Day 105
April 15, 2010An evening out at the theatre in Sheffield to see Calendar Girls. What a great show and amazed to see the transformation in the city centre. I’ll be back with my camera!
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An evening out at the theatre in Sheffield to see Calendar Girls. What a great show and amazed to see the transformation in the city centre. I’ll be back with my camera!
The last ‘Spring‘ photo…..
These Lobelia’s are basking in the springtime sun and not affected by volcanic ash which has paralysed our air transport systems.
A beautiful sunny day and most of it spent in the garden with friends, playing three dimensional connect-4.
Louise started her chemotherapy last Thursday. She was good on Friday, but I’ve been worrying about her all week-end because she hasn’t telephoned.
I eventually called her after a day spent reading The C-Word by Lisa Lynch.
She’s not had a great week-end but seemed in good spirits. I’m so sad that my lovely sister has to go through such an experience.
Spring is really here!
We had a beautiful walk this morning, through Clumber Park. The river and bridge over it made a very nice picture. Kairen was fretting that I was going to fall in. Given my track record with doing just that she was relieved that I only paddled to get the photograph.
The bridge was the original approach to Clumber Park prior to the development of the famous lime tree avenue. Those who run Clumber Park say they know it was built in the 1760s. It was built in a classical style over the River Poulter, which was dammed to form the famous Clumber Park lake.
We have a diary from a visitor who came in 1762 and we know work was underway then,” says Simon Chesters-Thompson, regional curator for the National Trust who run the park.
Threats
The bridge has survived for more than 200 years but Simon says it still faces modern day threats.
“The bridge has had two terrible threats in recent decades
“Many of the balustrades have been replaced due to people driving through them on a regular basis.
“The other threat has come from mining. The mines run all the way under Clumber Park and many of the structures have suffered terrible subsidence. But the bridge has survived.”
We had a ‘long lunch’today and spotted this beautiful garden on the way home.
Rose Cottage was built in 1898 and the garden is a picture postcard English country garden.
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