Life's about experiences. These are mine.
This is the fourth summary of my year that I have done (you can read 2018, 2019 and 2020‘s reports) and, for reasons I will outline below, this year is very much incomplete. Nevertheless it is still worth taking time to assess the year. Data for this report has as ever been taken from a …
For the last seven years (2014/5, 2015/6, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21) I have been documenting our attempts to get out between Christmas and the New Year to get some fresh air and burn off gained calories. The very last paragraph of last year’s entry ended thus: The hope was that things might be better …
Continue reading “Two Days, Two Counties, Two National Trust Properties”
As I write this a lot of hot air is being expelled at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) taking place in Glasgow, Scotland. This is where world leaders, and I use that term loosely, get together to try and agree a plan to reduce the temperature the world is warming by and save humanity. …
More by accident than by design we have ended up visiting three RHS shows in gardens in consequtive weeks and I am not sorry! As I sit here writting this with the rain pouring down outside the window I still marvel at the fact that we managed three days over three weeks in perfect weather. …
I really like Heritage Open Days, the national, annual event that opens up places that you wouldn’t otherwise get access to. In previous years I’ve managed to visit the store room of Reading museum and Reading Abbey before it was reopened. There are always interesting places to visit, exhibitions and talks laid on all giving …
I thought that I hadn’t been to the National Museum of Scotland before but as soon as we were inside I recognised it. From a dark and oppresive entrance it opens out into a vast light and airy space. It is a beautiful place packed with interesting objects. However, it is a right old maze …
Continue reading “Edinburgh 2021 – Day Five – Good Evans!”
We must have been to Edinburgh more than half a dozen times and after so many visits we are still finding new things to see and do. I’m not sure why we have never been to The Elephant House before because it does tick all the boxes for us: Tea & coffee âś“, Caramel Shortbread …
Continue reading “Edinburgh 2021 – Day Four – Once More Up That Hill”
When we arrived in Edinburgh on Monday I started to see ads on the side of buses for a Ray Harryhausen exhibition and I thought “ooh that would be good to go to”. This happened once before in 2015 when Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art had on a Roy Litchenstein exhibition. Next my thoughts …
Continue reading “Edinburgh 2021 – Day Three – Titans and Flowers”