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Today's #shareadvent is 'Carry out a family tradition or start a new one.' Each Christmas we gather new traditions. Maybe this ...

Last day of the holidays and Warmth had the day off. A day of chores and beginning the paint choosing for the newly plastered front room. Wi...

Reviewing this Christmas with mum and we remembered the lovely sale shopping trips we used to have. We had them for many years, pre Warmth, ...

So the blossom has finally arrived and I can post this. I've been waiting. I think you've been waiting too. 'every tree appeare...

'Life she thought, is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake and here is one of them.' Nancy Mitford The ...

'I can't think of any occasion – a tea party even – without seeing an exact picture of how I shall look at it, down to shoes and st...

'These loves were strong and painfully delicious; they occupied all our thoughts but I think we all realised they would be superceded i...

As I walked to work this morning I thought I could now post my Mitford quotation about blossom. However now I'm home - it's cold an...

Do you see your self as a woman who wears diamonds? I love this necklace but I love my diamond studs more. Quite probably as they're tr...

'Friendship is something to be built up carefully, by people with leisure, it is an art, nature does not enter it. ' Nancy Mitford ...

'Do you think about dresses and hats all the time, even in church? I do too .' Nancy Mitford Love in a Cold Climate When re reading ...

Through entering blog world I discovered through these wonderful writers that Penguin are republishing Nancy Mitford's novels. I'...