Happy Christmas and New Year!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR! Just a short post to wish all our guests and visitors to our website and Blog a blessed Christmas and Happy New Year. ‘Blenheim Lodge . . . panoramic Lake views, peace and tranquillity, nestled against acres … Read More

Published!

Published! I was so pleased to receive the email yesterday from Burgundy Balloon to say that they had published their first anthology because my poem is in it! On 22nd May, I sent a submission to them in hopes of publication. They … Read More

He is risen!

“Christ the Lord is Risen Today” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9khJXoL9QGk I grew up singing this hymn, and literally learnt it in school and church as a kid of 6 years of age. It has stayed with me all these years and continues … Read More

Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and happy New Year

Christmas is the “most wonderful time of the year,” wrote Edward Pola and George Wyle in 1963. At Blenheim Lodge, we would like to wish our previous and future guests a most wonderful and blessed Christmas 2018 and New Year … Read More

A walk up Orrest Head

I love walking with Hubby and Zack, our Pyrenean. Zack is an old dog, and at one point, we almost lost him for good. Thus, it is such a joy to see him walking well and taking in with gusto … Read More

A successful family get together

A couple of days ago I wrote about a large family occasion where a birthday boy was about to turn 90 years of age. Fourteen people of varying ages arrived over the weekend, and stayed in nine of our bedrooms … Read More

The myriad faces of Lake Windermere

Lake Windermere, or more correctly, Windermere, is England’s largest natural lake at 10.5 miles. By virtue of our hilltop position in Bowness-on-Windermere, approximately 6-7 miles of this watery expanse can be viewed from our room windows at Blenheim Lodge, an … Read More