We are heading off North in a few minutes, unfortunately, some oik (who wasn’t me) decided to have a shower at 4.00am. There are big signs all over the bathroom thus…
Somehow they forgot. The whole hotel woke up. Luckily it is only an hour’s drive to Darlington. And another hour up to Newcastle. Tomorrow is the drive from Prudhoe to Aberdeen. Probably 4 hours if I have no breaks. The ferry leaves at 17.00 and cars need to be there an hour ahead.
Today was a visit to the Royal Armouries. We used to visit quite a bit around twenty years ago. The Museum is pretty much the same but the outside bit has totally changed causing me much consternation on where to park. In the end I was in the multi story car park. Which was a bloody nightmare in first finding a space and then finding the car didn’t fit the spaces.
My phone died when I got in, so I only managed a few photos…
I did end up spending some pennies on a new book…
We are heading back to Northumberland tomorrow and then heading North to catch the ferry on Saturday night.
Tomorrow is a stop off in Darlington to pick up a beastie for my daughter then into Newcastle for leather for me and a comic book shop for my eldest.
Today we did a hop further down country. It took a couple of hours to go door to door.
We got to the Thackeray with only a minor wobble with the sat nav trying to take us through the back of a hospital.
The museum itself is on a couple of floors with the ubiquitous cafe and gift shop.
It has a good bit where you choose a character and follow them through Leeds in the 1850’s… it wasn’t a good end for a few of them.
They had a pretty good selection of exhibits and information throughout.
I really wanted to find some more of these
I had a hunt in the shop to see if they had any, sadly not. I forgot who did them, but it was to support health reform.
Today was a shopping day with the kids running wild in the Metro Centre. Thankfully every shop they wanted was pretty much close to each other.
We then descended on IKEA… which proved a little expensive (you cannot get IKEA stuff easily or cheaply on Shetland).
Finally we went to our friend house, we saw them last in 2018.
Tomorrow we head to Leeds.
Got off the boat at 07.00 and set off to have breakfast at Dundee. Sadly the cafe opened late. Was short staffed and had nothing gluten free fir my daughter. So we got lunch at a Tesco and headed on down to Edinburgh zoo which was heaving. We were the second last car to get into the car park.
Here is the only animal I took a photo of. Some kind of marmoset.
We left Edinburgh and headed down into Northumberland. I got into my Sister in Laws at 18.30. I am knackered now.
If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?
Lord, Sir John Roxton from The Lost World. I have always loved this character from when I read the book as a child.
I am sat on the boat eating very expensive, okay, food… so technically as I am on the water I am now officially off island for the start of my holidays.
WiFi on the boat is cack so I am posting this now rather than trying to post later.
Tomorrow is Edinburgh zoo then down to the North East of England to stay at my Sister in Law for a couple of Nights thence down to Leeds for a couple of nights.
We are going to the Royal Armouries so if anyone wants any photos of anything let me know and I will give it a go.
I wish I had brought some paints and things to paint. I have brought some things to sort out some ideas for a Nam Skirmish campaign.
So this is my last evening at home for a while so I decided to crack on with the big boys/girls.
Still a bit to do, but it is less to do when I come back. Typically the washer decided to spring a leak today so it will probably be new washer time when I return… that and pay for the car repairs. April is going to be a bloody expensive month!
I am heading off on my holidays on Sunday nights boat. So I thought I would get some painting done. I went for the trolls as I wanted to try some random colour approaches.
Still at the messy stage here.
Just had a thought, are you cavalrymen if you only ride horses… are frog mounted goblins cavalry or are they something else?
But I digress, I just realised the time and I have painted nothing… I did clean up the test bits and pieces.
Bogenwald 