Our final few days in Yorkshire included a trip around the excellent York castle museum with its atmospheric reconstruction of Victorian streets and where to my horror i found that so much of what is familiar from my life has now become an exhibit in a museum, not just the 50s/60s living room but the 'new' kitchen we had in Sidcup in the late 80s and the toys the kids played with and our first computer!
The weather front had finally reached us and we had a blowy day in Nidderdale visiting a strange new and incongruous stone sculpture and viewpoint over a quarry at Coldstone Cuts with wonderful views over the countryside but almost too cold and windy to take the camera out. We found a fantastic old fashioned sweet shop in Pateley Bridge where we bought old favourites, floral gums and
aniseed balls.
Back home we have discovered Coolings Garden centre with its nature trail and i bought rosemary, thyme and mint to start my long desired herb garden. Lovingly placed in compost in tubs which required the purchase of fetching fluorescent pink gardening gloves- such a pity to get them dirty!
Yesterday we took advantage of the last forecast sunny day for a walk in Kent near Sevenoaks. After a promising start it unravelled a bit as we got lost and had a nervy crossing of a field with too many bullocks for comfort and then I managed to go flying on a pot-holed country lane. My thanks to the car driver who was not going so fast that he couldnt stop before running me over. However the sprained ankle means i am grounded for a while which is a real pain in more ways than one!