Happy Sunday everyone! It's great to be back to RUclips! If you're new to my channel, here;'s the link for my Summer Commonplace Book: www.mirandajanemills.com/summercommonplacebook For all other links and the recipes mentioned in the video, please see the video description box. Miranda x
Aaahhhhh and that's the garden! I just commented on the video when it was first being installed, wondering if I would see an update - and here we are😊 lovely 🌹🪻🌷
I just finished reading "Uncle Paul," and OMG, it was awesome! You mentioned there was an exciting twist at the end, and you're so right. Highly recommend the book!
That's so lovely of you to say, Valentina! It makes me very happy to read that, and thank you so much for your very kind and generous support. It's so appreciated! ❤️💐
My mom does Rug Hooking here in Canada! We call it that, not Rag Rugs, but she just got into it about 5 years ago. It's a popular enough craft on the east coast of Canada and the USA+ Michigan. I'll send you a photo of one of her rugs on instagram :) Very cool that you had an exhibit to visit about it :)
Dear Miranda and Donna So lovely to see both and to hear all your news. You both looked so very happy and Summery. I did miss you both very much. As it is Winter here it was a great chance to replay a lot of your Vlogs. What a collection of delight it was. . I'm a rag rug maker. My Nan made them too during the Depression and the Make do and Mend aspect to home making was very strong here I make my rugs from felted woollen fabrics from Op shops [Charity Shops] My rugs are made using upholstery hessian strapping and a sewing machine. Its a method i have created myself as a rather shortcut easy option I was so impressed with your Great Grandmother and Aunts beautfnuy created rugs. Julie xx
I agree On Chapel Sands was fab - I particularly enjoyed it as I grew up in the area where the book was set. Thanks for the lovely vlog, makes me homesick for that part of the world 💕
Hi Miranda! I'm so excited because I just discovered your wonderful vlogs and channel! I will be watching all of them. I live in Hawai'i, but have always dreamed of spending more time in the England. I spied your Miss Read collection; she is one one of my favorites. And I love that you are so close to your Mom and will be happily sharing in your cozy bookclub meetings. Thank you so very much and warmest aloha from here, Patty
Loved seeing the exhibition of rag rugs. I also make rag rugs. Here in the States we call them hooked rugs. It's a wonderful peaceful hobby which has made a big comeback in the last couple decades. Interesting to see those made by your aunt and grandmother. I believe Canada is considered the real birthplace of rug hooking. Proddy rugs are another typically British version and the methods are often "married" in rugs.
I really love the relationship you both have with one another I was smiling the whole time through this vlog. Thank you so much for sharing your lives with us!
Welcome back. We've missed you. Uncle Paul sounds intriguing. It's going on my list. The rag rugs are wonderful - both the exhibits and your family's ones. I've only ever made a 'snuffle rug' for my dog - it's strips of rags tied onto a grid to form tufts. Treats are then hidden between the tufts for the dog to snuffle out.
It was a joy to see you and your mother again and your wonderful vlog! You both look radiant! Your garden is beautiful. Great design. Hope to see you soon!
If I could go back in time, I would have majored in art history, too! This past week I've begun a whopper but also a treasure of a book, Impressionism: The Painters and the Paintings by Bernard Denvir. The color plates are gorgeous, and the writing is just wonderful. Every time I go back to it, I feel like I'm in the heart of late 19th century Paris, and what a spectacular place to be! It's wonderful to be able to travel along with you and your mom again, too. It's as if those rabbits knew they were film material. I don't think it surprises any of us that creativity runs in your family. I especially love your grandmother's rug with the cheerful, strutting birds along the border. Thank you for everything--the views of the countryside and museum, the books and beans!
Thanks so much for your lovely comment, Pamela! I love the sound of your art book and will look it up! Sounds like one I really would be enthralled by too so thanks so much for the recommendation. And thank you very much too for your kind and very generous support! I really appreciate it❤️📚
Woo-hoo Miranda and Donna are back!! Glad to hear you had a good break :) When you said rag rug, I was thinking of the braided, round multicolored rugs we see often here in the US. The ones you showed remind me a bit of wool needlepoint - gorgeous 😍
❤OMG such a WONDERFUL video, a complete experience and a total delight. Coming along with you lovelies, in the car, with those wonderful views and that amazing music was an epiphany!! I find this video a work of art. Thank you Miranda and Donna for making me feel soo happy!!
