Burgh House Hampstead

Off the beaten path is Hampstead is the more than three hundred year old Burgh House with a fascinating history. It’s now a community center, local museum, gallery, concert venue, event space, and more open to the public four days a week. We popped over for a bite to eat and to peruse the galleries to learn a little more about Hampstead history.

Wicked The Musical

Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens

London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.

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Just One More Candle

Just One More Candle

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Fifty Fabulous Years

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Cold Weather Activities

Cold Weather Activities

It's 19°F with a chance of snow flurries in the next two hours here at our mountain house. Intrepid cold weather folks would be planning a winter hike or something even more adventurous. Not us. We were raised in Florida and think that cold weather is a fine reason...

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Eleventh Night

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It’s a New Year! And we want to wish each and every one of you an amazing and wonderful year. In fact, since it’s a new decade, we hope you have a fabulous ten years and more! We’re celebrating today in the tradition we have practiced for the last few decades, we are...

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Our Modifications

Our Modifications

We've recently been busy developing a new section of our website, T@B Talk. It's available in several sections that are visible as a drop down from T@B Talk in the Main Menu at the top of this page. This page is just one example of the pages we've published there. Go...

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Forager’s Canteen

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Popping a Cork

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The mountains of North Carolina is an attractive summer resort location in the Southeast but two of us spend the winters here. That means that just as we are arriving back at the house some of our friends and neighbors are leaving for more southern climes. Thus was...

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