Good Morning
Before I commence my post, I'm going to send an apology to the lovely Kate and Helen as I simply haven't had a moment to myself this week, I promise to have a lovely browse and catch up hopefully this next week when I can sit and soak up all your lovely news. In the meantime a very hurried
Well we had a lovely weekend last weekend, on thursday we headed off to Chatsworth to watch the Lord Chamberlain's men deliver Romeo and Juliet, despite the inclement forecast we managed to dodge most of the raindrops. we enjoyed a lovely picnic during the evening, the play was fabulous as always and with it being at the lightest time of the year, we didn't need torches to pack up like we normally do in August when they are usually here.
We then stayed at the Wheatsheaf pub in Baslow overnight, so that we could continue on our way on the Friday. We tootled down to Trentham Gardens, I did the official fairy trail which included 21 fairies and insisted on finding them all. Again the weather was kind
This is Bridget because she hands from a Bridge
The remnants of Trentham hall, it really must have been magnificent in its heyday
This is one of my favourite fairies she is known as 'Whimsey'
This one was hard to find and we had to double back a couple of times.
and the final one we sat and posed with 'Poser'
then onwards to Stafford we went, checking in at the Swan hotel, this is where we went for our first date. It is an old coaching in and an absolute treat to stay in. We had a wander around the town, I found Mister Finch's new classroom space
and saw one of his amazing creations in the window
Our main reason for visiting was to see the play, normally held at Stafford Castle, the local authority have moved it to the local theatre due to cost and whilst it was enjoyable it wasn't a patch on a castle play it has to be said, this one was Midsummer Night's Dream, maybe a little too panto for our liking
They had made an effort to decorate the theatre
We also had a visit to Wroxeter's Roman Villa
which is only half an hour away, the original Roman town was slightly larger than Pompeii and although you can only see a tiny proportion of it, it really is impressive.
We had a meal out this was pudding - an amaretto cheesecake
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Main was calzone (sorry blogger is being naughty)
this was us after we'd got ready
It really was a lovely weekend away and on our way back up from Stafford we popped in at Chatsworth
as every squeezing every morsel out of everything that we do and yes I was exhausted at the end of it but wouldn't change it for the world. this week has been mad and crazy in easy measure and suddenly it is Friday morning. I hope you've had amazing weeks I promise to catch up when I get a moment.
Biggest hugs
