The time has come, sooner than any of us expected, for the blog of a Conservation Intern to come to an end. I’ve been sacked for being completely useless… Only joking- I’ve got a job! I a...
https://plasnewyddnt.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/sad-goodbyes-and-glad-beginnings/
Last week the Plas Newydd team headed to the north coast of Anglesey to visit Cemlyn. Cemlyn is a North Wales Wildlife Trust reserve and an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The reserve land is...
https://plasnewyddnt.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/a-trip-to-cemlyn/
Behind the scenes part two: the cellars. I talked about the cellars when I wrote about our Halloween event, but I thought I would show you them not decorated with cobwebs and witches; they are st...
https://plasnewyddnt.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/behind-the-scenes-downstairs/
There is often a lot more to National Trust properties than what the public get to see, and here at Plas Newydd there are a whole host of rooms behind the scenes; so I thought I would write a cou...
https://plasnewyddnt.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/behind-the-scenes-upstairs/
One of the most delightful aspects of the winter clean is getting to have a really good look at some of the furniture and objects that remain closed to view for most of the year. We need to cle...
https://plasnewyddnt.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/whats-in-the-box/
I’m sure everyone is sick of hearing about the weather and seeing pictures of the snow, but Plas Newydd looked so very pretty all in white that there was “snow-way” (bet you’re all sick o...
https://plasnewyddnt.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/plas-sno-wydd/
Everything in every part of our rooms gets cleaned in the winter and so in our tallest rooms, the Gothick Hall and the Music Room, we need to reach the high up picture frames and the ceiling corn...
https://plasnewyddnt.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/a-head-for-heights/
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda Pawb! Happy New Year and welcome back to my little conservation blog. The team are all back to work and busy here at Plas Newydd; with our December events fading into the past...
https://plasnewyddnt.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/welcome-to-2013-and-the-winter-clean/
Last weekend I finally got to live out my dream of being in a period drama, or at least putting on a costume and pretending I was in one. It was Plas Newydd’s 1930’s Christmas Party, so we al...
https://plasnewyddnt.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/a-1930s-christmas-party/
All the Christmassy activity in the house has meant that we haven’t started the deep winter clean in the rooms that we open for our December events. However, the upstairs rooms of the house hav...
https://plasnewyddnt.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/saying-night-night-to-lady-anglesey-s-bedroom/