Once was December...

[byslantedlight]

...and I've been wanting to post all through, and taking photos and starting posts and somehow it's just not happened - ack! So even though I have something that I really really really have to do today, I'm going to post here as well! Cos this definitely feels like left-overs!

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[gvenanne]

Wow! So many beautiful photographs of beautiful places! They don't even need snow to be beautiful at this time of year) Such a wonderful colors on your walk, really I'm glad there is no snow so I can see all of them))
And you did wonderful job with your place! With all the books and boxes and a violin and this fabulous trunk! A place full of impressions and interesting to examine and homey at once) Nice place to be. Hope you'll catch up with your plans during holidays ;)

And I thought too your bath looked like Jupiter or something *g*

[byslantedlight]

Winter really has its own beauty, doesn't it, snow or no snow! (That said, I'm a bit jealous that other parts of England had snow last night, and we just had lots of wind and rain... *sighs sadly*)

And thank you! It all looks better from far away in photos than it does close up, and I know where all the messy bits still are, but it's getting there! It's just so nice to have everything out, and where I can pick it up if I want to!

Yes! My bath did look like another planet! That's exactly what I thought - I loved it! *g*

[heliophile_oxon]

What beautiful photos of Anglesey Abbey - absolutely lovely! Are the cherry family closely related to birch, then??? The bark does look similar. Silviculturist required! *g*

And as for the bath bomb photos ... wow! How could you bear to get out? I think I would stay in for hours, just topping up on the hot water a bit from time to time *g* I do wonder, though, about things like bath bombs - don't you feel as if you still have stuff on your skin afterwards, or do you always finish off with a quick shower? I would have imagined that they might leave you feeling a bit soapy otherwise? But oh what beautiful patterns and swirls and sparkles ... makes me wish I could have clothes scarves! silk scarves that look like that, that's what I want! *g*

Your place is looking so perfect and cosy, and how wonderful to be able to sort your stuff and have shelves for (most of) it at last!

[byslantedlight]

It doesn't look like the Tibetan Cherry is related to the birch, though it's also called the birch-bark tree, according to RHS... I don't know, I'm not especially good on plants - I just know I like it! *g*

And hee - it was a fun bath! It was more how I could bear to get in though, cos it did all that fizzing first up! I tend to finish off with a shower afterwards anyway, though I think the point of them is that they're moisturising and/or glittering on purpose - not soapy though. And yes! I would love clothes made out of fabric that looked like that! *g*

It's so nice to be able to get things out if I want to - hurrah for a home! *g*

[dollidaydream]

Your Christmas home looks lovely - festive and cosy. I'm sorry about the face-ache. Hope it gets better soon. I'm pretty sure I've been to Barrington Court. NT is awesome at this time of year, although I think when I was there it was the height of summer.

[byslantedlight]

Thank you! Face-ache is gradually kind of getting better - well, it's not as killer any more!

I was so chuffed that more NT places were open over Christmas/winter, and I had plans to visit all the ones I could around here, only I'd rather over-estimated my time with everything else happening, so it was just Barrington Court in the end. Which was lovely!

[dollidaydream]

We were members of NT a couple of years back but I didn't renew the membership because so many places are closed in winter. It's nice to hear that they are opening more over Christmas. I love NT places over Christmas. There's that place in Cornwall (Cotehele, I think) with the garlands that many people consider to be the start of Christmas when they are raised.

[milomaus]

Oh, happy pictures, and busy times, and your place looks so cosy!

Too bad about the aches, I cross my fingers that it'll go away very soon!
Thanks so much for sharing all these beautiful pics!

I hate bathing, I have no patience for it, even with a book and music and stuff. Taking a shower, be done, do something else, that's my way.

[byslantedlight]

I'm usually a take-a-shower girl (I'd rather live without a bath than without a shower) but just sometimes it's kind of nice to soak in deep hot water! Especially if it smells nice... *g*

There were definitely happy and busy times - but my place currently has books all over the floor as I try to work out what order to put them in on my shelves so that I can find things! I think it'll have to be the Dewey decimal system, sort of, cos that's what I grew up with, so I'd sort of know where everything logically went... but in the mean time it's not so cosy right now! Maybe if I take my hot water bottle to bed now... *g*

[snailbones]

Your new nest looks absolutely gorgeous, all books and wood and comfy sofas... just perfect.

I'm sorry you've got face/mouth ache - I hope it goes away on its own because that's so miserable... fingers crossed you're okay.

[byslantedlight]

My face-ache is intermittent, but getting more intermittent - lousy timing for Christmas day though. Hey-ho! Now if I can just put away the books I've scattered over every surface whilst I try to work out what order they go in, I might get back to a cosy gorgeous perfect place.... *g*