I recently found your channel and love it so! My Mum was from Bristol, England, but she raised me in the U.S. After she met my Dad in the 60’s they lived for a time in Africa. There she made a rag rug that looked like a saharan desert with the sunset…so a lot of those popular oranges and browns at the time. I wish I had it now. I lost her last year, so watching your videos with your Mum gives me such warm cozies! ❤
Great to see you again I have missed your videos but glad to have your newsletters to keep me going. Those rugs are wonderful! I remember my mum making rag rugs when I was small but they weren't as pretty as your grandmother's and great aunt's. The exhibition rugs are also beautiful, what a talent to create something from discarded rags. Louisa Creed's book looks fascinating. Thanks for all the book recommendations, I agree about the satisfaction of completing a set of vintage books - I remember how delighted I was when I got my final Chalet School hb! Also thanks for the lunch recipe, I'm now feeling very hungry as it's coming up to lunch time!
Congratulations on your vintage book find! They look like such lovely books....the kind I enjoyed as a young girl. Enjoy! Another beautiful vlog....thank you for sharing with us.
Growing up in the 1960s, I used to go with my parents a lot to Hutton le Hole, as we lived only about 10 miles away from the N. Yorks moors. The museum was nothing more than a couple of rooms, with some old farm machinery out the back, but they had big plans to re-create some of the old cottages. It was lovely to see it as it is now, since I've never gone back there. Lovely video altogether.
Dear Miranda! Thank you so much for your lovely vlog! I am immensely happy that you are back again!! I'm really interested in the new book of Laura Cumming. I read the Goldfinch a long time ago and was very pleased when I saw the painting in the Mauritshuis in the Hague last year. Thank you for pointing this book out. Your and your mom's trip to the museum sounded really wonderful. The lunch looked delicious! Also, your dresses were very beautiful! It is wonderful that you are back!! Have a lovely week❤️
That's so kind of you, Inga! Thank you very much indeed for your generous support - I really appreciate it! ❤️ I'm really looking forward to the new Laura Cumming book too. She's such a good writer and really knows her stuff! Hope you enjoy it if you read it as well! xxx
A wonderful video as always with fabulous music! Thank you for sharing the exhibition and also the great food with your mum. What a great life you have both made for yourselves in yorkshire with such beautiful surrounding areas x
So nice that you're back--you've been missed!🧡P.S. Right now I'm watching your video at our cottage on the St. Mary River, right across from Canada's St. Joseph Island.🏞
So lovely you are back. In the lovely break you had I’ve moved and trying to settle in a new home . I’am so happy that one of the guess room I’am making it my office/ library and I’am thrilled with all your great book recommendations . Thank you for all your great videos.😊Lovely,healthy lunch.
So pleased you are back after your summer break. Loved looking at the rag rugs. Thank you for the lunch recipes - they look delicious. I loved The bookbinder of Jericho - could not put it down. It is linked to Pip’s first novel The dictionary of lost words which was also marvellous. 💕 Jeanette
Hi Miranda- Uncle Paul is a fantastic read! I bought it following a bookseller recommendation and wasn’t entirely convinced but once I started reading it, I couldn’t stop, I read it all in one day! It’s very creepy in parts but so good🙂
Welcome back I want to thank you for sharing your love of books and art. My true purpose here is to express my gratitude for your kindness and generosity in taking your viewers along on your road trips with your Mum. I have been an Anglophile since childhood. It turns out that my ancestors served in Buckingham Palace after a cousin researched family genealogy. It’s a trace, but I’ll take it. If I ever had the chance to go to England, my preference would be to see it’s beautiful countryside. Oh, I’d visit London and do a few “touristy” things. However, I’ve always been drawn to England’s countryside because of its beauty and it’s wonderfully charming farms and houses, symbols of hard workers. I’ve watched many a program on the countryside and never had enough. Oh and the especially charming bookstores! Sigh. A bit of heaven on earth. Again, thank you so much for taking all of us along with you and your Mum. May God continue to bless you both. Gratitude from Alabama, USA. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
It is lovely to see you back Miranda! I will definitely try the bean salad as I have been trying different bean recipes for cold meals this summer. It looks delicious. My grandmother used to make rag rugs. She lived in rural Alberta in the 1920’s-1980’s and early on there were no shops to purchase things other than essential farm hardware and dry goods. Everything was handmade in the long winter evenings. Sadly I do not have the rug she and I made together, but I have quilts she made from fabric scraps of the dresses she made for herself and for me. I cherish them.
