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Met my spirit animal this morning.

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The fire is on ❤️

1. While I can‘t be at Gladstone‘s Library this year, I was able to visit Gladstone NJ a few days ago. Yes, it is named for the same person.
2. Meanwhile, my friends were driving through Colorado.
3. I took another little trip to [words] in Maplewood.
4. The orange cats keeping me company.
5. Bonney looking cute in the window. I‘ve seen her sister several times since then but haven‘t been able to get a picture!
#5joysfriday

Too many books for 4 days of reading?!

I bought 2 on the way here at the fabulous West Kirby bookshop, and @MicheleinPhilly doorstepped Waterstones in Liverpool to get the new Osman for me. Ive already read more than half of it though, so maybe not too many books for 4 days!

And can you spy the wonderful Gladstone‘s wallpaper?!

Looking forward to a lot more reading at our retreat this weekend!

Found among the travelogues, this book from 1894: A Winter Jaunt to (that most exotic and daring destination, "hitherto (...) practically unknown to Englishmen") Norway in winter!

By Mrs Alec Tweedie (née Harley) - a woman without even a first name of her own, but possessed of wanderlust and a decent travel budget, (not to mention a brother already at her destination).

#Gladstones24

Every year at #GladstonesLibrary I come across at least one title that amuses me (or makes me cringe - I still haven't gotten over "Journeys Among the Gentle Japs")
This year I present to you: CHEAP TRACTS
Entertaining, moral and religious, (not to mention cheap) repository tracts - for the use of W. E. Gladstone's servants in 1833.

Let the reading begin.
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I miss my happy place! 🥲

#gladstonerds 💕

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I don't want to leave 🥲
Thanks for a wonderful few days fellow #gladstonerds 💕
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If Gladstone read this travelogue that was gifted to him by the author (see earlier post), he must have bailed halfway through as several of the pages haven't been cut. So I might have to go the Project Gutenberg route if I want to find out what Rev. Christie experienced in the East and South of Russia. (Not a great deal if the first half of the book is anything to go by.)
#Gladstonerds

I always find some eye catching title in Gladstone's. And this time an inscription I can only partly decipher!
"The Right Honourable ?? Gladstone MP with the Author's compliments (compls)
Carlisle Nov(?) 10th 1878"

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All of the fabulous books from our Blind Date with a Book swap at Gladstone‘s Library #readingretreat.

Are there any you‘ve read and would recommend?!

Unpacked my book pile at our #readingretreat.

I‘ve not had one of the rooms with the posh book wallpaper before!

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This picture was taken two months ago today at Gladstone‘s Library. I miss the #fireplace and the food and the company and the bonging church clock and…

I bet it‘s lovely there with Christmas decorations. #DivineDecember

Thanks for a fab weekend everyone!

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Treasure found at Gladstone's. The Book of the Goat. By the British Goat Society. Containing Full Particulars of Breeds of Goats and Their Profitable Management.
The publisher also has "Book of the Rabbit - a charming book for rabbit fanciers", "Pig Keeping for Amateurs", and "Fancy Mice" which "goes thoroughly into the subject".

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The obligatory do not disturb shot #readingretreat

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#ReadingRetreat

Any opportunity to read in the sun
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