ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 48TH OF 2023

 Morning all tis Friday time for

Well we've had a busy busy week because we've been off from work last Friday we had tickets to go to Chatsworth to enjoy the Christmas market, the house and garden and then the light trail around the garden.  I have to say it was a brilliant day albeit long, we set off at 9.30am and didn't arrive back until 7.30pm with 17,000 steps on our Fitbits to prove the busy day we'd had. 

The inside of the house was beautiful as always

we particularly admired the handiwork of these hand cut paper pieces

my favourite display were the snowmen along one of the corridors

The evil face of the glitterball snowman whose stolen the carrot really is quite intense!

Outside the blue skies meant only one thing, it was absolutely freezing!

The maze all prepared for the light trail with the globe lights

and the theme this year 24 days of advent and they turned the south face into an advent calendar with 24 doors that opened in sequence to music, it really was spectacular!

With different scenes played out. 

Saturday arrived and we had a busy day tootling around the house before heading to Barnsley in the evening for their second Bright Nights evening, said 23 year old and his wife came as well. 

First up the town hall that had a Middle Earth exhibition showing 

then on to the civic for unfurled clouds, an interactive light installations, affected by movement underneath it created a thunder storm with sound effects included and had written word from the Tempest play

Then another exhibition in the Civic which was spectacular, a really powerful piece of work it has to be said, daughter in law, me and said 23 year posed underneath, daughter in law commented that it looked like we were posing for our 'next album cover' which had us in hysterics

hence the next picture 

and a light installation in the main museum at the Cooper gallery

it was overall a wonderful evening. 

Sunday and we had a busy day and then in the evening we went to see the Luke Jerram piece Museum of the Moon at the Minster in town, it was lovely to see it in the church setting but it was definitely a tight squeeze

Monday was a dismal day so we tootled around the house but on Tuesday we ventured to Hardwick Hall to see their Christmas display.  It was somewhat sparse when compared to previous years, but they did put it on in an Elizabethan theme, I loved this staircase piece, we've done something similar at home but on the edges so we can still walk up and down. 

We got given a lantern to mooch around the house which made it very atmospheric. 

There were a few writing stations based around the house encouraged by posts by the Lord of Misrule and I must admit to taking the time to sit and write and enjoy the prompt. 

Outside and we found a kissing bough in one of the garden rooms, the room smelt beautiful with orange pomanders dotted with cloves and cinnamon hanging from the garland. 

Wednesday was a busy day getting jobs done, I don't know whether I'm more behind this year or whether I'm going to end up very in front if that makes sense.  But we did venture out at night to watch a one man show of A Christmas Carol which was excellent. 

Thursday and I encouraged hubby to have a day doing things that he wanted to do, rather than following my lead, he blitzed several episodes of 'The Continental' which he really enjoyed whilst I wrapped gifts, sorted out Christmas cookie jars and generally did crafty type bits with Harry Potter playing in the background, a lovely day doing what I fancied which is nice but I'm feeling very tired tonight. 

I hope you've had a good week.

Hugs

ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 11TH OF 2022

 Morning lovely people tis Friday time for 

Well last Thursday night me and hubby had a date night which consisted of a meal out at a restaurant attached to the local college, we had a lovely meal and a lovely evening in there, so relaxed, great food and good company, nothing finer. 

Then we headed over the road to the local theatre to watch a local theatre company perform Curtains (a musical who dunnit), it was really well done and we thoroughly enjoyed it despite the slightly uncomfortable seats. 

Friday we popped to Ikea and had a lovely wander around, as the weather wasn't that brilliant 

In the evening we went to Wentworth Woodhouse for WE Wonder Noir, an evening consisting of art installations in the house, this was the first outside

One that had used ash die back trees to create an immersive experience of light and sound in the chapel 

before heading to the star of the show, Museum of the Moon by Luke Jerram (I've now seen all three of these amazing installations, his Earth (Gaia), Mars and now the Moon)

We even laid down on the floor in the marble room and took in the sight above us - utterly stunning

Other artworks included a few performance art pieces to video, but some were light installations, this one in the room renowned for the original artwork depicting a similar stance for a horse owned by the family. 

This room had an installation where the fans ran and then slowed so the copper tubes rang, it was lovely

and then this was a piece of digital art in the library again we ended up laid on the floor taking it in, but it was really amazing, apart from the moon this was our second favourite piece. 

I also loved the shot from outside the room of the moon hanging inside (I took a similar shot of Gaia a few years ago). 

On Saturday we had a bit of a slow day, but we did pop to see my Mum for a few hours and also managed to catch up with my sister which was lovely. 

On Sunday we headed to YSP a new exhibition by Robert Indiana had opened in the underground gallery and so we were immersed in lots of new art (nothing finer)

Inside there were lit pieces

and those made from recycled materials, definitely of the 'pop art' era, I loved all of the work 

back outside we found a few more pieces

which hubby made me pose in front of so you could see the size of the pieces

then we had a good walk around the park before heading back up the hillside to find this piece of art from the same exhibition. 

A weekend full of art, people and a little bit of downtime - my kind of weekend. 

The rest of the week has tripped along, Monday I worked from home which allowed me to catch up in a way that I haven't been able to catch up for some time which was excellent and then I was in work Tuesday through to Thursday so apart from making tea, the days tripped along at a merry old pace. 

I hope you've had a lovely week too. 

Hugs