That bean salad is one we make frequently. You can vary the beans which is nice too. What a pity you don’t have the rag rug, Debbie, but how wonderful to have some of her quilts!❤️💐
Lovely to see you back, we would go to the Ryedale Folk Museum & Hutton Le Hole every year on a school trips & with my mum, many happy memories thank you. Lisa x❤️
Hello great to have you back. I wanted to share a new book buy with you as I know you like Barbara Pym it’s a large selection of short stories. It’s called The Adventures Of Barbara Pym
Miranda and Mom, thanks for taking us along on the countryside and museum trip. Both were so lovely. My fave rag rug in the exhibit was the cottage one. Here in the States, rag rugs are highly esteemed in the folk art/antique scene, too. That exhibit book looks like a good one. And, thank you for sharing the delicious looking lunch. I think I'll give it a go.
Hi Miranda and Donna - the Ryedale Folk Museum sounds fascinating. One to add to the list of places to visit in Yorkshire. Many years ago I visited a quilting exhibition in USA when I was on holiday on holiday. I still have the book on the exhibition and must turn it out to look at again. Both quilting and ragrugs seem to have been used to capture scenes and events, so are interesting stories of the past as well as fantastic pieces of craft. Thank you for the lunch recipe, I shall definitely try that. Have a lovely week.
I watched this video on my television rather than my phone, and I noticed you and your mum had the same lovely manicured fingernails in the car discussion after your visit to the folk museum. Maybe a sweet mother-daughter outing for your mum's birthday 💅 it's great to see you both ❤
I loved the 'Uncle Paul' book. I immediately read her first book 'Hours Before Dawn'. She has a unique writing style which draws you in and scares you silly. 'The Jealous One' is also excellent. I've done a lot of rug hooking in the past but now I'm on a knitting binge.
I am with Donna in that I usually follow the recipe correctly the first time and then I go rogue and make adjustments to meet my particular mood that day! The exception is baking when I tend to be more careful with the original recipe though not 100% on that either. I do love cookbooks and reading them particularly period ones. Regarding day rugs the ones my Mom and her friends made were all from clothes no longer useful, and they were very plain and nothing like the ones made by your Grandmother which were art and would be hard to walk on. Have a lovely week-long so glad you were back to make my Sunday extra special🌹🌹one for each of you.
I am stunned to see all the designs in the rag rugs. My grandparents had them but there was no pattern - just rows of color as they worked the rags in. Amazing!
Thank you so much, Miranda and Donna. Loved your video and the glimpses of your visits in Yorkshire. And the conversation in your vehicle, especially the chat about wedding dresses and how many British women married Canadians during WWII. My uncle from Alberta, Canada, was based in England during the war and married a lovely woman name Bette. They both came back to Canada after the war. As a little girl I was always intrigued by that story in our family history. // Too funny about that lovely embroidered dress you described being part of a dog's bed before it was rescued. Wishing you both a beautiful day, @BrenfromHome
Thank you so very much, Miranda and Donna. ❤❤ This is absolutely delightful, I enjoyed every moment and will most likely watch again before too long. Sending you love and best wishes from Canada. (Fredericton, New Brunswick)
Welcome back Miranda and Donna! Enjoyed the beautiful north Yorkshire scenery and trip to the museum. I love museums that give you some insight into the everyday lives of past inhabitants of an area. Both the rag rugs at the museum and the ones made by your family members are stunning and showed such creativity. The Bookbinder of Jericho sounds like an interesting read and is now added to my booklist Have a great week!!💕
Lovely to see you and your Mum, Miranda and glad to hear you had such a wonderful month! What a treat to see the rag rug exhibition. My late grandmother's house had many and I remember as a child how I used to play on them with the ceramic animals collected from her tea boxes. I should ask around the family and see if anyone still has them, they were so whimsical and I would love to see them again.
Thanks so much, Stacey! So happy it brought back happy childhood memories of playing on your grandmother’s rag rugs! Fingers crossed you get to see them again! ❤️
Those cheesy peppers are mouthwatering. So often it's the simplest recipes that are the best. Thanks for all your hard work on this lovely video. A great start to my week.
Welcome back!! Thank you for showing us the museum! We have something very similar called Strawberry Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH. I could have spent hours in their WWII era general store.
