Special Day's.

                                       This past week we had a very special day,
                                               our eldest son graduated from
                                                         Lincoln University.

                               Lincoln is a beautiful city with lovely old buildings,
                                           the cathedral is a very special place.
                 This is the area outside the cathedral with it's Georgian Terrace.
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Dene & Ellie walking through the arch

to the cathedral

Up the hill is the oldest part of Lincoln,

it feels like you are stepping back in time.

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Inside the cathedral waiting for the service to start.

Such beautiful stained glass windows.

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Dene collecting his Master of Computer Science.

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A happy boy.

I can't believe where those years have gone,

it doesn't seem that long ago when he was a little boy.

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Myself, Dene & Ellie in the castle grounds.

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A proud Dad with Dene.

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                                                       Afterwards in the castle grounds.
                                       This was a very special day & one we will treasure.
                                                              We are so proud of him.
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                                             Last weekend we went to a 1940's weekend at 
                                                      Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire.
                                          Wimpole is a beautiful stately home, farm & estate 
                                               owned & preserved by the National Trust.
                                             We brought a picnic & had a wonderful day.
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                                      Mary chatting away to a lady wearing a 1940's outfit.
                                           This was inside the flower & vegetable garden.
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A beautiful display of pumpkins

& gourds in the Victorian greenhouse.

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Simple white pumpkins.

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Kitty admiring the flowers.

She enjoys smelling so many of them,

quite often we will see a head disappearing in to flower beds.

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They have a large amount of apple trees at Wimpole,

so many of them have been trained 

to fan the old Georgian walls.

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The flower garden, so many beautiful blooms.

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Climbing pumpkins.

Such a pretty idea for our garden next year.

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The twins playing in the orchard.

There were so many different varieties of apples 

& plums.

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Daisy smelling the beautiful old roses.

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A beautiful vintage car & caravan.

The owner said he could not find a caravan 

to go with his car so he made this one.

It was so pretty inside.

I could imagine it as a wonderful little house

for the twins in the garden.

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A traditional Olde English Punch & Judy Show.

These date back to 1640 but this one had a 

2nd world War twist.

Sidney, Mary & Kitty had such fun watching it.

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The home guard meeting Winston Churchill at the Coach House

& stables building.

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Home Farm.

This farm is part of the Wimpole Estate,

 it has some wonderful old thatched barns.

Kitty & Mary are dressed up as milk maids 

& are playing in the old dairy which is 200 years old.

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We were watching a 1940's fashion show,

can you see the couple all dressed up for the day.

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Mary brushing a donkey, she did enjoy it.

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The grand front of Wimpole Hall.

The house was used for filming a Colin Firth film called Easy Vertue not so long ago.

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Such a pretty bureau.

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They had set the house out with glimpses

of the 1940's.

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This is the library, there were so many books in here.

This room & the dinning room were used in filming.

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A beautiful little corner of the study complete

with 40's radio & knitting.

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They had a beautiful chapel inside

Wimpole Hall.

It was all laid out ready for the Harvest festival.

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This was the butler's room & one of the last rooms

to view.

We had such a wonderful day & the weather was glorious.

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 I thought some of my beautiful readers would like my

recipe for Tea Bread.

I have made this for 24 years now, it was one of the first

recipes I did as a married lady & so easy.

 

Soak in a bowl overnight

12 oz's of dried fruit ~ raisins & sultana's.

1/2 pint of strong cold tea.

4 oz's of soft dark brown sugar.

Last time I made it I chopped up some dried apple rings,

they worked well.

 

In the morning add one egg & 8 oz's self raising flour.

Mix until combined & place in a greased & floured loaf tin.

Bake for one hour at 170 c

I double this recipe most of the time,

they last for a week in a tin & I also freeze them.

Serve with butter.

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We are enjoying our new kitten named George,

he came to live with us on Sunday evening & is adorable.

I will post some photo's of him soon.

 

Fondly Michelle

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