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turpsIt's my brother's 40th birthday today. He's also scattering dad's ashes. I'm glad he's finally doing it because Pauline kept asking if he had, but didn't want to ask Chris himself, she felt dad wasn't totally at rest until they were done. Chris has had them a long time, but he's always said he wanted to wait for a nice day and then have a final game of golf with dad, scattering a bit at each hole. Whether he's always intended to wait until his birthday or it just hit him that it's finally the right time I don't know. But it was something he always took seriously as it was dad's last request. So I hope their last game is going well.
I went to see Star Trek and it was excellent. Touching and exciting and I really did enjoy every moment.
We also went to Beamish one day. It's a huge working museum with shops and a pit village and loads of other things. The whole site is ringed by trams you can travel on, but it was still a lot of walking and by the time we got home on the night I was good for nothing but soaking in a hot bath.
One of the trams and the assessable bus. We used the trams all day because the buses got filled very fast. It did mean a bit extra walking as the trams didn't go down to the pit village, but that was fine. But man, they're high things to climb into and out of.
There was a demonstration of how sasperella tablet sweets are made. Beamish has a working sweet shop and they make all the traditional sweets themselves. It was a really interesting thing to watch, but that guy must have arm muscles of steel due to all the mixing, kneading, and then rolling out of the sweets. The moulds were really cool, and I loved how, once the sweet strips were hard, all he had to do was bash the roll and magically actual individual sweets would appear. We got to take some and try them at the end, and they were delicious.
The only annoying thing was a lady who kept trying to push her kid to the front. You can see the people in the photos, there were more children in front of them and I took the photos by holding my phone high in the air, so there's another three rows between me and the front, and this lady thought her kid had the right to get to the very front, and was very put out when he couldn't worm himself in.
They also have a working bakery, and this huge-ass thing is on all day kneading dough.
This was from the hardware store. I love all the little details you see when you look around. Everything is authentic, picked up and saved from various places.
We bought a loaf of bread from the bakery and James couldn't wait to get stuck in. We were eating in the park in the middle of the 1900s town. It was so peaceful there, and I loved how you could see the museum staff wandering around in their era appropriate uniforms.
We had a visit to the pub. While there someone else asked why sawdust was on the floor. The lady asking looked disgusted to hear that back in the day the miners would spit on the floor to get the coal dust out of their throat and lungs. So it was just easier to sweep saw dust up at the end of the night.
James bought a half beer-shandy. He said it wasn't very nice, mainly because it was warm.
They have a tiny fairground with a carousel and shuggie boats.
A close up of a range in one of the pit houses. Mainly I was amused at the drying pink bloomers.
Looking down at the row of pit houses. There was also a working church, school, meeting hall, pit pony stable, pit you could go down, a fish shop and many little buildings you could look in and explore. All are authentic, brought from other places and rebuilt in Beamish.
A netty, but mam says it's a posh one as the one she had in her house wasn't white-washed. We live in a former pit village and my granddad was a miner, so mam actually lived in a pit house when she was small.
Another of the buses.
It's been a good week, included in that a visit to Lush where they gave me a free fresh face mask and we discussed new products and the Christmas range and just, man, that shop remains my favourite always.
I went to see Star Trek and it was excellent. Touching and exciting and I really did enjoy every moment.
We also went to Beamish one day. It's a huge working museum with shops and a pit village and loads of other things. The whole site is ringed by trams you can travel on, but it was still a lot of walking and by the time we got home on the night I was good for nothing but soaking in a hot bath.
One of the trams and the assessable bus. We used the trams all day because the buses got filled very fast. It did mean a bit extra walking as the trams didn't go down to the pit village, but that was fine. But man, they're high things to climb into and out of.
There was a demonstration of how sasperella tablet sweets are made. Beamish has a working sweet shop and they make all the traditional sweets themselves. It was a really interesting thing to watch, but that guy must have arm muscles of steel due to all the mixing, kneading, and then rolling out of the sweets. The moulds were really cool, and I loved how, once the sweet strips were hard, all he had to do was bash the roll and magically actual individual sweets would appear. We got to take some and try them at the end, and they were delicious.
The only annoying thing was a lady who kept trying to push her kid to the front. You can see the people in the photos, there were more children in front of them and I took the photos by holding my phone high in the air, so there's another three rows between me and the front, and this lady thought her kid had the right to get to the very front, and was very put out when he couldn't worm himself in.
They also have a working bakery, and this huge-ass thing is on all day kneading dough.
This was from the hardware store. I love all the little details you see when you look around. Everything is authentic, picked up and saved from various places.
We bought a loaf of bread from the bakery and James couldn't wait to get stuck in. We were eating in the park in the middle of the 1900s town. It was so peaceful there, and I loved how you could see the museum staff wandering around in their era appropriate uniforms.
We had a visit to the pub. While there someone else asked why sawdust was on the floor. The lady asking looked disgusted to hear that back in the day the miners would spit on the floor to get the coal dust out of their throat and lungs. So it was just easier to sweep saw dust up at the end of the night.
James bought a half beer-shandy. He said it wasn't very nice, mainly because it was warm.
They have a tiny fairground with a carousel and shuggie boats.
A close up of a range in one of the pit houses. Mainly I was amused at the drying pink bloomers.
Looking down at the row of pit houses. There was also a working church, school, meeting hall, pit pony stable, pit you could go down, a fish shop and many little buildings you could look in and explore. All are authentic, brought from other places and rebuilt in Beamish.
A netty, but mam says it's a posh one as the one she had in her house wasn't white-washed. We live in a former pit village and my granddad was a miner, so mam actually lived in a pit house when she was small.
Another of the buses.
It's been a good week, included in that a visit to Lush where they gave me a free fresh face mask and we discussed new products and the Christmas range and just, man, that shop remains my favourite always.
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Date: 2016-07-29 07:12 pm (UTC)Beamish looks amazing!
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Date: 2016-07-30 08:48 am (UTC)Beamish is great! I enjoyed the day a lot, especially trundling around on the trams.
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Date: 2016-08-01 07:18 pm (UTC)Ooh, Beamish looks absolutely fabulous! I love places like that! And it's so big. I bet you could spend several days there and still not being able to see all of it.
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Date: 2016-08-02 08:26 am (UTC)Beamish is fabulous, and you're right about it being big. They've plans to make it even bigger, too. One of the best plans is to rebuild a coach house people can actually stay in overnight. I think that would be incredibly cool.
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Date: 2016-08-06 06:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-08 10:25 am (UTC)OTP for sure *g*