Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.

and when you see a bold underline item—and it sounds interesting just click and find all manner of articles from all manner of sources to fill you day
View from our B&B window of residential Tintagel—Cornwall
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As you can see above we are still including gifts for the person who has everything.

 

 

13 Twists on Traditional Pumpkin Pie

 

 

The most important decision when planning a family reunion is choosing a date.  Many family reunions are planned at leasst a year in advance, allowing everyone to set aside time and money.  Propose a date or several options to the family members and select the date with the fewest conflicts

 

 

Huge iceberg A-68A nears South Georgia Island

 

 

Old-Time Florida At Its Best: The Immense Charms Of Cedar Key

 

 

A quick look out and about in a part of  Florida you might not know about

 

 

Cedar Key

If you are like me you’ll fall in love with this lovely island  (south of Steinhatchee on the Gulf Coast) as soon as you coss the bridge.  Its small, and sleepy compared to the larger and more hip tourist areas of Florida.  But I can’t be the only one as there are a steady group of visitors that speak a day or the weekend on this laid back bit of older Florida.  But there are a lot of things to do hereKayaking through the Lower Suwannee and Cedar Key National Wildlife Refuge; explore the beaches;  

Stroll the old fashion street, shop at the unique shops and don’t forget to visit the galleries of original art from the town’s own colony—

check it out:  Top Things to Do in Cedar Key, Florida

and here’s a virtual tour to further make your day:

 

Florida’s Historic Places: The Cedar Keys

 

 

 

 

THE SHOW MUST GO ON… OUTSIDE!:  Enjoy an Outdoor Musical Performance

 

 

 

 

 

The Best Online Book Deals

 

 

 

Beltany Stone Circle: Bronze Age Megalithic Site is a Gem in Ireland’s Ancient Landscape

 

Beltany Stone Circle

Nr Stabane, County Donegal

Mysterious stones in Idyllic Surroundings

A muddy climb along a rough path brings you to the exposed summit of Tops Hill, where stands the truly enchanting stone circle of Beltany, a name derived from Baal Tinnr (‘The Fire of Baal’), which suggests that the pagan practice of sun worship was once carried out at this lovely spot.  The circle, comprising of 64 stones but originally far larger is stometimes referred to as ‘the Stonehenge of Donegal’, although archaeology dates it to around 2000 BC making it a good 200 years older than Stonehenge.

Mystical Britain and Ireland

Richard Jones

 

Beltany Stone Circle, Donegal, Ireland – May Magic

 

 

 

How to Look Chic While Bundling Up

 

 

 

I never made it to Port Isaac but it looks beautiful and would love to see it one day.
Oh this is the place were they film Doc. Martin
Piano Tie

 

 

Britain’s currency is the pound sterling.  1 pound equals 100 p (pence).

A quid is same thing as a pound.

Best exchange rates  Credit Cards and ATM machines usually,, with banks not quite as good but OK.

Breau de Change and the like don’t give very good rates while Airports, hotels and shops have high exchange fees!

 

 

Historic Holiday Décor: Vintage Florida

 

Valley Falls State Park
Almost Heaven West Va.  
with walking trails
Lots of pioneer history
home of West Virginia University
and college football as well as the Black Bears baseball
in Kingwood
in Albright
in Clarksburg
WV Italian Heritage Festival

 

 

7 British Government Scandals

 

 

www.swarovski.com

 

 

 

Supernatural Star Jensen Ackles Is Ready for What’s Next. Are You?

 

 

Greshornish House (Scotland):  Set in 10 acres of gardens and wood grounds the house dates from 18th century with 19th century extension..  Residence and hotel once held by the MacLeods–it is also said to have a haunted room.

 

 

As coronavirus cases surge nationwide, health experts sound the alarm in Mass.

 

 

 

Richard III was blue-eyed, blond, but should he have been king? DNA puzzle

 

 

Richard in the North

 

Richard also concentrated his religious paronage in the north.  While he was a major founder of Queens College, Cambridge  (establishing four fellowships whose holdes were to pray fo the good estaes of the founder and his family and for the souls of servants slain at Barnet and Tewkesbury) and a patron of Allhallows Barking by the Tower

his principal benefactions and foundations were north.  From 1474 he was, with his duches, a member of the fraternity of Durham Priory by 1476 he was considered to be the priory’s very special lord, and he was an almost annual visitor to the Cathedral,  oribabkt ib the occasion of one of St. Cuthbert’s two fasts.  He took up the responsibilities of the lord of Middleham  as a patron of Coverham Abbey   generously.  In 1478 he received permission to found and endow two ambitious collegiate chapels, one at Middleham 

with six priests which was establishrf in 1480, the other at Barnard Castle with twelve priests which did not matrialize.  AN altogether more ambitious and gafter he became king.randiose scheme for a charity served by no fewer than 100 priests in York Minster was launched   This probably his intended mausoleum, more than anything due demonstratrs the extent which he identified himself with his adopted region

