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(Various days between Sept 14-20 2024) We did a lot of walking around our Airbnb neighborhood, so I’m going to give gorgeous Chedworth its own separate entry. We’d go touring during the day...
(Monday September 16 2025) Although the Slaughters sound quite gruesome, “slaughter” just means “muddy place” in Old English. Well, now I’m looking at Lower Slaughter’s Wikipedia page, it say...
England #16 - The Motoring Museum in The England Chronicles - September 2024
(Monday September 16, 2024) Why yes, I am stretching Monday over waaaay too many entries! That’s because I have waaaay too many pictures. This entry isn’t even going to include The Slaughters....
(Monday September 16, 2024) We were all over the place on Monday: Sherborne, Upper and Lower Slaughter, Burton-on-the-Water again, and Stow-on-the-Wold. They are all in fairly close proxi...
England #14 - Bourton-on-the-Water and Birdland in The England Chronicles - September 2024
(Sunday September 15, 2024) After Bibury, we headed on to Bourton-on-the-Water, which was about 15 miles up the Fosse Way/A429. The Fosse Way is an ancient Roman road built during the first an...
(Sunday September 15, 2024) We watched a whole lot of YouTube videos before our England trip — mostly of the Lake District since that’s where we thought we were going, but the extra week after...
England #12: We Head Off For the Cotswolds in The England Chronicles - September 2024
(Saturday September 14 2024) I’ve been !!!retired for a week!!! but oddly enough I don’t seem to have finished my England entries yet. Or finished my novel. Or made a fortune with my jew...
It’s the end of era in shiny things
…I am now officially a retired person! Yesterday was my last day at work, which is just so bizarre that I am having trouble processing it, despite having put in my notice four months ago as r...
(Friday September 13, 2024) I left us all hanging in the last entry as I enjoyed a stout and some people-watching at the George & Pilgrams while waiting on Kim to get done with her past li...
(Friday September 13, 2024) Friday was our final day in the Bath/Somerset area before heading to the Cotswolds. We were sad to be nearly done with our first week, but quite excited about the s...
England #9: Last Bath Day Part 2 in The England Chronicles - September 2024
(Thursday September 12, 2024) I see by my travel journal that the first thing we did after touring the Bath Abbey was…get more coffee! Hahahhahhaha!!! YES we had THREE coffee stops that day. I...
England #8: The Second (and final) Bath Day in The England Chronicles - September 2024
(Thursday September 12 2024) This was a full yet low-key day, involving minimal driving and zero getting lost, which was pretty amazing. We discovered a community center called The Hub very clo...
England #7 - More Cheddar, with Caves and Gorge in The England Chronicles - September 2024
(Wednesday, September 11 2024) Continuing from the last entry: After wandering around the village area of the Cheddar Gorge, we toured Gouge’s Cave. It’s a very interesting cavern, full o...
England #6 - Cheddar Time in The England Chronicles - September 2024
(Wednesday September 11 2024) I would like to say that we set off bright and early for Cheddar Gorge, but we did not. We had planned to spend Wednesday in Bath again, and to stay till after d...
(Tuesday, September 10, 2024) Day 3, and we are off to Glastonbury! I love Glastonbury - we’ve gone there on three out of our four trips to England. We only missed the one when Baker B ...
England #4 -second half of the first day in Bath in The England Chronicles - September 2024
(Monday September 9, 2024, Part 2) Which of course is not confusing at all! I’m trying to force my entries to make sense time-wise but I’m sure they won’t, as has been the case with al...
England #3- Spending the day in lovely Bath in The England Chronicles - September 2024
(Monday September 9, 2024) After all the trials we experienced in getting to England and then getting to Bath (and we were very very excited despite the assorted difficulties - once we did f...
England #2 - we make it to Bath at last! in The England Chronicles - September 2024
(Sunday Sept 8, 2024) My previous entry ended with us finally in the sky and on our way to England, hooray! We landed at Heathrow very early in the morning, got through customs and collecte...
England #1: The second time’s a charm in The England Chronicles - September 2024
Not talking about the election. Not yet. I changed my FB profile and background pics to black, which says all I want to say right now. Much much more pleasant to write about the England trip! S...
…then come right back home again. Now that we are kind of back to normal in Post Helene world, it’s time to start making !!!England Entries!!! Cleanup seems to have gone very well here, alth...
oh hai Helene in shiny things
I will be making a whole bunch of England entries soon – it was an amazing trip!!! Well, it was amazing after we…finally got there. Which involved quite a fraught situation. Everything not only ...
...at least it's been less than two years this time in shiny things
So there IS THAT! I am always planning to write more and get caught up with everyone, and I do not know what happens. This is a really good time to do it, though. At least to SAY I’m going to do ...
Yikes!!! in shiny things
Just....yikes. I have not made an entry in OVER TWO YEARS. Of course it’s not like I was making endless bunches of them before that, but still. I have forgotten how to do everything and just spen...
ummmm....... in shiny things
I keep trying to make an entry, especially after I got so fired up by writing more in the last few weeks than I have in the past year or so, but. I just stare at the blank page and then wander aw...
ummmm....... in shiny things
I keep trying to make an entry, especially after I got so fired up by writing more in the last few weeks than I have in the past year or so, but. I just stare at the blank page and then wander aw...