Loved this and looooved the recipes, will try them out soon for sure. Thank you for yet another wonderful video; must be so much work to make these but really appreciate it! Also loved seeing your mum again!
Hi Miranda! So wonderful to see you back on youtube. Wow, love those rag rugs from your great grandmother and great aunt! The museum ones as well. Beautiful! Thank you for taking us along to the Ryedale folk museum and through that part of Yorkshire. Truly enjoyed it! I will try that bean salad and stuffed peppers---seemed very tasty! Wonderful video. Thank you, Miranda.
(Melanie here) I found a cosy read that I think you'd like. I just read The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton. It is not a typical Edith Wharton book. (For example, it is more upbeat). It is a sweet love story. Very delightful.
I am sooooo happy you and Donna are back! You made my Sunday! The rags rugs by your GGG and GG Aunt were amazing...so talented. Thank you for sharing your day trip to the folk museum. That was very interesting. I loved everything about this video. Your face always seems to glow after your Dad has made a trip to visit. Can't wait to rewatch in order to jot down the book recommendations. Sending you both blessings!
Happy Sunday everyone! It's great to be back to RUclips! If you're new to my channel, here;'s the link for my Summer Commonplace Book: www.mirandajanemills.com/summercommonplacebook
For all other links and the recipes mentioned in the video, please see the video description box. Miranda x
Hi Miranda, I've missed you xx
Aaahhhhh and that's the garden! I just commented on the video when it was first being installed, wondering if I would see an update - and here we are😊 lovely 🌹🪻🌷
You cheer us all up, Miranda. Your videos have been a blessing to me! 💐
Such a lovely comment! Thanks so much! I’m so happy you enjoy my videos ❤️💐
I just finished reading "Uncle Paul," and OMG, it was awesome! You mentioned there was an exciting twist at the end, and you're so right. Highly recommend the book!
It was such a good read! So glad you enjoyed it too!
Lovely visiting with you and your mom.❤
Thanks for all you share. It inspires me.
That's so lovely of you to say, Valentina! It makes me very happy to read that, and thank you so much for your very kind and generous support. It's so appreciated! ❤️💐
Miranda is back ☺️
Aw thanks so much for your kind support - it means a lot! ❤️
My mom does Rug Hooking here in Canada! We call it that, not Rag Rugs, but she just got into it about 5 years ago. It's a popular enough craft on the east coast of Canada and the USA+ Michigan. I'll send you a photo of one of her rugs on instagram :) Very cool that you had an exhibit to visit about it :)
Dear Miranda and Donna
So lovely to see both and to hear all your news. You both looked so very happy and Summery. I did miss you both very much. As it is Winter here it was a great chance to replay a lot of your Vlogs. What a collection of delight it was. . I'm a rag rug maker. My Nan made them too during the Depression and the Make do and Mend aspect to home making was very strong here I make my rugs from felted woollen fabrics from Op shops [Charity Shops] My rugs are made using upholstery hessian strapping and a sewing machine. Its a method i have created myself as a rather shortcut easy option I was so impressed with your Great Grandmother and Aunts beautfnuy created rugs. Julie xx
Thanks so much, Julie! Very impressed you’ve made your own technique in your rug making!👏❤️
I agree On Chapel Sands was fab - I particularly enjoyed it as I grew up in the area where the book was set. Thanks for the lovely vlog, makes me homesick for that part of the world 💕
Hi Miranda! I'm so excited because I just discovered your wonderful vlogs and channel! I will be watching all of them. I live in Hawai'i, but have always dreamed of spending more time in the England. I spied your Miss Read collection; she is one one of my favorites. And I love that you are so close to your Mom and will be happily sharing in your cozy bookclub meetings. Thank you so very much and warmest aloha from here, Patty
Welcome!! Always lovely to meet another Miss Read fan! 💐❤️
Wow those rugs are insane. So artistic.
Hi, Miranda Mills Thanks Much!+
Loved seeing the exhibition of rag rugs. I also make rag rugs. Here in the States we call them hooked rugs. It's a wonderful peaceful hobby which has made a big comeback in the last couple decades. Interesting to see those made by your aunt and grandmother. I believe Canada is considered the real birthplace of rug hooking. Proddy rugs are another typically British version and the methods are often "married" in rugs.
I really love the relationship you both have with one another I was smiling the whole time through this vlog. Thank you so much for sharing your lives with us!
