I have a fondness for big, beautiful houses, the kind of houses the characters in Jane Austen’s novels live in, the kind we see in the film adaptations. My dream is to one day have such a house...
You know when you like something so much you can’t stop talking about it and you just want everyone else to like it too? Well that’s pretty much how it is with me and Jane Austen. If you ...
…but they were wrong. A short while ago I posted the trailer to ITV’s new miniseries about the Titanic, and last night I finished watching that same series. Consisting of four 45 minutes ...
Today I want to write something which really has nothing whatsoever to do with Jane Austen or any of the other subjects I usually write about here. Today I want to write about my sister. There can b...
There is a time for every thing – a time for balls and plays, and a time for work. ~Northanger Abbey I take some comfort in these words of Mrs Morland’s from Northanger Abbey now when all...
Didn’t I say I would get better at writing more frequently…? Well, seems I have not… Once again I will try to defend my case by saying how very busy I’ve been. And this being ...
A long time ago I said I would do a post about my most recent ballgown, the one I made for year 2011′s Jane Austen festival. Well, took me some time to get around to posting it. But I felt I sh...
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear…! It’s been shockingly long since I updated my blog! I am heartily ashamed of myself! In my defence though I have been very busy lately. Right now I am both work...
A little while back I read somewhere a new theory about Jane Austen’s death. What she can have died of and why and so on. They keep coming up with new theories for this it seams! Anyway, that r...
Yet another year gone past and here we stand again, at the beginning of a new one, looking ahead, wondering what this year will contain! Personally I hope this year will, for me, include lots of wond...
I told you I was over in England (again!) a couple of weeks ago, visiting some good friends. These good friends live not far from a certain big house, a big grand house that goes by the name Belton H...
Those who have been following my blog for some time know that I am a huge fan of Downton Abbey. I LOVE Downton Abbey!! And like so many others I was quite upset when the first season ended. It ended ...
Sorry about the horrible lack of posts on here lately! Last week I was more than a little busy, and this week I am in England again (yes I know, again…) and my internet is somewhat limited. How...
I love shoes, I can’t deny that any more, it has become far too obvious to those who know me. And you all know that I happen to love the Regency era quite a bit too. Soooo…. what about RE...
Right then, last update from this years trip to Bath, wasn’t that what I said? Well here goes. As I mentioned in my previous post, between the dance workshop in the morning and the ball in the ...
I’ve been debating with myself whether to split this day into two posts or do it all in one. I think I’d better do it in two, because otherwise it’s just gonna be too long. On Satur...
Ball number two that I attended was this, the Masked Ball in the Pump Rooms! I don’t know about you, but when I first heard about this event I felt a thrill of excitement run through me! I have...
Unlike the the previous days with their busy schedules, on Thursday I had only one event to go to, a dance class. You will know by now that I quite enjoy doing these kinds of dances, and so a dance c...
I feel like I am taking forever writing these updates, so I shall speed up here by doing two days in one post. Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday I had to move out of the amazing Admiral’s House. A...
Sunday was a very relaxed day for me. I had no events planned, instead I went to the famous, newly refurbished Bath Spa. My good friends Scott and Joanna were going and asked me to come along, so I d...
Saturday evening it was time for the first of the three balls I attended during my trip to England; Farthingale’s Grand Regency Ball! Held in the Assembly Rooms, this is the same ball that I we...
Here we go, part 2, the Grand Regency Promenade!!! This is always a very exciting event (yes I know, ‘always’… makes me sound like I am such an expert at it! But I HAVE been here th...
And so, I am back. Back after a wonderful trip to England and the Jane Austen Festival in Bath. I suppose it really goes without saying, but I did have such a great time! There is nothing quite like ...
It’s that time of the year again. The time of the year when I am running around like crazy trying to fit bonnets and dresses into my suitcase, printing tickets and trying to remember everything...
Remember that I went to a Regency ball in Stockholm earlier this year? Well at that ball some people began discussing the idea of doing something more, a similar event, or something else… And s...
Just a short post today. I thought I would post a video of me singing a song, an aria from Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro. The song is called Voi Che Sapete and I think any devoted Janei...
Sometime in the beginning of the year I wrote a list of different things I wanted to do over the coming year. And one thing on my list was; read War and Peace. I have long wanted to read that book (e...
That is what my sister Viktoria and our friend Dolinde decided to call the bookclub they started last year; International Jane Austen Book Club. I don’t quite remember how the idea got started,...
There really are so many good costume dramas! So many good series and films! I’ve just been watching yet another such series; The House of Eliott. Or to be more exact, I’ve seen a third o...
Not too long ago it was my dad’s birthday and we decided to do something other then just stay at home. So we went out for dinner and then we went driving around, exploring new places around the...
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