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10th August 2015
Running a business can be hard work and a few years ago a friend asked if I would like to join her on a weekend away at a spa.
We were fortunate enough to see Ragdale Hall advertised and I completely fell in love with the place!
The essence of Ragdale Hall for me is summed up as soon as you arrive, as you drive up to the door the smiling staff take your bags from the car and whisk them away. It is like all your stress is left at the door, the bags are taken to your room and you are taken and seated in a lovely conservatory with a drink while you check in.
The first time I came to Ragdale I was taken on a tour of the hotel, which I would recommend.
I have stayed in many nice hotels but Ragdale is somewhere very different.
In all the beautifully appointed rooms not only was the decor lovely but they all had one thing in common, comfort! I was surprised to see people asleep, but Penny explained the Ragdale philosophy is to make yourself at home, and that is just how I feel when I return each time.
I have developed my own Ragdale routine! I still wake early so I have a good half an hour walking in the grounds. I would never usually walk alone anywhere but here at Ragdale with friendly staff around you do feel very safe.
I have noticed in the summer the hares are out early morning so I do like to watch them, they are so lovely and so fast!
If I am feeling as energetic as the hares I will go into the gym, which looks out onto the Leicestershire countryside.
Next is breakfast in bed, I know I have been up and dressed but it is still a treat to be served in your room
Then up and out for the day in the pools and thermal spa which is wonderful, my favourite is the candle pool, it is THE most relaxing place I have been, so much so if I am ever in a very stressful situation I close my eyes and try to be there!
I have no picture so click this link to see it http://www.ragdalehall.co.uk/facilities.php/Spa-Area-2/
Lunch at Ragdale is starter served to your table and then buffet style.
The food at Ragdale is fabulous and so much to choose from, after dessert hot drinks are served in the veranda bar and then you can settle your lunch before an afternoon of yet more rest and relaxation.
I have been to Ragdale at all times of year but if it is sunny I would recommmend a swim in the outdoor pool. I took our small William Morris bag with me to carry my costume, as there are changing rooms just at the side of the pool.
The range of treatments at Ragdale Hall are amazing and all carried out by really knowledgeable and pleasant staff.
This time I enjoyed a wonderful Clarins facial and tri active body polish and a pedicure, not only do you leave Ragdale Hall feeling better, you look better too!
Dinner starts with speciality breads and dips and then the choice of main course
This lovely creme brulee was the nicest I have had, the lavender shortbread biscuit was just wonderful.
The only downside to going to Ragdale Hall is leaving! but I return to work re-energised and relaxed and thinking of the next time!!
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Posted in William Morris Bags by Laura
Happy first day of Spring 🌷what’s your favourite thing about spring? 🌱 Ours is of course all the stunning flowers blooming all around us 🪴 To get 15% off our website to bring some florals indoors, use code; SPRING at checkout on our website 🤍
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Our fat quarters are ideal for quilting or patchwork projects, in all our licensed William Morris designs we also sell them in bundles 🌿 Our website has 15% off everything at the moment with code; SPRING 🌷
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A bit of a different one today, and we’re very amateur so don’t zoom in on our planting too much, but isn’t spring lovely tidying up the greenhouse ready to plant in? 🌱 Next up is getting some tomato plants and might even take on a dahlia or two! 🤍 If you’re a gardener and know how to keep this grape vine alive, do let us know how 😂
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Celebrating International Women’s Day today 🤍 As a female founded and run business, it’s always important for us to look at the women throughout history that have been empowered and made a difference. Few have made such a difference than May Morris, not only an expert in embroidery and design, she ran the embroidery department at her father’s business, Morris & Co. She also founded the Women’s Guild of Arts as the Art Workers Guild did not admit women - like her father was a true pioneer at the time with her talent and activities to progress women’s rights - a remarkable woman indeed 🌿 We were lucky enough to see some stunning original May Morris embroideries at our friends @williammorrissocietyuk - she was a true talent 🧵🪡
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Give us all the spring florals, we’re absolutely ready for the blooms to bloom this spring 🌷🌿 To celebrate, use code: SPRING on our website for 15% off everything (including our beautiful spring sale with exclusive colour ways and different products!) 🌱 Hope you’re all enjoying the sunshine today 🌞
Beautiful William Morris Daisy is on the table today 🌼
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Celebrating World Book day with a coffee meeting over one of our favourite books; our French archive ⚜️ Filled to the brim with beautiful designs, we might have picked a couple to be our new designs! Quilters, you’re going to want to watch this space! 🫶🏻 If anyone’s interested in how we bring a new design to life, let us know we’d be happy to film it for you! 🥰
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A little afternoon tea set up 🧸 Using stunning Willow Bough blue, we thought this is a perfect William Morris kids afternoon tea party 🤍
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Prepping some beautiful blooms 🌷 Got to include our fabulous William Morris tea towels of course 🩷
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What do you think to our new tote bags? ✨ Now in cotton fabrics, we’ve been perfecting the samples for weeks and they got stolen out the office and taken on a cruise by one of our team who thought they’d be the ideal holiday totes 🤍 what do you think? Shall we make these part of our range? ♥️
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Stunning Daisy is on the table 🫶🏻 Daisy was the first design William Morris produced so it’s always such a special one amongst his fans ✨
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Pack a fabric stack order with us ✨ which William Morris design is your fave? 🤎
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Oh Compton we love you! 🧡 All the details within Compton are so stunning, the winding leaves and florals, did you know it was the last design Morris himself before he passed? 🤎
featuring; William Morris Compton, our licensed digitally printed design ✨
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Back in stock alert! 🐇 One of our all time favourite designs is William Morris Brother Rabbit and we’ve just digitally printed it on cotton in the red everyone has always loved so much from our licensed collection 🥰
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📣 We’ve got a big announcement! 📣 We are now digitally printing our fabrics 🎉 Still printed in the United Kingdom (of course!) we always aim to bring you the highest quality, licensed William Morris designs (and exclusive florals but more on that later..) and by digitally printing them we can really focus on the details within the fabric, you can see how crisp all the aspects within the design are here: the little strawberries and the birds are so clear in the design 🍓 Printed onto high quality cotton, we’re so pleased to be able to print Morris designs displaying all the details just as he drew all those years ago 🎨 Timeless designs that when he was printing his designs in Merton Abbey Mill using the Indigo dye technique he’d never have been able to imagine the progress made that we can now digitally print them! 🤍 Strawberry Thief red is now back in stock, such a gorgeous design we adore it ♥️
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To celebrate Valentine’s Day this week, we’ve been looking through some Pre-Raphaelite love quotes including this one from Dante Gabriel Rossetti ♥️ They sure knew how to write poetry, we’ll share more of their beautiful words this week ✨
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Today’s tablescape feels very Valentines pretty 🤍 Beautiful Charlotte Rose is our design from our French archive, so timeless it’s on our table constantly through the year 🌹
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We’re closed for holiday soon! 🪩 From the 21st Jan- 6th Feb we’ll be taking a little break, so make sure your orders are placed before then, or we will send it when we’re back ✨ since we’re treating ourselves, we thought we’d treat you too with 15% off our website with code; MORRIS - valid until we close 🤍
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Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄 We hope you’ve all had a wonderful day ✨
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There’s still time to get your Christmas shopping ticked off! ✨ Free gift wrap on your orders and 10% off everything with code; festive 🎄 Just email us or message us to let us know you’d like us to gift wrap your order ☺️
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Loving cutting beautiful fabric stacks this Christmas! 🎄 A fabric stack is an ideal gift for quilters and crafters in your life, they’ll be able to enjoy using them for their next project ✨
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