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Month: August 2017 (Page 2 of 3)
Hebden’s Pink Picnic
The day started with a trip to the Halifax Agricultural fair
A David Hockney garden
Hey diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon
Sheep racing (chased by a sheep dog)
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My host, Nicola, preparing for the civil rights lecture
Street art on the square
Nicola all decked out for the conclusion of Happy Valley Pride week; a disco at the Trades
Manchester cathedral was the venue for many of my ancestors’ weddings. It’s undergoing major refurbishment inside and out
Bee keeping on top of the tower!
A street art installation encouraging kids to read over the summer holidays
A chili lunch outdoors on a chilly day
At the National Football museum
From my window back at th’ mill
A drag makeup workshop
Bourgeois and Maurice cabaret
Watch one of the songs they performed:
I decided to go back to Todmorden Market
Yummy!
Then my laptop went on the blink which necessitated a trip to the Mac store in Leeds: 50 minutes by train
I discovered this underground river underneath the railway station in Leeds!
This larger than life statue was above my head in the shopping centre
Back home on my deck overlooking the canal I tucked into the goodies I’d purchased at Todmorden market
In the evening I attended a cabaret called Listen with Mother. Here’s my Airb&b host (and Happy Valley Pride director) checking the guest list.
There was heavy rain overnight and I wasn’t sure that we should risk a long walk over the moors but I’d been wanting to take the old Haworth road with its scattered farms and pack horse trails.
Stoodley Pike in the distance
Guess which one I ordered from this menu at the Robin Hood in Pecket Well
Basking on the beach in the Caribbean? No, the Crown in Hebden Bridge
Street scene in Lerwick
The school where my guide James boarded
Outside cabin for the 12 hour sailing from Lerwick to Aberdeen
Au revoir, Lerwick
Reading a book by Ann Cleve’s about Shetland. In was her detective series on tv that first attracted me to these remote islands
Morning in Aberdeen through my cabin window
Changing trains in Preston
First day of Happy Valley Pride
Opening gala was a quiz night at Old Gate
These were tough questions!
Croft house museum
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Neolithic burial mound – Unstan tomb. 5000 years old
Emerging
Inside
Is this a Shetland pony?
Our tour group and guide, Clive. Mull Head nature reserve
Italian chapel constructed by prisoners of war out of 2 Nissan huts. Tromps d’oeuil everwhere
Outside the chapel
Yummy
View from my bed at 10 pm. There’s a jet skier in the bay, Orkney.
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