Christmas time would not be the same without the adorable Raymond Briggs animation The Snowman. It was certainly a Christmas staple for me; as quintessential as the Turkey roast, the giving and receiving of gifts and the drinking of sherry. It tends to be shown on TV on Christmas Eve afternoon and I never once made it through watching without…
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Autumn is my favourite season of the year for lots of reasons. The heat of the summer is over and the long cold nights haven’t drawn in yet either. It’s one of the shoulder seasons for travelling which means lower prices and quieter tourist areas (always a bonus!) However, my main reason is the fact the trees turn…
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It may shock all my regular readers to know that Elmer’s Big Parade Suffolk was only my first sculpture trail of 2019. How did I get to summer’s end and only do one trail? There have been so many good ones this year, many of which have just come to an end after their summer adventures. However, with…
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It is hard to comprehend what seeing 100,000 knives in one place would look like and with the best will in the world, I’m not sure anyone could have imagined the Knife Angel would be the result. When I knew the Knife Angel sculpture was going to be in my local city of Liverpool, I knew I had…
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I recently had the pleasure of dining at Barristers Restaurant at The Courthouse in Knutsford after been invited along to try out the new winter’s menu. Being December, it was a fabulously festive treat without being another Christmas dinner. The food was delicious and the setting luxurious. Disclaimer: I was invited to review the new winter’s menu and…
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This is what happens when you give a team of ice sculptors 4 months and 4000 litres of water to play with…or maybe you can visualise it better in terms of tonnes of ice: over 250 of them! The Manchester Ice Cavern is part of Britain’s very first dedicated Ice Village. It opened in November 2018…
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It’s no secret to anyone who knows me or follows me on social media that autumn is my favourite time of year! Mainly because of how beautiful our earth looks cloaked in its fiery autumnal coloured coat, from bright yellows and shimmering gold, through orangery ochre’s to brilliant scarlet and rusty russet. Nothing beats sunny autumn days crunching…
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As the Worcester Stands Tall giraffe sculpture trail enters its final weekend of a 10 week run in the UK city of Worcester, I look back on how exciting my trip exploring the trail and the area was. Without a doubt, the greatest joy about these kinds of sculpture trails for me is how they introduce you to a city…
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Sculpture trail season has started in earnest with birds and animals flooding in to various cities around the UK like Noah’s animals to the ark. July has seen penguins take to the streets of Dundee, giraffes to Worcester, hares to Norwich, bees to Manchester, owls to Bath and Wallace and Gromit characters to Bristol. But if you’re going…
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It’s taken me 7 years of regularly visiting the North East of England to finally visit Penshaw Monument. It’s situated high on a hill overlooking the city of Sunderland in the county of Tyne & Wear. From my usual base in Hartlepool where I have family, I regularly explore County Durham. I’ve seen Penshaw Monument from…
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The phrase “You Learn Something New Every Day” springs to mind when I think of my trip to the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston. But actually it was more like ‘many things’! Who knew Preston was the birthplace of the UK’s motorway network? The creator of teetotalism? Home to the tallest church in England that…
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Established over 30 years ago, the Cheshire Steam Fair is one of the biggest steam events in the north west of England. Held on a large site in the village of Daresbury, near Warrington in North Cheshire, the fair pulls an audience from far and wide. Living in Warrington, you see signs go up well in advance, so I finally…
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