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Avebury

Stone Circle
Avebury Stone Circle is larger and older than Stonehenge with the earliest stone structures apparently dating back to around 2850 BCE. There are three circles which are easy to wa… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/avebury/

Dance

Spirit of the Dance
I have just seen The Spirit of the Dance at Wimbledon Theatre. It is a show bursting with energy with not one of the dancers stepping out of line. The show takes you around the wo… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/dance1/

2024

Happy New Year
Wishing you peace and happiness in 2024 https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/2024/

Connemara

Ballynahinch Castle
Connemara is on the Atlantic Coast in the west of Ireland. The national park is a vast expanse of mountains, bogs, heathland and lakes. The park is also home to the Connemara Poni… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/connemara/

Goodwood Revival

Cars and Fashion
First time back at Goodwood Revival since Covid. It is still a fabulous day out. The car racing is great but what makes it special is the whole atmosphere, the dressing up, the fa… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/goodwood-revival/

Clifton Suspension Bridge

Bristol
Recently I visited Bristol. It was the weekend of the hot air balloon festival and I was hoping to photograph the balloons over the Clifton suspension bridge but because of the we… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/clifton-suspension-bridge/

Highclere Castle

Stately Home
I went to Highclere Castle. It is a Grade 1 Listed country house built in 1679 and largely renovated in the 1840s. The estate is in Highclere in Hampshire and is the country seat … https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/highclere-castle/

Tylney Hall

Weekend Break
I just had a weekend away at Tylney Hall Hotel. The hotel is a Grade II Listed building in 66 acres of lovely countryside in Hampshire. The entrance is tree lined with enormous Re… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/tylney-hall/

Pieter Breugel

The Tower of Babel
Pieter Bruegel The Elder was the most significant artist of the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance school of painters. He was a painter and printmaker well known for his landscapes and… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/pieter-breugel/

Vienna

City of Culture and Cakes
Vienna is a city steeped in history from Roman ruins at the front of the Hofburg Palace to the tallest tower of the Gothic St Stephen’s Cathedral.  It’s a beautiful city and I hav… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/vienna/

Batemans

Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, poet and journalist. He was born in Mumbai India and got the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He lived at Batemans, a Jacobean House… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/batemans/

Charleston

Bloomsbury Group
I went to stay at the Star in Alfriston for the second time, it is a lovely hotel with great food and the staff are well trained, you feel very comfortable.   On this visit I w… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/charleston/

Decorative Glass

Glass Blowing Experience
I had a unique experience over the weekend at Adam Aaronson Glass Studio in West Horsley. I made a heart shaped ornament and worked the glass using a variety of tools. There was a… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/decorative-glass/

2023

Happy New Year
I wish you a wonderful New Year and hope it brings you many blessings. The start of the new is a time to reflect on the year past and make plans for the future. Life is short m… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/2023/

Winter

A Foggy Day
I wish everyone a Happy Christmas and peace and happiness in the New Year. The photo above was taken recently in Lower Slaughter, it’s the Mill. Sometimes we need the fog to r… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/winter1/

Blenheim Palace

Winston Churchill
There is an exhibition at Blenheim Palace as you enter the great hall which follows the life of Winston Churchill. It is very impressive. The first thing I noticed was a painting … https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/blenheim-palace/

Dance

Strictly 2022
It’s back – Strictly Come Dancing is back on our TV screens. Having watched the first show my choice for being there near the end on the female side is Helen Skelton, a presenter,… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/dance/

Burghley House

Sir William Cecil
Burghley House is a grand 16th Century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. Built and still lived in by the Cecil family. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan … https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/burghley-house/

Kit Kat Club

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Playhouse Theatre
Cabaret with Fra Fee playing Emcee and Amy Lennox playing Sally Bowles is an amazing production. See it if you can. When you enter the Playhouse Theatre the fun begins, I won’t sp… https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/kit-kat-club/

The Car Man

Royal Albert Hall
I went to see Matthew Bourne’s latest production of Car Man at the Royal Albert Hall. It was a new staging and the first time Matthew Bourne has worked there with a company of 65 … https://www.shearingenterprises.co.uk/blog/the-car-man/

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