Badger Galore
Staying ‘Up Over’ for a while.
Bradford.
So…this last weekend we went to Bradford. '“Why?'“ you might ask. Well, we had never been before and it is the UK City of Culture for 2025. The Turner Prize exhibition is on there and there was an exhibition by Marshmallow Laser Feast, who were the artists who created ‘Of The Oak’ that we saw this year at Kew Gardens. On top of it all it just so happened that there was a light festival on for the weekend as well. We really liked Bradford. Behold!
Lighting up the ‘Pools’!
So…on a recent escape we got away to Liverpool again and Blackpool. There was a light festival on in Liverpool, ‘River of Light’ and we also got to visit the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool that was closed on our last visit due to Graduation Ceremonies. The famous illuminations are on in Blackpool at this time of year and Will had never seen those. Our Blackpool accommodation was comfortable if a bit tacky, very much like Blackpool itself.
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Caerlaverock.
So…I am not doing very well at keeping up with this blog at the moment due to be being busy looking after Mum. I am behind on a few updates which I hopefully will get posted up in the next week. The first is a quick visit to Caerlaverock in Scotland near Dumfries to the Wildlife and Wetlands Trust site there where thousands of geese arrive to spend the winter on the shores of the Solway. We discovered Caerlaverock roughly translates as ‘fort of the skylark’, ‘caer’ meaning ‘fort’ and ‘laverock’ meaning ‘skylark’.
We had a lovely couple of hours wandering around and visiting the various hides and saw a huge, noisy flock of Barnacle Geese, a few Whooper Swans and a small flock of Long Tailed Tits!
Autumn Colours.
So…Autumn is upon us and this year the colours appear more vivid apparently because of the heatwaves we had earlier in the year. Here are some pictures from recent wanderings and a lovely walk through Gelt Woods with Will.
My London Lad and Lass!
So…we have managed to get down to London to see our new Granddaughter, Asher a short while ago. She is absolutely gorgeous and was so calm and sleepy. We didn’t want to intrude too much so it was a flying visit but we got out and visited the Frieze sculpture festival in Regents Park and saw the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2025 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and had some fun time with Rowan in the park before heading back North. We have not been able to do our annual Swell Sculpture Festival visit to Currumbin for obvious reasons this year but sadly the Frieze didn’t really make up for it…