So happy you enjoyed it! And thank you for your kind words! ❤️
Your Grandmothers rag rugs are amazing!!
Thanks dear Miranda , I love your blog !
My spirits always lift on tuning in to you❤
Thanks so much for your kind support! I really appreciate it and am so happy you enjoy the videos! ❤️🌹
Welcome back. We've missed you. Uncle Paul sounds intriguing. It's going on my list. The rag rugs are wonderful - both the exhibits and your family's ones. I've only ever made a 'snuffle rug' for my dog - it's strips of rags tied onto a grid to form tufts. Treats are then hidden between the tufts for the dog to snuffle out.
It was a joy to see you and your mother again and your wonderful vlog! You both look radiant! Your garden is beautiful. Great design. Hope to see you soon!
Thank you so much!
So happy to see you again. Lovely catch-up. Thank you.
tfs your current books 📚 glad you've completed your collection of Penny books . . another yummy 😋 recipe
have a wonderful Sunday take care ❤️🙋♀️💐🥰🦋🌻🌷
So nice to see a Sunday video again. They’re always a bright spot in the week.
If I could go back in time, I would have majored in art history, too! This past week I've begun a whopper but also a treasure of a book, Impressionism: The Painters and the Paintings by Bernard Denvir. The color plates are gorgeous, and the writing is just wonderful. Every time I go back to it, I feel like I'm in the heart of late 19th century Paris, and what a spectacular place to be! It's wonderful to be able to travel along with you and your mom again, too. It's as if those rabbits knew they were film material. I don't think it surprises any of us that creativity runs in your family. I especially love your grandmother's rug with the cheerful, strutting birds along the border. Thank you for everything--the views of the countryside and museum, the books and beans!
Thanks so much for your lovely comment, Pamela! I love the sound of your art book and will look it up! Sounds like one I really would be enthralled by too so thanks so much for the recommendation. And thank you very much too for your kind and very generous support! I really appreciate it❤️📚
Woo-hoo Miranda and Donna are back!! Glad to hear you had a good break :)
When you said rag rug, I was thinking of the braided, round multicolored rugs we see often here in the US. The ones you showed remind me a bit of wool needlepoint - gorgeous 😍
Hello Miranda,you both are looking lovely. Thank you for taking us along to such beautiful, historical places.❤
Lovely to see you back Miranda hope you enjoyed your well earned break and thank you as always for the book recommendations and inspiration ❤
❤OMG such a WONDERFUL video, a complete experience and a total delight. Coming along with you lovelies, in the car, with those wonderful views and that amazing music was an epiphany!! I find this video a work of art. Thank you Miranda and Donna for making me feel soo happy!!
That's lovely to hear, Cristina! ❤️xxx
❤loved your vlog Miranda and seeing your mum as well .
Your videos fill my heart with glee. All things beautiful, Yorkshire looks sooo interesting. Thank you😊
Classic Miranda. You do what you do so well. An absolute joy to watch, as always 🌻
My daughter Daisy and I visited the museum many years ago and also found it enchanting.
I recently found your channel and love it so! My Mum was from Bristol, England, but she raised me in the U.S. After she met my Dad in the 60’s they lived for a time in Africa. There she made a rag rug that looked like a saharan desert with the sunset…so a lot of those popular oranges and browns at the time. I wish I had it now. I lost her last year, so watching your videos with your Mum gives me such warm cozies! ❤
So happy the videos invoke warm memories for you ❤️
Hello Miranda!! You have no idea how much I appreciate all the effort you put into making such lovely videos!!! All the best!! 🥰🇨🇦
Thank you so much!❤️
Miranda, the wall paper in the bedroom is absolutely gorgeous! And we can admire it so much in this video!
Great to see you again I have missed your videos but glad to have your newsletters to keep me going. Those rugs are wonderful! I remember my mum making rag rugs when I was small but they weren't as pretty as your grandmother's and great aunt's. The exhibition rugs are also beautiful, what a talent to create something from discarded rags. Louisa Creed's book looks fascinating.
Thanks for all the book recommendations, I agree about the satisfaction of completing a set of vintage books - I remember how delighted I was when I got my final Chalet School hb! Also thanks for the lunch recipe, I'm now feeling very hungry as it's coming up to lunch time!
