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Spoils from the fair ☺️🩵❄️ Rydal Mount

And that's a wrap on our Christmas fair as we looked out last night into the garden. It was a weekend we'll never forget, with spectacular snowfall, the collapse of the gazebo, but most of all the fabulous stallholders and visitors who made it really special. Thank you!

@CumbriaPR Rydal Mount I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills I should have joined the parkrun crowd And thawed my winter chills 🤔

How the snow changed everything at the weekend. Thanks to Laura McGuigan for the photos. Her stall had moved inside before the marquee collapsed !

Rydal Mount Everything went from looking quite festive to extremely challenging in just a few hours!

William Wordsworth and Taylor Swift "have a lot in common" says The Times....👇🤔🤔

We love our friends at the Burn How Garden House Hotel and their enthusiasm for books and book-people!

OK, let's look beyond Christmas. Who's thinking about getting married? Why not choose the MOST ROMANTIC place in the #lakedistrict for your wedding. See this, and then contact our wedding planner Annabel rydalmount.co.uk/weddings/

Burn How Garden House Hotel Heather Dawe @PaulTeagueUK Martin Edwards Kerry Darbishire Suzanne Snow Jo Moseley parkrun UK Rydal Mount Wordsworth Grasmere I keep thinking what a lovely hotel Burnhow is - really homely and attractive. It was the best setting I could imagine for a book talk - thanks again for inviting me.

We're looking forward to collaborating with Burn How Garden House Hotel in the new year. And any other #LakeDistrict literary connections

Photo taken Rydal Mount, July 2015. #floweroftheday

So many wonderful books about the #LakeDistrict but we've picked our five best. What would be YOUR favourites? cedarmanor.co.uk/blog/five-best… Fred's Bookshop VereyBooks Bookends Keswick www.bookscumbria.com Sam Read Bookseller Showcase Cumbria Lake District Wordsworth Grasmere Rydal Mount The Arthur Ransome Society Arthur Ransome Trust

We know that Ambleside CE Primary School🥰 have announced they will be taking part. Which other schools in Cumbria will be joining them? . thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/24139217.…

Which schools are taking part in our poetry competition? Who wants their poem displayed in Wordsworth's house? thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/24139217.… Thanks Westmorland Gazette , RT pls!

First entry for our young people's poetry competition has arrived! Deadline not till end of April so you have plenty of time. It's open to all school pupils in Cumbria (or what was Cumbria 🙄) thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/24139217.…

Three pages in Cumbria Life about our Meet the Author events. Next dates: April 18, May 16. 10.30am, all welcome! Martin Edwards Suzanne Snow Heather Dawe Jo Moseley lizziwake @PaulTeagueUK Kerry Darbishire Wordsworth Grasmere Rydal Mount

Kerry was our poet in residence last summer...😎

The fabulous talent of young Hope Basham who won the 11th Wordsworth Prize for Young Poets. Her name is now on the plaque on display here along with the other winners over the past 10 years & her poem is framed on display here. @showcasecumbria KeswickSchUKOfficial Cumbria Tourism

We're really proud of Cumbria's young poets. Our Wordsworth competition has run for 11 years and we've seen some wonderful entries northwestnewsandfeatures.wordpress.com/young-poet-win… Hope won a framed print of our "writing hut" and a £50 cash prize. BBC Cumbria University of Cumbria Golakes