We finished our trip to Chester today with a few caches further afield from the city to break up the journey home. To be honest, this was the first time away from Kit, our lovely cat, and we’d both missed her muchly. Mrs Pitts’ sister and her partner came to stay at our house while […]
In many ways today has been quite irritating. Geocaching are providing a souvenir every day in August – these are fairly rare and only come out on special days so this is an event people in the caching community are quite excited about. We began with a really easy geocaching find, GC435N5, Lady Laugh-A-Lot’s Kakuro. […]
Today we’ve wandered around Chester a lot – visited shops and seen sights. One of those sights was pebble dashed crash barriers between a road – because that’s the last thing you need when you’ve lost control of your car, exacerbating the damage with incredibly bumpy barriers. Anyway, these are the caches we’ve found today. […]
Most of today was spent in Chester Zoo. It’s a lovely place, worth visiting once in your life. Saw plenty of animals – the weather was pretty good so very little was hiding away. The jaguars were missing (the exhibition is called the Spirit of the Jaguar and that’s pretty much all we saw). The […]
As you’ve probably no doubt noticed, photography has become something of a hobby for me recently. There’s something quite nice about going to places and finding ways to frame their lovliness and then displaying that to the world. This summer holiday I went around quite a few places – some local, some on my long […]
Brookside Miniature Railway is a time established miniature railway and is well known throughout the United Kingdom. The railway is situated in Brookside Garden Centre, Poynton, near Stockport and Macclesfield. Orignally as a 5 inch gauge “there and back”, it progressed by stepping up a gauge to 7 1/4 inch. In 1972, a 5 inch […]
Nestling on the edge of the Peak District, Lyme Park was once home to the Legh family and, in its heyday a great sporting estate. Enjoy lavish interiors, try out the piano, read a book in the library, or take the children to play in the nursery bedroom. The 1,300 acre estate with its medieval herd […]
Quarry Bank Mill overflows with the atmosphere of the Industrial Revolution. A visit to the cotton mill, powered by Europe’s most powerful working waterwheel will certainly stimulate your senses. The clatter of machinery and hiss of steam engines make an astonishing noise. Visit the stunning garden, the Greg family’s picturesque valley retreat adjoining the mill. Stroll […]
Open since 1987, Stockley Farm is an organic farm set in the beautiful Cheshire Countryside on the Arley Estate.
Iconic Tudor Manor House – logically it should not still be standing up! Seeing the tumbling architecture of Little Moreton Hall for the first time, engineers in 1990 could not believe their eyes. Fortunately this timber-framed building, curled around with a scenic moat, has defied logic for over 500 years. Nestled at the back of the […]