A Wessex Poem; Poor Boniface is Murdered as an Old Man; and Pepys falls out with his Wife

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Hallo and thank you so very much for joining me.

How are you?  Are you able to find peace and contentment or is it eluding you?

Ideas from a simple Dorset lady:

1. Read in bed a real book for the first and last 15 minutes of each day

2. Make a point of being extra warm and kind to everyone you come across tomorrow

3. Buy a packet of lettuce 🥬 seeds and plant them tomorrow 

4. Download Charles Dickins Pickwick Papers on Audible and listen to some each day.  Persevere till the end when you will find your life has been transformed!

Bonne nuit mes amis x

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Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day at a time.  She shares with you snippets from books about history, art and literature and regularly takes you on adventures to new locations, to explore churches, cathedrals and architecture.  

Gretel invites you to accompany her as she navigates the world a day at a time;  the podcast is unscripted, it’s ad-free.

Gretel loves the world and history, architecture, literature and people. And so is determined to walk this path with light footsteps and with humour and warmth.  Let’s gather up the beautiful things and ponder them in our hearts.

Top 10 in Global Rankings according to Listen Notes.  I would be so grateful if you would spare the time to give me a kind review and possibly 5 stars (for effort as I realise it’s not deserved for achievement)🥴

Previous guests include  historian Tom Holland; Actor Enzo Cilenti; Art historian Philip Mould; Writer David Willem; Composer Matthew Coleridge; Vicar Angela Tilby; Author Bijan Omrani; Journalist and Historian Sir Simon Jenkins; Dorset garden hedgehog family, the Venerable Bede and other guests.  

Future guests (all being well) are Tom Holland, John Simpson, Eleanor Parker, Philippa Langley and Katie Channon.  

Unpolished and unscripted but no ads and no requests for anything but your company.  Trying to make the world a gentler place with literature, history and nature.  Please don’t expect to find a...