Badger Galore
Staying ‘Up Over’ for a while.
The London Lads strike again!
So…last weekend we were back in London to amuse the boy for the day as his pre-school was shut for a training day. We went to ‘Discover’ in Stratford, an Imaginative Play centre and then we took him for a chicken pox jab in Islington. He didn’t even flinch! The Pharmacist at the chemist couldn’t believe it. We had a well deserved ice cream afterwards.
Collecting the past.
So…after being forced to change the website recently I am a little more uneasy and worried about losing all that is contained on these pages in the future. It is a document of my life since October 2013. What happens when I am not around or able to pay the domain fee or website subscription anymore, does it all disappear for good?
I am, therefore, currently copying and saving everything from the start. It is going to take quite a while to complete and when I have finished I want to go back and read everything again because in the process of collecting it all I am reading snippets and finding lots that I had forgotten about. There is just too much to lose.
Alnwick and Amble.
So…on Saturday we went to see the cherry blossom at the Alnwick Garden.
The Cherry Orchard there is planted with 326 Prunus serrulata ‘Taihaku’ trees, a variety of ornamental cherry tree. The Taihaku is known as the Great White Cherry as these beautiful trees produce large bright white blossoms each spring, April and May. The blossoms appear along with copper-coloured foliage, while the mature leaves are bright green. Autumn colours range from yellow to orange. It is the largest cherry orchard of its kind in the world.
The ‘Taihaku’ was originally introduced to England in 1900, and was recognised years later in a Sussex garden by plant collector Captain Collingwood Ingram after it had died out in Japan. Ingram became known as ‘Cherry’ Ingram, and was instrumental in re-introducing the tree to Japan. All the Taihaku Trees in the world are descended from the cuttings made by Cherry Ingram in Sussex.
Afterwards we drove to Amble on the east coast and had some lunch before heading back.
To the end of Eden.
So…here are some pictures from a recent ‘walking escape’ by the River Eden at Rockcliffe to where it enters the Solway Firth.
