The Sun Hotel formerly known as The Little Inn made famous by Charles Dickens in his travels to Kent.

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The Grade II listed Sun Hotel in Sun Street, just metres from the main gate of Canterbury Cathedral, is one of the city's most recognisable buildings and known internationally as Mr Micawber's 'Little Inn' in the novel David Copperfield. Despite the plaque outside saying 1503, it was originally built in 1480.

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Nell Trent, also referred to as Little Nell, is a fictional character in the 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens. The novel's main character, she is portrayed as infallibly good and virginal. An orphan, she leads her grandfather on their journey to save them from misery but gradually becomes weaker throughout the journey, and although she finds a home with the help of a schoolmaster, she sickens and dies before her friends in London find her. Her death has been described as "the apotheosis of Victorian sentimentality

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A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech.

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Gabled 1713 pub with wooden floors where Charles Dickens reputedly stayed.

Situated between Pulteney Bridge and The Jane Austen Centre

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The Cathedral was founded in 604 AD, the present building dating back to 1080.

Featured in The Mystery of Edwin Drood and The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

On we went,

floating towards the heart of this strange place--

with water all about us where never water was elsewhere--

clusters of houses, churches, heaps of stately buildings growing out of it--

and, everywhere, the same extraordinary silence.

Presently, we shot across a broad and open stream;

and passing, as I thought,

before a spacious paved quay,

where the bright lamps with which it was illuminated

showed long rows of arches and pillars,

of ponderous construction and great strength,

but as light

to the eye as garlands of hoarfrost or gossamer--

and where, for the first time, I saw people walking-

arrived at a flight of steps

leading from the water to a large mansion,

where, having passed through corridors and galleries innumerable,

I lay down to rest;

listening to the black boats

stealing up and down below the window

on the rippling water,

till I fell asleep.

[from An Italian Dream, Chapter 7 by Charles Dickens]

Canareggio neighbourhood, Venice

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“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”

Charles Dickens

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FIREFLIES – OWL CITY

Hello everyone; do you all remember me?

I'm Kitty from da Hood's little cat, they call me l'il Billy

It's a sunny day today; I'm feeling lazy;

don't wanna climb a tree

The word out on the street is that it's a sunny Saturday

so I says to Mum, “Hey, don't forget 'bout Caturday!”

I really don't mind posing for a picture in a hat today

but I'd rather sniff the table;

catch the sunlight and be shadowy

I'm just chilling out; I'm a part of the garden statuary

I stand so still and let nature be a part of me

it comes in handy when I see the local constabulary

I'm like the Neighbourhood Watch reporting back on all I see

if you see a twitching curtain

and a glimpse of fur, you'll guess it's me

as I clamber up the back of the ancient antique big settee

and I play peek through the curtain,

pulling threads of cotton recklessly

but Mum never tells me off, because you see she is my Family

I run around behind her; she says I'm like a little dog

but what she doesn't realise is

I'm protecting her from the seaside fog

ok, I know it's sunny now, but it creeps up on you suddenly

and she has no sense of direction,

so she might get swept out far to sea

oh yes, I hear you laughing and you think that I'm so very silly

but I have an important job to do … gotta go …

Mum just called “Where you at Billy?!!

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Sorry I am away now until late tomorrow and will have no internet connection : 0( I will catch up with you all then. Thank you so much for your kind comments and visits. I really do appreciate each and every one. Take care and have a wonderful weekend. In England the clocks go forward by one hour which means longer lighter evenings and more chance for picture taking!! Lots of love, Poppy xo

The main character in Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" was at the New York Public Library member's Open House

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“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.” - Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“All in the eye of the beholder - Some of the most destructive forces in the world (Fire & Water), can also have the power of beauty.” - Martin R. Lemieux

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own". - Charles Dickens

“I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful — an endless prospect of magic and wonder.” - Ansel Adams

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I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can’t laugh at yourself, then you can’t laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

David Hasselhoff

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens

A good time to laugh is any time you can.

Linda Ellerbee

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

John Cleese

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is better when you’re laughing.

Anon

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo

Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.

Sebastien Roch

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

Shirley MacLaine

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

Sean O'Casey

A smile starts on the lips, a grin spreads to the eyes, a chuckle comes from the belly; but a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, overflows, and bubbles all around.

Carolyn Birmingham

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Dr. Seuss

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Happy New Year! Wishing you all the very best for 2020.

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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. -

Charles Dickens

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. - Rabindranath Tagore

May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun

And find your shoulder to light on,

To bring you luck, happiness and riches

Today, tomorrow and beyond. -

Irish Blessing

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. -

Attributed to George Carlin

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach

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Life is little better than a dream, and little worth the loves and strivings that we crowd into it.

We see Home fairly written.

Shining from the word, as rays shine from a star, we see how, when our graves are old, other hopes than ours are young, other hearts than ours are moved; how other ways are smoothed; how other happiness blooms, ripens, and decays--no, not decays, for other homes and other bands of children, not yet in being nor for ages yet to be, arise, and bloom and ripen to the end of all!

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”

― A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.

I love Christmas. It's my favourite time of the year: a season of kindness and generosity, friendship, laughter and love. It is also the time for Christmas traditions, like reading some of the lovely literature written about Christmas time, including Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".

The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 6th of December is “sprinkles”. In this case, to meet the theme, the sprinkles photographed are required to be the very small pieces of coloured sugar or chocolate used as a decoration on the top of cakes, ice cream, etc., and not inedible ones like table sprinkles used only for decoration. Luckily, as a baker, I have a shaker of sprinkles in my pantry, and I have dashed out a good measure of them across the title page of my first edition copy of Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" illustrated by Arthur Rackham published by William Heinemann in London in 1915. The background is some beautiful hand stencilled paper featuring proteas which I considered rather festive. I hope you like my choice for this week's theme, and that it makes you smile!

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Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. -Mattie Stepanek

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -Mahatma Gandhi

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. - Leo Buscaglia

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. -Leonardo da Vinci

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. -Charles Dickens

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. - Buddha

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“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Wishing you all a joyous Christmas!

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The Monument to the Great Fire of London, London, Uk

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Home is where the heart is. -

Pliny the Elder

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. - Billy Graham

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. -

Charles Dickens

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence. -Stephen Covey

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Cirque La Vie

Cirque La Vie

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

Quote — Charles Dickens

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."

Quote — Calvin Coolidge

"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?"

Quote— Bob Hope

Wishing you all a peaceful and lovely day.

Model : origami Santa with a Heart

Design: Fuchimoto Muneji

There is a video tutorial

Paper: one sheet of 18x18cm red kami paper

Final size: height 9cm, length 6cm

London

This building dates back to the 16th century and is thought to have inspired Charles Dickens’s antique shop of the same name. The name was created by Dickens though, later adopted by the shop.

Bergheim - Alsace - France