It's lovely to know I'm not the only one ❤️
So good to see another of your blogs! Thank you! Always so uplifting 🥰
Congratulations on your vintage book find! They look like such lovely books....the kind I enjoyed as a young girl. Enjoy! Another beautiful vlog....thank you for sharing with us.
Welcome back Miranda.. you were missed..It is Joy and special treat to view your sharings.
Growing up in the 1960s, I used to go with my parents a lot to Hutton le Hole, as we lived only about 10 miles away from the N. Yorks moors. The museum was nothing more than a couple of rooms, with some old farm machinery out the back, but they had big plans to re-create some of the old cottages. It was lovely to see it as it is now, since I've never gone back there. Lovely video altogether.
That’s so interesting! They’ve certainly done a wonderful job! So pleased the video gave you a glimpse of it now ❤️
Dear Miranda! Thank you so much for your lovely vlog! I am immensely happy that you are back again!! I'm really interested in the new book of Laura Cumming. I read the Goldfinch a long time ago and was very pleased when I saw the painting in the Mauritshuis in the Hague last year. Thank you for pointing this book out. Your and your mom's trip to the museum sounded really wonderful. The lunch looked delicious! Also, your dresses were very beautiful! It is wonderful that you are back!! Have a lovely week❤️
That's so kind of you, Inga! Thank you very much indeed for your generous support - I really appreciate it! ❤️ I'm really looking forward to the new Laura Cumming book too. She's such a good writer and really knows her stuff! Hope you enjoy it if you read it as well! xxx
A wonderful video as always with fabulous music! Thank you for sharing the exhibition and also the great food with your mum. What a great life you have both made for yourselves in yorkshire with such beautiful surrounding areas x
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Your lovely newsletter tided me over in your absence but I missed you so much that I’m subtitling this video “The Miranda Mills Comeback Tour.” 😀
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Beautiful! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! ❤️
Again a very nice vlog, notes were taken, the list was made, thank you ❤📚🙏🩵
An absolute joy!!❤
So lovely to have a vlog from you again!
Thanks so much, Milena!
Thank you for the lovely Summer Commonplace book! So nice to see you and your mom in another adventure through Yorkshire. 🌻🌻
So happy you’re enjoying it! And thank you so much for your kind support. It is very appreciated! 💐📚❤️
So nice that you're back--you've been missed!🧡P.S. Right now I'm watching your video at our cottage on the St. Mary River, right across from Canada's St. Joseph Island.🏞
Wonderful! Thanks so much for the kind words!
Thank You for this lovely vlog ! ❤ I'm a huge James Herriot fan and would love to see more of Yorkshire.
WELCOME BACK ❤❤❤
This was interesting, I like the look of those peppers. Nice demonstration of the museum. Thankyou
Love these vlogs, I find them so relaxing and soothing, like a cozy visit with friends. Glad to see your summer is going well!
Thank you for your kind words!
So lovely you are back. In the lovely break you had I’ve moved and trying to settle in a new home . I’am so happy that one of the guess room I’am making it my office/ library and I’am thrilled with all your great book recommendations . Thank you for all your great videos.😊Lovely,healthy lunch.
Welcome to your new home! Enjoy your office/ library! It's lovely to have a room for your books ❤️
So pleased you are back after your summer break. Loved looking at the rag rugs. Thank you for the lunch recipes - they look delicious. I loved The bookbinder of Jericho - could not put it down. It is linked to Pip’s first novel The dictionary of lost words which was also marvellous. 💕 Jeanette
How wonderful to see you and Donna! A belated Happy Birthday, Donna!
Thanks
Thank you so much for your kind support! I really appreciate it ❤️
So lovely to see you 😊
Great to have a vlog from you again today. Loved seeing what you have both been up to.
So glad you enjoyed it ❤️
Hi Miranda- Uncle Paul is a fantastic read! I bought it following a bookseller recommendation and wasn’t entirely convinced but once I started reading it, I couldn’t stop, I read it all in one day! It’s very creepy in parts but so good🙂
Yay, you're back! Glad you had a good June. That lunch looked delicious. Also, the Folk Museum was fascinating!
Thank you! It was a really fascinating museum!
Lovely video as always! As beautiful as one of your great grandmother's rag rugs, you are a very creative lady too, just another medium.
Thanks so much! So happy you enjoyed the video!❤️
Welcome back
I want to thank you for sharing your love of books and art.
My true purpose here is to express my gratitude for your kindness and generosity in taking your viewers along on your road trips with your Mum.
