Jennifer Spencer

@HBW_LeedsCastle High up on my ‘to do’ list but not made it yet….nearest we got was driving through Chandigarh in January!

12 hour trip to Shimla in Himalayas, arriving in time for stunning sunset. Shimla was summer capital of Raj & now regional capital. Good people watching day (skilled porters, mad driving). Looking forward to exploring tomorrow & riding WHS Toy Train on Monday!

Congratulations to a fantastic team!

@HBW_LeedsCastle If you are interested in block printing textiles & can get someone to take you (& I don’t underestimate the challenge - I had to get a tour guide to drop me off) then a visit to the Anokhi museum (just below Amber Fort) is a must!

In Jaipur, (Pink City), stunning gates to city & buildings. Visited stunning 16th C Amber Fort. Also saw rhesus macaque monkeys, black winged stilt, cows & goats. Onto Rajasthani hand weaving site, then street market. onto local street market. More Jaipur tomorrow then Agra.

@HBW_LeedsCastle It’s such a treat….took me a while to realise that the ‘auntie’ to whom they referred to was me! Love meeting these groups & young families too at all major tourist spots 💕

12 hours travel Varanasi-Jaipur today, so limited news. Except…I have become Chief Selfie Partner for Indian School Groups 😎 & today, going onto toll road, traffic had to stop while group of cows ambled through toll point. I don’t believe they were charged for road access.

@Bahrisons_books @AanchalMalhotra Congratulations…..hope to back for another visit in late January🤞

Honoured to receive the Best Bookseller Award from the Delhi State Booksellers & Publishers Association. Our deepest gratitude to our readers for their constant trust, & to our parents,Bhag & Balraj Bahri Malhotra,whose values continue to guide us. This award is truly yours ♥️

@herdyshepherd1 @BuxtonFestival Lovely to meet you today & share my love of all things Norwegian….but what was that you said about stepping back occasionally being for the greater good?!😉😀

I’ll be at the @BuxtonFestival tomorrow at 12.30 Hope to see some of you there… just need to do a heap of late night jobs so I’m fit to go and leave the ship afloat

Help #GardeningX #GardeningTwitter please can anyone assist me in identifying this fab rose from my late mother’s garden? Tried to transplant a bush - no success😢 it grew to 4/5ft high & repeat bloomed. It’s not D Austin as I asked them. #GardenersWorld

@Judeisherwood @AndrewPBrooks A lovely evening shot of @BuxtonFestival @BuxtonOpHouse

The Buxton Opera House on a summer evening.

buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/arts-and-cultu… Great work from Buxton Crescent Heritage team…..it’s been a challenging few years as launching new ventures mid pandemic was never going to be easy! Really feel we are making progress.

@SamDalrymple123 Passing through Burhanpur last autumn we met this lovely guy & his wife at the hotel they run. He is I think involved in local conservation & told us stories about the local sites. Sadly we didn’t have time to explore but then we can always return….

The Melon Palace In a small corner of Burhanpur, near the city's municipal rubbish dump, stands a rather gorgeous tomb known as the Kharbuja Mahal, or Melon Palace. In actual fact it's not a Palace at all, but rather the Tomb Bilqis Bano Begum, the wife of Price Shah Shuja.

@suzanne_moore Just returned from three weeks….Pune, Delhi, Haridwar, Rishikesh & Amritsar. Third visit in last year….adore the place but then you either get it or you don’t. However, I’m only 22 years in!

I need to go to India soon. It's where I always want to be. Always. It been that way for more than 40 years now. The longest love affair of my life.

@SamDalrymple123 Thank you. We saw the fort on our road journey last autumn. It has been most interesting to learn more as I could find only a little about it online! Makes me want to return but as the walk into the Ajanta caves nearly finished me off I suspect the walk up would be a challenge!

The Sultans of Sanskrit Asirgarh is renowned as one of the most ancient and impregnable forts in India, and even to climb up to the citadel from the village below takes a fair bit of puff.

@SamDalrymple123 Was lucky enough to visit last autumn. Awe inspiring. Knew little about it before so will be most interested to read your piece

In this week's substack - perhaps my favourite that I've written so far - I aim to show how the view is when we consider Ellora and Khuldabad as a single sacred city, and not just as a stream of separate monuments. Link Below open.substack.com/pub/travelsofs…

Ellora: A Wonder of the World The town of Ellora, in the state of Maharashtra, is one of the most significant religious sites in all of Indian history.

@RevRichardColes More of a crispy dosa fan myself….

@RevRichardColes And in Delhi we have petunias & pigeons!

@WalterJLindner Was very lucky that they still had some signed copies when I visited @Bahrisons_books 🇮🇳 today!😀

Almost half a century after I first arrived in India as a globetrotting backpacker here I am at one of India’s most iconic & famous book stores (Bahrisons, Delhi) signing a book on my journey through decades of travel, policy, music, diplomacy, spirituality & the search of wisdom

@GroomB Still have some of the beads I bought there as a student in the 70s🤦🏻‍♀️

On the Eighth Day, hippy co-operative, Oxford Road, Manchester, c.1973. Now a healthfood shop and café. (MMU archive)

@Judeisherwood @AndrewPBrooks If only they still made their wonderful dolly mixtures….could still buy them into early 90s but they stopped production around then. My favourite sweets!

Swizzels sweet factory in New Mills earlier in the snow, catching the morning sunlight.

@GroomB @UncleJoesSweets Happy recollection - passing these through a window to my late father as he was studying for his radiology qualification late 1950s. (I was very young!😉💕) I now have a bowl sitting on a side table in memory🥰…not sure I like the individual wrapping though!

Uncle Joe's Mint Balls factory, Wigan @UncleJoesSweets.

@SarahWoods66 Certainly not a day for a Cadwaladers icecream!

It was very damp and grey in Cricieth today, a good excuse for warm apple cake and hot chocolate in No 46 Coffee Shop 😋