ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 49TH OF 2024

 Morning lovely people tis Friday time for

So last Saturday we enjoyed a trip to Kelham Island for their Victorian Christmas Market 

My daughter in law enjoyed a Biscoff pancake, hubby enjoyed a Belgian Blue beer

whilst me and said 24 year old enjoyed a hot chocolate

It was a lovely afternoon, then we headed into Sheffield and wandered their Christmas market.

On Sunday we headed around the corner for the Christmas tree festival with a theme of peace and unity which was lovely.

I've put together the cookie jars for this year, you can't tell but these jars are huge!  I make them each year for family and use old coffee jars which I've sterilised, a great re-use of the jars if I'm honest, then I design labels (this year's on Canva) and glue them to the jar with instructions for how to convert them into cookies (adding butter and egg and cooking them)

A busy busy working week, but did a few tasks after work to keep things on an even keel and then on Thursday we went to Wentworth Woodhouse to enjoy

more mice, the theme seems to be following us about this year

this corridor was stunning

and one of the volunteers wanted to know if we wanted a photo together which was so lovely of him. 

I really loved the dining room. 

and the bed positioned on the stairs. 

Then we had a cuppa in the tea room and shared a cheese scone and a cronut (which are still very strange). 

and that my lovely people was the week that was, busy in the run up to Christmas and I'm still finding it hard without Mum, but I'm trying to remain focused on enjoying fun times and reminiscing about the good. 

I hope you've had a grand week. 

Hugs

ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 48TH OF 2024

 Morning lovely people tis Friday time for

Well last Thursday we travelled down to Stratford upon Avon for our annual festive trip to the theatre.  It was technically bought by my husband for my birthday and we had booked a different hotel than normal.  We travelled down up hill and down dale the scene very wintry looking as you can see, but the roads were clear

The first play was the matinee performance of Othello, it was incredibly well done and very sad but I enjoyed it nonetheless

Then we checked into the hotel, a quick spruce up and we headed to Zizzis for tea followed by a return visit to the RSC

Part of the Red Shoe display in the RSC

and the opening set in readiness in the Swan theatre

It is based on the Hans Christian Andersen story and is very very dark and definitely not Christmassy but we enjoyed it nonetheless. 

On Friday we travelled back up and in the evening headed to Barnsley for their 'Bright Nights' technically their light switch on but lots of places to visit and things to see. 

There was a fabulous exhibition in the Town Hall Archives by a local illustrator called Brian Wildsmith, his body of work over his lifetime was amazing. 

Outside we saw the steel nativity 

And the lights around the Town Hall

I loved the living dress in the church, it was so atmospheric, a nod to Barnsley's textile industry

The college had lots of family activities on including a silent disco and the Cooper gallery had further work by Brian Wildsmith

As well as holographic art in the garden, you put your hand in and the holographic butterfly landed on your hand, it was weird because I could 'feel' the butterfly even though it was technically not there. 

Glassworks had an animated display, a nod to a rediscovered Christmas carol called 'Christmas Eve' which was sung live by a local choir. 

And a giant slinky outside the shopping centre.

Saturday and we had a lazy start to the day, before heading to Nostell Priory to watch A Christmas Carol in the afternoon, it was incredibly well done and we really enjoyed this festive delight. 

Sunday and said 24 year old and his lovely wife popped over, it happened to be Stir it Up Sunday, so wishes were dutifully added to the mix before it was cooked

We also got the decorations sorted, I know they are early but given that I had a week off it seemed sensible to sort to leave us free time at weekends. 

I enjoyed reading in front of the fire earlier in the week

Thursday we had a return visit to Chatsworth, I'd booked these in advance and it seemed silly not to use the time. 

This is one of my favourite views

Chatsworth was looking wintry and the deer could easily be seen in the distance.

We stopped and had a cuppa in the stables

We spotted mice that we hadn't seen previously 

I got a few different quirky shots, which I think are lovely

We got the stair shot for a change which is usually full of people

We found this musical mouse

hubby posed in front of one of the trees

And we enjoyed a wander around the garden. 

A fun filled week which I've really enjoyed as hopefully you can see, I hope your week has been grand too. 

Hugs