Showing posts with label château. Show all posts
Showing posts with label château. Show all posts
Wednesday, 28 October 2026

Les Bouquinistes: concours de l'Halloween

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Petite annonce concernant l'Halloween prise sur la page Facebook des Bouquinistes : la librairie organise un concours de déguisements. ...
Wednesday, 23 September 2026

Le trébuchet de Warwick

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J'ai pris cette photo à  Warwick Castle . C'est bien entendu un trébuchet , une machine de guerre médiévale qui est toujours très im...
Thursday, 10 September 2026

The Earl of Warwick's Revolver (Signature Weapon)

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This post is part of my  Signature Weapons series and is actually about a real signature weapon. So we went to  Warwick Castle  during our ...
Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Un paon au château

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 J'ai pris cette photo au  Warwick Castle . Il y a des paons sur le terrain. Enfin, il y avait celui-ci. Pour une raison quelconque, dan...
Friday, 4 September 2026

A Bookmark from Warwick Castle

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Some people buy collect stamps, spoons, wine bottles, dolls, sports cards, cars, etc. I collect bookmarks. Not only because I am a hopeless ...
Sunday, 28 June 2026

Dracula (a memory)

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Well, the solstice is done and dusted, so days are slowly getting shorter, hopefully the heatwave should be over soon and this is thus time ...
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Monday, 6 October 2025

Dracula climbing up a wall

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 For today's countdown to Halloween post, a bit more about Count Dracula . Again. Be warned: I am obsessed about the novel  (if you have...
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Wednesday, 18 June 2025

York vu de haut

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 Photo prise à  York , du haut de la Clifford's Tower . On peut voir  York Minster  au loin. Je n'ai pas assez partagé des photos de...
Wednesday, 2 October 2024

The Haunted Castle

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 For today's countdown to Halloween post, I wanted to share a game I bought for Wolfie during one of his schools' fayres last summer...
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Wednesday, 13 March 2024

NOT Dracula's Castle

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I know we are a long way from Halloween, but what the heck. I'm also a fan of Dracula , my all-time favourite horror novel. I saw this m...
Sunday, 16 April 2023

Wooden Fortress

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There is a petting zoo our family often goes to, I blogged a few times about it. It has the nicest play areas. AMong them, a wooden fortress...
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Thursday, 27 October 2022

About Dracula's Castle

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For today's countdown to Halloween post, yet another trip down nostalgia lane. My longtime readers may remember that I sometimes blog ab...
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Saturday, 14 August 2021

To see Tintagel

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As some of my readers may know, I am a medievalist by trade, which means I have a PhD in medieval literature. I am also a specialist of Arth...
Saturday, 20 March 2021

Un château de cartons

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Wolfie a récemment développé une obsession: il veut que l'on construise un château des boîtes de carton. L'ennui, c'est qu'i...
Tuesday, 2 March 2021

"Notre" fort de neige

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C'est peut-être le printemps ici, mais au Québec, c'est toujours l'hiver. Il a neigé et on annonce encore quelques bordées le re...
Monday, 1 March 2021

The Welsh Flag and me

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Today is the first of March and it is also the Feast of Saint David , also the patron saint of Wales . It is therefore Wales' National ...
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Sunday, 17 January 2021

Belsay Castle in the snow

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This is a picture of Belsay Castle near Belsay Hall which I found on the Facebook page of English Heritage . And I took it for the blog. I...
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Wednesday, 23 December 2020

A castle for Christmas

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Well, I don't mean living or buying a castle, or receiving one as a present, but I thought it would be cool one day to celebrate Christm...
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Friday, 20 November 2020

The Old Playmobil Castle

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Last weekend, Wolfie decided that he wanted to build his old Playmobil castle. I say old, because for a toy, it is indeed quite old: my son...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2020

The Tapestried Chamber

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 For today's countdown to Halloween reading suggestion, a classic ghost story from Sir Walter Scott : The Tapestried Chamber . I have pl...
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