Friday 28 November 2014

Hooray for Shabang Theatre's Countdown to Christmas



 
National Diversity Award Winning Shabang Theatre have launched  an Advent Calendar with a difference: see https://www.shabang.org.uk/ and then wait for my next link. For now though, here's Gordon the Garden Gnome with his friend Rudolph.....

Thursday 27 November 2014

Mammoth Sale, Black Friday

 
18 foot high Woolly Mammoth skeleton was sold in an auction for £150,000 today...."to a telephone bidder"... Found in the ice somewhere in Eastern Europe, its skull took 4 people to lift. There was an odd and slightly macabre programme on TV where they attempted to extract DNA from a well-preserved mammoth from Siberia. A private company in Korea is attempting to clone a mammoth....slightly disturbing......

Wednesday 26 November 2014

Put 'em Up!

The 75 year old costume form the Wizard of Oz has been sold at auction for $3 Million



Tuesday 25 November 2014

Grouse House


 
Robin swears he saw a grouse on our roof this morning......


Thursday 20 November 2014

Festive Ninja Grassheads

 
Creations for the D of E Christmas Fayre at Shepley Bridge Marina, Mirfield  on Saturday 29th Nov. How much more fun can you have with sawdust and a pair of tights??

Sunday 16 November 2014

Omnibus

 
Bus related day out in sunny Ravensthorpe, home to Dewsbury Bus Museum, West Riding Omnibus Museum Trust............

On The Buses

 
A great day out on the buses with Marcus at the Dewsbury Bus Museum....

Friday 14 November 2014

Clanger's Comet Impact

 
The Clangers meet Rosetta.....European Space Agency First!!  Comet lander Philae is currently balanced precariously on a comet after 10 years comet chasing with the Rosetta Mission...
Thanks to Brigid for this one!

Thursday 13 November 2014

Tuesday 11 November 2014

Shark House

 
Fancy a  shark on your roof?  Apparently plummeting onto 2 New High Street, Headington,Oxford, the rooftop sculpture (and attached house) is up for rent

Saturday 8 November 2014

To H 6M

 
Other side of the milestone. 6 Miles to Huddersfield

To A 19 M

 
Found this afternoon...18th century milestone. That's 19 miles to Austerlands (Oldham)
 

Chain Cottage

 
Date stone on Chain Cottage, near Marsden, on Meltham Road, once known as the "Chain Road" (there was a chain instead of a toll bar). Blind Jack Metcalfe built the  First Turnpike, the Chain Road in the 1760s....
 See: http://www.crossingthepennines.co.uk/routedetails.html

Olive Branch


Out on the Turnpike trail again....found a great website and walk. The route went along packhorse trails and up from the canalside near Marsden to the Olive Branch restaurant on Manchester Road- this is the date stone from the original inn. " A trade route between Liverpool and Hull passed this way; the inn’s name comes from a settlement with America made by Lord Lewisham, who owned the Dartmouth Estate which covers much of the area. After being Prime Minister during the Napoleonic wars, he was Home Secretary at the time of the Peterloo Massacre in 1819."
See: http://www.crossingthepennines.co.uk/routedetails.html

Tuesday 4 November 2014

Sunday 2 November 2014

Stick at it!

 
 
Dedicated to Ralph Ray, Rambler, 86, who made me a fantastic knobbly walking stick. Thanks Ralph!

Didgeridoo

 
This Year's Guy.......
 
 
...with an extra leg






Diddle Iddle Iddle Um

 
Diddle Iddle Iddle Um, there we go.....slosh on a little dab or two of colour...

 
Can you tell who it is yet?

Can You Tell What It Is Yet?

 
 The head taking shape........
 
 
Sadly, the cork teeth were too hard to attach
 
A couple of champagne corks for the eyes though......any ideas who it is?