Karon and Johns walks (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Friday 6th November As rain was forecast this afternoon we left home early to do a caching walk at Ticknall. We parked behind the village hall in Ticknall and walked towards Calke Abbey, before we got to the drive we turned left and walked towards the new plantation and headed towards Vees wood. We had a diversion to find the first cache and then followed the path through the new woods. It was quite...
Warwick's Wool Work (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
A NEW CAMERA... Back in June my husband Paul gave me a new camera for my birthday. How lucky was I to get a digital SLR Lumix G1 from him...xxxxx big kisses and big thank you to my man! So I have been playing around with it and taking lots and lots and lots of pics. Then my friend Hazel told me about a photography workshop she had been on at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire run by Jean Napier and how good...
A Dabble at Blogging (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
This Saturday 31st Oct 2009. I arrived 10 years ago exactly in Derbyshire, on Sunday 31 Oct 1999, the day before I started out with bmi. It was bitter cold and the All Blacks capitulated to France and I was on my own to face the misery. Victoria had driven back south, where she had two more weeks of work Queen Marys in East Grnstead, Surrey. I was sorry that night. 10 years on, and I survived it obviously....
Community News - Leicester Mercury (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Clarendon Park: The last meeting of Leicester U3A for this year will be held on Tuesday, November 10, in the hall at Christchurch, Clarendon Park Road. Visitors are invited to attend up to two events at a cost of £2 each to see whether they would like to join. The meeting will start at 2.30pm and refreshments are served afterwards. For details, call the secretary on 0116 291 1814. Speaker will...
Waveney Valley Blog (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
Earlier this year I entered three images into the BWPA (British Wildlife Photography Awards ), in August I received an email from BWPA congratulating me that one of my images had been short listed. Submitted images I’m very pleased to announce that my image of a Stoat appearing from a drain has been selected for a commendation in the Urban Wildlife category and will form part of a national exhibition...
Living with a boy (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
The boyfriend, me and the mother spent the weekend down in Ashby visiting my sister and her family. We had a date on the Friday evening with Calke Abbey where my sister had got us all tickets to the Back to the 80s concert that's been doing the rounds over the past few months. It was actually in Hull in East Park for its first date but I never heard about it. I was a little apprhensive, although technically...
Mark (not George) (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
This year was the last ever Calke Abbey Bonfire. My mate Mark James's father was, until he retired this year, the Gatekeeper at Calke Abbey in Ticknall, Derbyshire. For quite a few years now, Mark, another mate Paul, and in later years Paul's dad and brother have been having quite spectacular bonfire parties, with food, and a Hallowe'en themed 'scary walk'. As it was the last year, I decided to video...
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