The Prince Of Wales website announced that Prince William and Kate had attended their first function since their engagement on Dec. 18th for the Teenage Cancer Trust in Norfolk. They also added several official photos of the event, so I thought I'd pass this one along.
And related to the cold & snowy weather that has been plaguing the UK...there was a fire in the roof of Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, the home of Sir Winston Churchill caused be attempts to warm up frozen exterior pipes. England has had many similar problems during the recent deep freeze weather. Glad we aren't there for a buying trip at the moment!
I want to take this opportunity before things get TOO hectic to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
Happy Boxing Day as well...my sweetie is looking forward to a marathon of English football games from the the Premier league including one with HIS team, Aston Villa playing. So...let's hope they win!!
Then back to work at Time Was Antiques adding quality antiques and collectibles...most with a British accent!
Snow and cold continued in the UK. This is a photo of Buckingham Palace in the snow from another visit a few years ago. It was quite fun to be in London in the snow...in April! My husband was a Coldstream Guard in the Brigade of Guards (also known as the Chilly Rivers) and found the guard at Buck House before they had to bring the guards inside the gate after an incident with an American tourist heckling a fellow guardsman while on duty.
There was something cheering about popping into a pub or tea room for a cuppa with the snow lightly falling. But then, anything is lovely with a cuppa and a Eccles cake!
A countryside snow photo. The roads can be treacherous as few folks have snow tires. But...beautiful. This is on the way through the Cotswolds.
On to another piece of mottoware pottery...which I just love. This is a butter tub or butter dish from Longpark, Torquay with the vernacular motto Elp Yerzel Tu Butter with a tradition sailing ship on the other side that I just added at Time Was Antiques. I recently unearthed a small collection we had gotten in England but had been lost in the warehouse since our move several years ago. Stuff was arriving from a buying trip as we were packing to move & it got repacked, mis labeled and lost! I'd forgotten we had them. How fun is that!!!
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Rain & sunshine today, in the 40s and we are off to the Sequim Community Church Christmas program tonight. So fun! Plan to use up some bananas baking some Banana Streusel muffins in the meantime. Have a great day!
There have been record amounts of snow and cold temperatures in the UK...there was just a BBBc article about travelers being stranded for 8 days in North Yorkshire because of snow...but at least it was at a pub! Pub Stranding.
This little photo is my favorite so far...it's off a BBC web page & doesn't enlarge, but you get the idea.
We got up in April during a buying trip in the Cotswolds one April morning and found 8 inches of snow had fallen overnight. We were lived in snow country at that time, but the rental but the rental car had normal tires. We had a 3 hour drive to the West Midlands to family on our for our next round of antique fairs near Stoke-on-Trent and the trip took up 9 hours. We thought we were going to get stuck going through one of our favorite villages, Snowshill (on a hill amidst winding, narrow roads as it's name implies) but made it through...next obstacle was lots of cars off the road & traffic accidents through the bottleneck bridge of Stratford-on-Avon. Were we glad to get to family in Erdington!!! Had great photos, but my laptop crashed a week late in Worcester & I lost all my photos!
Have a wonderful day, filled with the joys of the holiday season enjoying things you love to do! Cheers...oh, and cuppatea, anyone???