I have been an Anglophile since childhood. It turns out that my ancestors served in Buckingham Palace after a cousin researched family genealogy. It’s a trace, but I’ll take it.
If I ever had the chance to go to England, my preference would be to see it’s beautiful countryside.
Oh, I’d visit London and do a few “touristy” things.
However, I’ve always been drawn to England’s countryside because of its beauty and it’s wonderfully charming farms and houses, symbols of hard workers.
I’ve watched many a program on the countryside and never had enough.
Oh and the especially charming bookstores! Sigh. A bit of heaven on earth.
Again, thank you so much for taking all of us along with you and your Mum.
May God continue to bless you both.
Gratitude from Alabama, USA. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you so much! I’m so happy you enjoy my videos ❤️
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your lovely support, Jennifer! I really appreciate it ❤️
It is lovely to see you back Miranda! I will definitely try the bean salad as I have been trying different bean recipes for cold meals this summer. It looks delicious.
My grandmother used to make rag rugs. She lived in rural Alberta in the 1920’s-1980’s and early on there were no shops to purchase things other than essential farm hardware and dry goods. Everything was handmade in the long winter evenings. Sadly I do not have the rug she and I made together, but I have quilts she made from fabric scraps of the dresses she made for herself and for me. I cherish them.
That bean salad is one we make frequently. You can vary the beans which is nice too. What a pity you don’t have the rag rug, Debbie, but how wonderful to have some of her quilts!❤️💐
What a lovely exhibition. Thank you for taking us with you.
I always enjoy your vlogs!!!
Thank you! ❤️
Lovely to see you back, we would go to the Ryedale Folk Museum & Hutton Le Hole every year on a school trips & with my mum, many happy memories thank you. Lisa x❤️
Hello great to have you back. I wanted to share a new book buy with you as I know you like Barbara Pym it’s a large selection of short stories.
It’s called
The Adventures Of Barbara Pym
That lunch looks delicious.
Miranda and Mom, thanks for taking us along on the countryside and museum trip. Both were so lovely. My fave rag rug in the exhibit was the cottage one. Here in the States, rag rugs are highly esteemed in the folk art/antique scene, too. That exhibit book looks like a good one. And, thank you for sharing the delicious looking lunch. I think I'll give it a go.
Hope you enjoy the recipes too if you do ❤️
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Hi Miranda and Donna - the Ryedale Folk Museum sounds fascinating. One to add to the list of places to visit in Yorkshire. Many years ago I visited a quilting exhibition in USA when I was on holiday on holiday. I still have the book on the exhibition and must turn it out to look at again. Both quilting and ragrugs seem to have been used to capture scenes and events, so are interesting stories of the past as well as fantastic pieces of craft. Thank you for the lunch recipe, I shall definitely try that. Have a lovely week.
Thank you, you too! ❤️
Thanks for the great content Miranda! It’s a joy to watch. ❤
I'm so happy you enjoy it! Thank you so much for your kind support! Your generosity is so appreciated ❤️💐
So happy to see you back! Your videos are always so calming and I always learn something! Thank you.
You are so welcome! ❤️
I watched this video on my television rather than my phone, and I noticed you and your mum had the same lovely manicured fingernails in the car discussion after your visit to the folk museum. Maybe a sweet mother-daughter outing for your mum's birthday 💅 it's great to see you both ❤
I loved the 'Uncle Paul' book. I immediately read her first book 'Hours Before Dawn'. She has a unique writing style which draws you in and scares you silly. 'The Jealous One' is also excellent. I've done a lot of rug hooking in the past but now I'm on a knitting binge.
I love Laura Cumming, she is great and really knows her stuff. Have you read The Vanishing Man?
No, but definitely one I’d like to read 📚❤️
Lovely video , I really enjoy your book reviews and the little trip around yorkshire ( i'm in Dorset) and so nice to see your Mum
Great to see you back Miranda 😍
That museum looks amazing. In a beautiful area too. Thank you for sharing your outing with us. ❤😊
I am with Donna in that I usually follow the recipe correctly the first time and then I go rogue and make adjustments to meet my particular mood that day! The exception is baking when I tend to be more careful with the original recipe though not 100% on that either. I do love cookbooks and reading them particularly period ones.
Regarding day rugs the ones my Mom and her friends made were all from clothes no longer useful, and they were very plain and nothing like the ones made by your Grandmother which were art and would be hard to walk on.
