PRETTY LITTLE ENGLAND ..........

Our daughter lives in Stamford, Lincolnshire. One of the most beautiful, fully preserved Georgian towns. They used to live in Crouch End, London but, to buy anything bigger than a flat was in the triple millions so they chose Stamford. Crouch End is an amazing place to live when single, then a couple but, when children come along, the countryside sometimes beckons { especially the price of property ! }. I remember when I worked in London ..... there was such a buzz, amazing shops, restaurants, clubs, so much to do and see and, of course , the history, which was taken for granted when you were there every day. My sister lived in Cambridge when she was first married as her husband was doing his PhD there and they lived in an old cottage which belonged to the college. She worked in London and she walked past the Bridge of Sighs and all of the stunning colleges every day on her way to the station. She always said how people from all over the world would save to visit or only be able to look at photographs but she lived amongst it all. I lived in London for a while and I learned a lot in my twenties but, when I married and had children, we moved to Hertfordshire.  When we had children, we would travel all over the UK ..... Cornwall, Devon, Wales, the South Coast, Scotland to name but a few places. Then, when our children were choosing Universities, we visited quite a few cities, Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham, Liverpool, Manchester, some of which we hadn't been to before. But, when our daughter moved to Stamford, I realised the Midlands had gone completely under the radar. It is so pretty. So many beautiful villages, very much like The Cotswolds and, I think the houses are built of Lincolnshire Limestone..... that pretty honey coloured stone.  We see a great deal of our children and grandchildren and we all went to visit her yesterday and had lunch in the pub in the above photograph. I had to take a photo of the rose and the thatched roof. It looked stunning, the weather making everything look even prettier, although, photographs never seem to capture how lovely these things look somehow. Do you find that ? 

Enjoy the beautiful weather ..... we have a week or more of it.

My New Years Resolution of posting more often doesn't seem to be working !!! I will try harder. 

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