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 […]

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 […]

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 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. […]

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 […]

Beamish Museum WW1 Transport~ Part 4

Part 1 HERE Part 2 HERE Part 3 HERE Coming to the end of our day out now and first off some WW1 Nurses There were quite a few horse-drawn buggies with WW1 re-enactors driving them as well as the odd motor vehicle and a genuine WW1 airplane, though it […]

Beamish Museum WW1 Transport ~ Part 2

Part 1 HERE We came across a lot of horses, and people whilst we wandered around the museum The 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1759 and notable for its participation in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. These chaps were […]

Castle Eden Dene~ April 2018 ~ Part 2

Part 1 HERE After crossing the bridge we walked steadily down towards the burn (stream) and along the way I turned my lens on the little things along the way But also took some of the obviously very old trees On the way we came near to a road and could see this lovely building […]