Have a lovely week-long so glad you were back to make my Sunday extra special🌹🌹one for each of you.
I am stunned to see all the designs in the rag rugs. My grandparents had them but there was no pattern - just rows of color as they worked the rags in. Amazing!
Thank you so much, Miranda and Donna. Loved your video and the glimpses of your visits in Yorkshire. And the conversation in your vehicle, especially the chat about wedding dresses and how many British women married Canadians during WWII. My uncle from Alberta, Canada, was based in England during the war and married a lovely woman name Bette. They both came back to Canada after the war. As a little girl I was always intrigued by that story in our family history. // Too funny about that lovely embroidered dress you described being part of a dog's bed before it was rescued.
Wishing you both a beautiful day,
@BrenfromHome
Thanks so much for your very kind words, Brenda! ❤️
Alleluia you’re back! Omg I have the same Tupperware strainer. It dates from the late seventies. Must be your mum’s!
Such a lovely vlog!! So enjoyed it all and seeing your Mum also!!😊
Thanks so much! So happy you enjoyed it, Pamela! ❤️
Good to see you back. Love your floral dress, Miranda 🏵️
Hello Miranda, it is wonderful to see you again! The video was brilliant as always! Have a wonderful week. Best wishes, Jason
Thanks so much ,and you too, Jason!
Thank you so very much, Miranda and Donna. ❤❤ This is absolutely delightful, I enjoyed every moment and will most likely watch again before too long. Sending you love and best wishes from Canada. (Fredericton, New Brunswick)
So glad! Thank you 😊
Welcome back Miranda and Donna! Enjoyed the beautiful north Yorkshire scenery and trip to the museum. I love museums that give you some insight into the everyday lives of past inhabitants of an area. Both the rag rugs at the museum and the ones made by your family members are stunning and showed such creativity. The Bookbinder of Jericho sounds like an interesting read and is now added to my booklist Have a great week!!💕
Thanks so much, Nancy for your lovely comment! Wishing you a great week too! ❤️
Another lovely vlog. Rydale looks delightful. The rag rugs in the museum & the ones of your great grandmother, take rag rugs to a whole new level !
Lovely to see you and your Mum, Miranda and glad to hear you had such a wonderful month!
What a treat to see the rag rug exhibition. My late grandmother's house had many and I remember as a child how I used to play on them with the ceramic animals collected from her tea boxes. I should ask around the family and see if anyone still has them, they were so whimsical and I would love to see them again.
Thanks so much, Stacey! So happy it brought back happy childhood memories of playing on your grandmother’s rag rugs! Fingers crossed you get to see them again! ❤️
Those cheesy peppers are mouthwatering. So often it's the simplest recipes that are the best. Thanks for all your hard work on this lovely video. A great start to my week.
My pleasure 😊
Welcome back!! Thank you for showing us the museum! We have something very similar called Strawberry Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH. I could have spent hours in their WWII era general store.
Perfect video for a humid and rainy day stateside ❤️📚
Loved this and looooved the recipes, will try them out soon for sure. Thank you for yet another wonderful video; must be so much work to make these but really appreciate it! Also loved seeing your mum again!
Glad to see you back! Nice sunday for you too.
Thank you!
So happy to see a new video from the channel on a Sunday 👏🏽
Thank you!
Hi Miranda! So wonderful to see you back on youtube. Wow, love those rag rugs from your great grandmother and great aunt! The museum ones as well. Beautiful! Thank you for taking us along to the Ryedale folk museum and through that part of Yorkshire. Truly enjoyed it! I will try that bean salad and stuffed peppers---seemed very tasty! Wonderful video. Thank you, Miranda.
Thank you so much! ❤️
(Melanie here) I found a cosy read that I think you'd like. I just read The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton. It is not a typical Edith Wharton book. (For example, it is more upbeat). It is a sweet love story. Very delightful.
So happy to see you back! This is a lovely video - I loved every segment! Have a wonderful week, and looking forward to seeing you again next Sunday!
Thank you! You too! ❤️
I am sooooo happy you and Donna are back! You made my Sunday! The rags rugs by your GGG and GG Aunt were amazing...so talented. Thank you for sharing your day trip to the folk museum. That was very interesting. I loved everything about this video. Your face always seems to glow after your Dad has made a trip to visit. Can't wait to rewatch in order to jot down the book recommendations. Sending you both blessings!