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 […]

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 🙂 […]

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 ~ 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 2 ~ the water features.

Part 1 HERE WARNING- long post alert, short attention spanners cease here. 🙂 I neglected to tell the History of Alnwick Gardens in part 1, so I’ll remedy that here. The History Bit Adjacent to Alnwick Castle, the gardens have a long history under the Dukes of Northumberland but fell into disrepair until revived at the turn […]

Alnwick Gardens ~ April 2018 ~ Part 1 ~ Tai Haku Blossom

Cherry blossom, don’t you just love how it bursts forth at the end of winter, piercing the grey skies in defiance with their lush pink or white bunches of blossom. I have a lovely pink one in my front garden, but Sophie doesn’t, so when Spring comes, we go off on a blossom hunt. This […]

Mere Knowles Cemetery~ April 2018 ~Part 2

Part 1 HERE We noticed that the chapels were not in the most habitable state of being and in noticing the roofing issues then noticed carved stone heads around the (technical term alert) stone rim thingy that went around it. There were a lot, so I’ve just chosen the ones I recognised, (see if you […]

Fraggle report – Mere Knowles Cemetary – April 2018

There’s nothing better (in mine & Sophie’s opinions) than wandering around cemeteries reading and photographing old graves and monuments. For us it is history with a personal view, the lives (and mostly deaths!) of real people and sometimes their families, chiselled into headstones. Names, ages, dates and symbols to be pondered on, sometimes researched (googled […]