Zara Handley

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Dame Agatha Christie ✍️📚❤️

Castle Cottage 🏡

“Beautiful city! So venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!…” Matthew Arnold about Oxford in “Essays in Criticism, 1865

Jacobean style house is full of unique pieces added on its collection over 350 years. Corner of Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire

“I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds and bowers, Of April, May, of June and July flowers.” Robert Herrick Anglesey Abbey gardens, Cambridgeshire

“Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.” Shakespeare

Makes all troubles of life go away, at least for few minutes❤️ 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🎵

Delightful to watch😍

“Life is an eternal trial and error. But it is better to fail honestly than to succeed in illusion.” J. Galsworthy

“Lovely to see you too first thing in the morning” 🌸

Can’t be missed!👍

“Look up, laugh loud, talk big,keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirit.” W. Hazlitt Good morning ☀️ 📷River Wye, Herefordshire

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Shopfront with 15th century fresco, Madonna holding baby Jesus. Malveno 🇮🇹

Agree👍

Doorway, 1732 Blockeley, Cotswolds

It was it there last time I visited, now must plan to see the Dame. I love all A. Christie books and pleased she is holding my favourite one here📚❤️

“The usual expression was of quiet, listening intelligence; but now and then, on some just occasion for vivid interest or wholesome indignation, a light would shine out, as if some spiritual lamp had been kindled, which glowed behind those expressive orbs.” E. Gaskell

Dancing in the morning rain 🌧️ 🌸

Exton, Rutland 😍

“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.” G.K.Chesterton St. Peter’s and St. Paul’s, Blockeley, Cotswolds Good morning ☀️ 🌧️