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Midlands based family of bookworms exploring the wonderful heritage of the National Trust and their quirky second-hand bookshops as we wander 📚🌿
United Kingdom
Joined June 2023
Introducing Trusty Tomes Bookshop Bingo!! A fun way to show the wonderful variety of @nationaltrust secondhand bookshops and the books you can find in them. We’ll be sharing our first visit on Thursday, which happens to be World Book Day, and we can’t wait 📚
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RT @CharlecoteNT: TODAY (20 March) is the #Spring Equinox - and the days will become longer as we head for the Summer. We've been for a str….
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For our @WorldBookDayUK Day out we're going to be visiting Attingham Park. It's over a year since our last visit (so not recent pics)
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It’s back to ABC for next week’s @WorldBookDayUK and where we go for our special day out - choosing from.A - for ATTINGHAM PARK.B - for BADDESLEY CLINTON.or.C - for CANON’S ASHBY . It’s a touch choice - what would you choose ?
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RT @CharlecoteNT: Making an appearance around the park and grounds in time for #NationalSnowdropDay - signs that Spring is just around the….
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RT @CharlecoteNT: ON THIS DAY - 2 Feb 1853 The new church of St Leonard's was opened. Mary Elizabeth Lucy had the old church demolished an….
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This seems a very petty reason not to go ahead with the proposed release. No 10 blocks beaver release plan as officials view it as ’Tory legacy’
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Natural England furious that years of work has been undone, with minister urged to push policy through
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RT @CharlecoteNT: Charlecote Park will be closed on Monday 6 January as we will be taking down the Christmas decorations and the Christmas….
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🎄Getting into the Festive spirit with visits to Hanbury (serious retro 80s makeover here) at @NTBaddesley. Lots of Christmas books available but we settled for a selection of serious French works (being intellectual types don't you know 🤪)
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RT @CharlecoteNT: SOUND ON for Christmas at Charlecote. The Festive season is here and the doors are open for our Victorian Christmas Party….
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We were very lucky to be given a sneak peek of Christmas @CharlecoteNT last week!! All we’ll say for now is that for anyone planning to visit, you are in for a treat this Christmas. Charlecote reopens the house on this Saturday (November 30th) 🎄
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It’s time for us to start our Autumn visits and checking out what some of local sites are doing. First up, back to @NTPackwood which is all ready for Halloween. We had a great time discovering Fungi in the grounds before calling into the bookshop.
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RT @SUAWaterstones: Happy publication day to Knight Sir Louis and the Cauldron of Chaos by @brothersmcleod!! We’re big fans of the Knight S….
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Today’s Trusty Tomes trip is to @HidcoteNT!! We’ve visited a couple of times this year as we love seeing the gardens change throughout the seasons and naturally have ended up in the bookshop a few times. We’ll share more of our thoughts later this week 🪷
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Based on extensive field work we can exclusively reveal that @nationaltrust 2nd hand bookshops have recycled products on sale. Maybe @RestoreTrustNT should look into such wokey-ness limiting customer choice.
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RT @CeliaRichards0n: For those asking, the ‘fierce backlash last night’ entailed two information requests to our press office. One from the….
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RT @MarkFunnell6: So the ‘woke’-bashing @DailyMailUK lays into @nationaltrust again. For doing a bit more to tackle climate change. To….
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Happy #ReadABookDay!! If you are looking for recommendations for @nationaltrust bookshops to visit then look no further than @CharlecoteNT!! We’ve visited many times over the past couple of years and had many a splendid book from them 📚
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TODAY (6 Sept) is #nationalreadabookday which we think should be a national holiday. All good reading starts with a good bookshop and here's a few we like to get your reading of to a great start. @SizerghCastleNT @AttinghamParkNT @NTPackwood @snowshillmanor
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