43. A Year in the Life of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
25-29 August 2025 Thank goodness this week was just four days (thanks to the Bank Holiday). It's not been the best of weeks in lots of ways. Tuesday started off well until about lunch time when I discovered our website had completely
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11-17 August 2025 Mid-way through the summer holidays, another heatwave (29 degrees in Manchester on Wednesday!) and it has been a busy week for us. After the usual post-holiday catch-up for me it was back to scoping out grants, upping the Facebook
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28 July - 1 August 2025 A three-day week for me this week as I'm on leave on Friday and then back on 11 August - so this is a rather truncated post. This week we had a wedding viewing, the Christmas
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21-27 July 2025 The summer holidays are here and it's the start of the great six week 'child-care' juggle as I call it! Anyway, Manchester schools only finished mid-week, so although we did offer family activities this week there wasn't much take-up
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14 -18 July 2025 As the weeks continue to tumble into July all focus is on the impending summer holidays and our family workshops during August. The 2500 leaflets came back from the printers and we sent out 500 to each of
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