Richard III and The Princes in the Tower

A.J. Pollard

 

Uncovering the secrets of Coverham

 

Melting Snowman Hot Chocolate Bomb

 

 

 

Paperback How Not to Become a Crotchety Old Man Book

 

How Not to Become a Crotchety Old Man

 

 

 

 

 

The St. George Taveran on Belgravia Road  in London is a Victorian PUb and one of the first cabaret saloons in the city.

 

 

Orlando International Airport was nation’s second busiest over the weekend

 

 

GAY KEY WEST EVENTS CALENDAR

 

Key West Has Long Been a Site for Gay visitors and its Gay population has been established for many years.

 

I spent many vacations in Key West……

The Key West Citizen on 3/10/98 had the followinTitle for an article

The changing face of the gay tourist.

with a follow-up

A little grayer, a little less flamboyant, but with a lot more money to spend.

 

I have wander to other areas to spend my time and haven’t been there since 2006 and don’t know what the gay scene in Key West  is any more– so thought I  would check the clubs I remember:

 

First I checked for the 801 featured in the Ads  here and I  see they are keepin on:  OPEN 7 DAYS NOON-4:00AM!  and it has occupied the same coral-pink building for more than three decades

 

La Te Da (By George Piano Bar, Terrace Bar, Crystal Room) – restaurant/mixed bar

This is another one I remember but now it’s a laid-back, upscale Mixed gay-straight resort  I remember it as all gay resort—one of the major ones in the town.

 

I didn’t find any others that rang a bell but I do se that though some I knew are no longer there—-I do see that there is still an active tourist destination for the gay tourist and so though I don’t  find many that ring a bell it’s been 14 years since I was last there and I apologize that I may have forgotten some that are still there.

 

 

Gay Key West: your essential guide to the best gay bars, clubs, beaches and hotels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why Palm Beach Is Becoming a New Mecca for Blue-Chip Art

 

 

 

Zoo Lights Miami – Select Nights

 

Africa

 

 

Geographically, Africa is one of the oldest countinents on earth, comprised of the deserts (the Sahara,  Kalahari,  and Namib) 

vast rain forests, numerous lakes and major rivers (inclding the Nigerand Zambezi) , tall mountains and savannahs, the world’s largest river, the Nile, runs from Lake Victoria

 in Uganda   at its southern end, through Sudan, into Egypt and north to the Mediterranean sea.

The New Book of Goddesses & Heroines

Patricia Monaghan

 

Ancient Egypt

 

 

THE LONDON FIVER – FIVE LONDON CHRISTMAS MOVIES

 

 

The Hawiian Islands are a string of islands born from volcanic eruption.  It is estimated that they were discovered by the Polynesians around AD 400 and by 1200 had been settled by the desencents of the same people.

 

 

BRIT HISTORY: THE NAZI OCCUPATION OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS

 

 

Motion Sensor Howling Wolf Sculpture

 

Motion Sensor Howling Wolf Sculpture

CHRISTMAS AT WINDSOR CASTLE

 

 

 

 

 

Relaxing Warwickshire stay with championship golf 

 

 

 

 

Archaeologists Just Restored An Ancient Egyptian Temple To What It Looked Like 2,000 Years Ago

 

 

 

Scriptoria in early monestaries were the site of learning and preservation of manuscripts.  Here these were translated, copied and even illuminated with artistic illustrations to highlight their contents.  It is said that until the rise of the universities, the monesteries’ librarys were the most important in the western world.

 

 

 

 

Our 87 Best Thanksgiving Cocktails and Drink Recipes

 

 

 

 

Grow Your Own Oyster Mushrooms

 

Grow Your Own Oyster Mushrooms

 

 

 

Antarctica’s blue whales return to South Georgia a century after they were nearly wiped out

 

 

——and the next day we have white hair and whiskers!!!!!

 

 

 

 

American Music Awards 2020: Fashion—Live From the Red Carpet

 

 

 

Llewellyn’s 2021 Witches’ Datebook

 

 

 

The Best Ski Resorts in the U.S. and Canada: 2020 Readers’ Choice Awards

 

 

All three pictures out and about Cornwall–main/first and this one

 

 

 

World Coins from History?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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