Within the Walled Garden

It all started when I spotted a vintage larder in Addison's very last auction sale. It was lovely but too small for my needs. So I checked out ebay and lo and behold, there was one just the righ...

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The fine weather continued and so we took the camper to Sandsend. The tide was on its way out and Whitby beckoned. Its a good couple of miles so we strode off across the sand. I wore my new...

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I saw a jigsaw of the city of Barcelona when we were there recently. It had layers of maps and models of buildings and was really attractive. I love jigsaws so when we got back I "googled" one ...

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I have been to Wales on three brief occasions. Long ago I went to St Davids with a geology field trip from university. Many years later I went to Aberaeron with the family on a trip back from O...

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We have two large wheelie bins and a small courtyard to put them in and the yard also performs as a garden, car-park and cat refuge. The first attempt to enhance the bins was a stick-on strip...

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The Imperial War Museum at Duxford has a marvellous collection of old battle planes from the earliest days. DJ is admiring one of the last flying B-17s but sadly it is only used for display fli...

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After a lovely stay in Tossa we caught the bus to Barcelona for a few days of sight seeing and urban culture. I find Barcelona to be an incredibly noisy and busy city and this impression was enh...

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Last year we visited Tossa de Mar on the Costa Brava as part of a tour. This year we returned to enjoy more of it and stay in a delightful hotel we had noticed down on the beach. Tossa is an o...

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These are painting knives. They are bent in the middle so that your fingers, knuckles and wrists don't smudge the paint. The flat ones are palette knives and they are used for mixing blodges of...

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There is still quite a bit of patchy snow in Weardale, particularly in the shadier and unused spots, like the churchyard. The churchyard is also now home to the fossil tree trunk although it...

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Hello All and Happy New Year! We have had a great time this season and eaten and drunk and visited our fill. It has become cold and the ground was white for the first time the night before last...

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Much of the urban north-east of England was developed alongside the Industrial Revolution. Railways and coal mines were the major employers of the average bloke. Our street is a "railway street"...

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So! We stopped where everyone else does and took a pic of the Belfry. I climbed it when I was eleven or twelve and we were on a family holiday so I didn't join the long queue to climb it again....

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It was a few weeks ago now but the trip to Carcassonne was wonderful. We caught a glimpse of the walled city above the trees as we drove in from Collioure in the south-west of France. We we...

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...Then we travelled north to Andorra. The land became more elevated and rugged. We arrived just south of the town of Soldeu and stayed in an out of season ski resort hotel. That's our balcon...

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We're just back from touring the Pyrenees and surrounding areas! Some great sites, terrific weather and amazing places. We flew into and out of Barcelona from Newcastle, which is very handy f...

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We drove over to Kirkby Stephen to catch a ride on the Settle to Carlisle Line. There was quite a chilly wind on the top of the Pennines. The second station to the south is Dent. All the st...

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This is my latest "hobby". I love it. I saw it advertised in our local free paper, "The Bishop Press" and rang up to book in straight away. The sessions are run at the Town hall once a month. Do...

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After the trip to Masham we settled in at home for a couple of sets of visitors. My sister and her husband brought Mum up to stay with a friend and undertook necessary work on the student rental...

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Last weekend was spent at Masham in Yorkshire. We parked the campervan for a couple of nights at The Old Station Campsite. This was on the route of the Tour de France and allowed us to get reall...

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It was such a lovely evening on Wednesday that we hopped in the Van and went up to Hamsterley Forest for a BBQ. It was nearly empty. The air was still. The Bedburn Beck rippled by and we sa...

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I've had a lovely arty-farty week. My usual painting class on Wednesday was based on a photograph of "The Pilgrim Way at Lindisfarne" taken by our teacher Paul Dillon . We all enjoyed this one a...

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We went over to Seaham Harbour today to check out the improvements to the old dock area. It has been refurbished into a marina and there are some lovely new buildings, housing the rebuilt Georg...

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We've been to Low Barns a couple of times in the last few weeks. It belongs to the Durham Wildlife Trust and it is a great renovation of an old industrial site. There is a lake surrounded by a ...

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We made the mistake of flying to Mallorca on a Thursday. That's when all the Hens and Bucks go for their four day weekends. Our fellow passengers had been drinking since they got to the airport ...

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