The Christmas visit
Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
The Christmas season would not be complete without a visit to one of the many places that put on a Christmas event. I prefer the lesser known places, the ones that are not overcrowded and Elizabeth Gaskell’s house fit the bill completely.
I was as excited about this day as a child might be let loose in a toyshop. Mrs Gaskell’s house had been on my ‘go to see list’ for so long and it was definitely worth the wait to go at Christmas….. and it was everything I had hoped for and more.
It is only over the hill from us towards Manchester city centre, not an easy route ploughing through the unknown areas of the suburbs, but we made good time and as our booking was for 11.40 am we missed the worst of the morning rush. To our astonishment we could park on the street right outside the house for 3 hours free and thereby avoiding the usual steep parking charges in Manchester.
The house was beautifully decorated and in addition there were readings from Little Women (Elizabeth Gaskell had close connections with the Louisa May Alcott) and musical entertainment by the Gaskell Singers choir…who were heavenly to listen to.
There is too much for me to write about and too many photos to edit in this post today but I will do a special post about the visit soon….they would welcome the publicity, I am told, and need more visitors to keep them going especially in January….but the sun is shining and my other Christmas tasks are calling me to go and attend to them….. so I will leave you at this point.
I will be posting creating Christmas * day 11 at some time later today.
Meanwhile thank you for all your lovely comments recently, you always have interesting things to say and I love to hear about your Christmas preparations, though I fear mine are well behind most of you.
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How exciting, I can’t wait to read that post. Good luck with your Xmas preparations. (Johhnyjumps up)
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So much to do, so little time!
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It is so sensible of you to do something fun and just for yourselves as a respite from the busyness of Christmas preparations.
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It was such a lovely day, and on the way home, we dropped in on some friends as well and had a good catch-up.
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s house sounds lovely and I shall put it on the list of places to visit, I could deal with the suburbs, but I don’t like city centres any more. We’ve been into Derby twice in the year since we moved here.
My Royal Mail parcel eventually turned up, so daughter’s presents now complete. I went and did a bit of food shopping, finding a ham which had a good sell by date and picked up the Christmas issue of Radio Times – £6.50! Its the only time I buy one. Xx Gill
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I never bother with the Christmas ‘Times’ now as we don’t get to watch TV over Christmas. Although this year we might get an hour to watch something when we are staying at the hotel and there is catch-up TV in the new year.
You sound all set now for Christmas. I have the girls this weekend as it is my younger daughter’s birthday and she is going out. It will be a busy weekend.
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