Sorry I haven't been around for a week or so but I haven't been well and really haven't felt like sitting at the computer for long - I've just been lying around and taking it easy with a good book. I'm still not feeling 100% yet but yesterday we decided it would be good to be out and about so we visited Little Moreton Hall, just over the border from us in Cheshire, for their Christmas Festivities.
We were met by a lady with warm spiced apple juice (brandy optional) and it was needed as it was very cold. A jester entertained us as we stood in the courtyard drinking the apple juice and we then moved into the Hall where a table groaning with food was waiting by a log fire and the musicians were entertaining with tinkling bells.
We had a wander around the rest of the rooms whilst we waited for the musical performance by Hautbois which was excellent and very informative as to the origin of Christmas carols which were originally dances and not religious songs at all.
Did I mention that it was very cold?
After this I was ready to go home as it was the first time out for a few days except for visits to the post office and sorting office - would you believe that I was out at the post office posting cards and when I got back I'd missed a postal delivery and had to wait to retrieve it from the sorting office. I was only out for an hour! Oh, well.
Many apologies for not leaving many comments on your blogs recently, I think I have managed a few, I have been reading and enjoying though. I completely missed Five on Friday too! Hope to be back to normal soon.
I hope you will be feeling much better soon Rosie. Little Moreton Hall is still on my list.. it's a gem.
ReplyDeleteThank you Jessica - Little Moreton is a wonderful visit in any season but Christmas and Midsummer it is extra special:)
DeleteHope you're feeling better now. How I envy you visiting a place like Little Moreton. I would have loved the music.
ReplyDeleteThe music was wonderful, Janet I know you'd have loved it all:)
DeleteThis looks like an amazing place to visit. I hope you're feeling better. Take care, Pat xx
ReplyDeleteThank you, feeling a bit better now thankyou:)
DeleteLittle Moreton Hall never ceases to amaze, even though I've only ever seen it in photographs. It sounds like an ideal festive gathering.
ReplyDeleteThey do 'festive' well at Little Moreton - the building just lends itself to it - it's always wonderful at this time of year:)
DeleteWhat a lovely day out :) I hope you feel better soon.
ReplyDeleteThanks Louise, getting a bit better each day:)
DeleteSo sorry to hear that you have been unwell Rosie and isn't it sods law that when you pop out a delivery arrives!!! Your day out looks wonderfully festive and I hope that it managed to lift your spirits. I am longing for cold weather. It has been damp and mild for so long here. I am still in T shirts! I hope that you recover well in the run up to Christmas and the New Year. x
ReplyDeleteThanks, Simone I'm begining to feel a little kore festive now. It was one of those weeks last week, as well aas missing the delivery, I tried to take a book back to the library as it was due back the next day and when I got there they had 'closed for refurbishment'! Had to renew again on line just so as not to get a fine:)
DeleteSorry you've been unwell Rosie. Hope you will be better soon. This place looks wonderfully picturesque at Christmas!!! I did know that about some Christmas Carolyn as I taught my year 5's Branle d'official which is a tudor dance whose tune is now Ding Ding Merrily on High!!!Xx
ReplyDeleteThank you Kezzie - i find the history of the origins of the festive season as we know it now fascinating:)
DeleteThere's too much to do to feel I'll at this time of year, I do hope you feel better now. How nice to visit Little Moreton Hall at Christmas! Could you eat the food or was is just for show? Looks lovely and festive. :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Karen - I'm almost caught up now, just a couple of journeys to make to deliver parcels. The food was all fake on the tables but they had made a few festive items you could try mostly marchpane (or marzipan) nibbles:)
DeleteHow wonderful to see it all decorated! We visited there in September and it was fabulous, but I am sure that it is even more fabulous at Christmas! Take care of yourself, I hope that you are much better again very soon. Hugs! xx
ReplyDeleteThanks, Amy feeling a bit better now. As you know from your visit the hall just lends itself to seasonal decorations - it is wonderful at Christmas:)
DeleteThis amazing Little Moreton Hall is like a place from a fairy tale or legend. My friend from http://www.essay-writer.club/ told me his biggest dream is to visit this place and I fully agree with him cause this place is really worth visiting!
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting - the Hall does photograph well:)
DeleteLooks lovely. Just the right sort of thing to get into the seasonal mood. I could do with a day out like that!
ReplyDeleteIt was a lovely afternoon out and just right to get into a festive spirit:)
DeleteHope you are feeling better Rosie. Your day out looked lovely. Isn't it always the way with deliveries, the minute you pop to the loo they ring the bell and run away like ninjas!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Suzie - so true also the phone rings when you have just wet your hair to wash it and when you get there it is a computer message about PPI, new boilers or solar panels, grr:)
DeleteLittle Moreton Hall looks very festive and I'm sure the spiced apple juice was very welcome! I do like these seasonal history/old customs type events in a beautiful historic building although this year we haven't been able to get to any similar due to bad weather and wanting just to stay put at home for now preparing the house for Christmas. I hope you're feeling a lot better. All the best.
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