot of tourists, but I think the extremely hot weather that day had kept people inside and in [...]

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Persuasion, a film location, and a reading

Last Thursday evening I was invited along by Helen Wilkinson of P and P tours to come and do a reading of Willoughby’s Return to a group she was leading on their Persuasion/Sense and Sensibility tour. Most exciting was the fact that the house I was to be giving my talk in was the very [...]

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Beechen Cliff Part Three!

Here we are at the top of Beechen Cliff at last!My own painting of the scene at Beechen Cliff shows Catherine Morland, Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor admiring the view from the top. Henry is pointing to a view in the distance and probably using terms like ‘backgrounds’ and ‘foregrounds’, ‘middle distances’ and ‘picturesque’ [...]

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