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The Gunpowder plot!

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  Remember, Remember the 5th of November! 🔥 Some links to the history of The Gunpowder plot and Guy Fawkes which include real historical documents.  https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/parliamentaryauthority/the-gunpowder-plot-of-1605/ https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Guy-Fawkes/ https://devonandexeterinstitution.org/that-hellish-gun-powder-treason/ https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/gunpowder-plot/ Wishing you all a enjoyable and safe Bonfire night.  🎇🔥🎇🔥🎇🔥🎇🔥🎇🔥🎇🔥🎇🔥🎇🔥🎇🔥🎇🔥

Witchy Wednesday is back!

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  Witchy Wednesday's are back! I hope you all enjoyed Halloween, we had a fairly quiet but enjoyable one at home. We normally go out and about visiting spooky castles and stately homes but to be honest I have been feeling a little bit 'under the weather' so it was actually quite nice to spend this Halloween at home snuggled up under my warm blanket, eating iced ghost biscuits and watching spooky movies! 😆 The joy of spending some much needed quality time at home is that I have finally had some time to do some reading and researching. Whilst doing so I came across some rather interesting articles on Witches and ghosts on the BBC website. So for the return of this weeks 'Witchy Wednesday' I thought it would be nice to share my findings. As with all external links I would advise visiting them and checking them before showing to younger viewers as some of the content may not be suitable for children.  I am not responsible for any external links or their contents.  Some...