A really nice oldy-style painting of a soldier with blue trousers, a red, cropped jacket, a million buttons and those fun shoulder tassle thingies, topped with a really fancy hat with a massive white feather. Proper class. He also has a sword, spurs, and shiny shoes.

Ooo #ChristmasColours is the phrase of the day 😍 And here, dressed like the little drummer boy himself (because every women with a newborn wants a child to play drums in the nursery...) is an Officer of the Royal Waggon Train. Festive and fetching.

#MuseumsDoChristmas #ArchiveAdventCalendar

Whatsapp from the Museum Director:

The cafe is closing early next Tuesday so that Santa can attend the Christmas party.

*Santa is the name of the nice lady who runs the cafe. I cannot tell you how long it took the staff team to remember that and understand the message.

#MuseumsDoChristmas

Even Jackie our Giggles doll is joining in with Christmas Jumper Day this year

#WeekXForXmas #ChristmasJumperDay #MuseumsDoChristmas

Yes! Let's turn next week into one big #MuseumsDoChristmas celebration

We're off to the printers to get 1000 copies made 😆 #MuseumsDoChristmas

I wasn't planning on doing a huge amount of busy work next week - shall we throw the last working week of the year over to #MuseumsDoChristmas? I checked that hashtag Barnsley, it's all good.

We still don't have a doll based #ChristmasCard (yet) Looking back on the website now owned by Elon we once did #MuseumsDoChristmas - maybe its time to get the gang back together to do a #FestiveFriday @romanpalace.bsky.social @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social @merchantshallyork.org etc