Seaham ~ May 2018 ~ part 2

Part 1 HERE Let’s have a wander around the harbour and beach first. There was a boat removal going on while we were there Everyone found it entertaining The beach was clean and not too packed, Seaham’s Lighthouse was built in 1905 to mark the town’s north breakwater. The cylindrical metal […]

Seaham ~ May 2018 – Part 1

Last time out we went to Cheeseburn Sculpture Park in June, I must have been excited to get it done as I completely missed out a couple of other outings that Sophie and I went on in May, so I’m going to be chronologically challenged. No matter, it’s all time travel anyway. 🙂 SO, Seaham. […]

Cheeseburn Sculpture Park ~ part 3

On to the main event following on from part 2 HERE the reason Sophie & I went to the park in the first place was to see big shiny things, by a gentleman called Qi Yafeng. I can’t find a website for him, maybe not allowed one in China. Anyway he’s done quite a lot […]

Cheeseburn Sculpture Park ~ June 2018~ part 2

Following on from part 1 HERE The gardens at Cheeseburn Grange are quite lovely and a perfect place for delicate glass sculptures Can’t remember who did that sorry!! Laura Johnston http://www.laurajohnston.com thrilled us with these beautiful glassworks in the woods I loved how the colors reflected onto the woodland path Simon Hitchins http://www.simonhitchens.com combined […]

Cheeseburn Sculpture Gardens~June 2018

Sophie and I decided to take photographs at Cheeseburn Grange, where they have open weekends a few times a year and the public can come along and wander the beautiful grounds and see the sculptures therein. I told Clare over at The Mermaids Purse I was going and she asked me to write a report […]

Fraggle Report~St.Albans Cathedral~ May 2018

*Attention span warning*– long post requiring 5 minutes reading ability. 😀 Back in May, regular readers may remember, Phil and I went down memory lane to ST. Albans in Hertfordshire. Neither of us had ever visited the Cathedral before when we lived and worked there, so we made up for that, new memories :). The […]

Botanical Gardens ~ May 2018 ~ Bluebell edition

The Botanical Gardens are surrounded by native woodlands, (as opposed to tourist woodlands? ) and when we were there the woods were absolutely carpeted with millions, or at least very many, bluebells. After doing the garden, and having lunch we went to photograph them. Might have gone a bit OTT. 🙂 So here I’m going […]

Durham Botanical Gardens ~ May 2018 ~ part 2

Part 1 HERE After we exited the hot glass house we toddled off around the grounds, So many different blossoms and blooms everywhere As the Gardens are part of the University Campus, on sunny days the students come here to study, or chat, or be romantic 🙂 […]

St.Albans, Hertfordshire May 2018

Originally posted on fragglefilm:
Phil and I met when we were both working in the Operating theatres of hospitals down south. Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans were sister hospitals which became a trust, and we worked in both. This was back in 1987 through to about 1992 or thereabouts when Phil had to come…

Durham University Botanical Gardens~ May 2018

At the beginning of May, Sophie and I went off to the Botanical Gardens at Durham University. I can’t say Durham is my favourite place to drive through (which you have to do to get to the gardens) as it’s olde worlde charm rapidly disappears when you have to navigate traffic bottlenecks on tiny roads […]

WWT April 2018 – part 2 – Dancing Birds

Part 1 HERE Springtime is always fun for the birds at the WWT, they all seem very perky and dancing about. Not everyone wanted to join in 1 point for each, if you know who sang the songs I used for the captions 🙂 SaveSave

Washington Wildfowl Trust~ April 2018~ Part 1 ~ Duckfest!

Sophie and I did get out and about a lot in April, so I’m way behind with posting our adventures. We visited the WWT to see if there were any baby birds to shoot. They were in the muddy pond at the beginning of the walk around the wetlands, further on […]

Alnwick Garden ~ April 2018~ Part 5 ~ bits and bobs

The tree house at Alnwick Gardens is one of the biggest I know of (not that I know of many, except that mad one in Tenessee) and is made from sustainably sourced Canadian cedar, Scandinavian redwood and English and Scots pine. It has a well-reviewed restaurant doing local fare, and has wobbly rope bridges to […]

Alnwick Garden ~ April 2018 ~ people

Part 1 HERE. Part 2 HERE. Part 3 HERE Alnwick Gardens is a popular place for families to visit, as long as it isn’t raining too hard, there’s always a lot of cars in the car park. It’s such a big place though so you never feel crowded. It’s a good place to people watch […]

Alnwick Gardens ~ part 3 ~ flowers

Part 1 HERE. Part 2 HERE Of course, a garden isn’t really a garden without flowers. At the top of the central water cascade is where they’re all at, in a walled-off courtyard. Plenty of tulips in bloom in April of course, all gloriously coloured, such happy flowers to see after a long grey winter. […]