Monday 29 September 2014

HEADING NORTH

Friday saw us leave Leeds and take the road to Northumberland, where we made for a very nice little village called Longframlington.  Now what this village has is a quilt shop called STITCHIN HEAVEN.  The owners Anne and Mick made us welcome and then I met Lucie,  from Lucie the Happy Quilter.  Meeting her was great and we had a little chat, but as she was working, we left and went on to Jedburgh to meet another blogging friend Anne, from Frayed at the Edge.  I think she was quite surprised to see us.  Had a cup of tea, whilst we talked and then let her get on her way, as her hubby was getting the meal that night and she didn't want to be late.  What a wonderful day I had.
Of course going to Quilt Shops meant that I did buy some fabric!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Will take a photo later, when I have some good light.

Anne and I.


Saturday we met my niece, her husband and 2 small children.  We spent the day exploring the Beamish Open Air Museum, which is  a living history museum of the north of England. It was very overcast and drizzly, but there is so much to see and do, that I'm sure you could take a few days.  We saw how coal miners worked, went on a very ancient type of steam train, saw how dentists were in the late 1800's where you paid for morphine and laughing gas before you had the treatment in case you died whilst in the chair.  The instruments looked "ghastly".  There were all sorts of old fashioned shops, houses, farm workers cottages and lots we didn't see. 

29th September.
So sorry I've not posted lately, but I have no proper internet access where we are staying now and am madly doing this at MacDonalds.  I may not get a chance to update till we get home and I'd had the first part of this post as a draft. (Photos take so long to load that I'm just writing instead).  We've had wonderful times so far, but leave on Tuesday 7/10 and this week, we seem to be doing a lot of catching for farewell outings with family and friends.  Thanks to all who have commented and I'll try and do the odd catchup on your blogs when I can.  Take care all and have a great week.
Susan.

9 comments:

  1. I think you're going to be worn out by the time you get home, you've been so busy whilst you've been here. It's many years since I visited Beamish but I'd like to go again, I remember it being really interesting. Hope we can catch up again before you go home.

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  2. Beamish is really great isn't it?

    I reckon you'll need a holiday when you get home with all the travelling and visiting you've packed in to this trip.

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  3. Glad to know you are having a good time! xx

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  4. You must be having a wonderful time. I am very grateful for modern dentistry and medicine. Those old instruments are scary. So nice that you got to meet some of your blogging friends.

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  5. Hi Susan, just did a catch up read, looks like you are still having a great time. Lovely pictures, the dales are so pretty. :)

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  6. It sounds as if you have been having a fantastic but busy time susan . I haven't done a blog post for ages as I haven't had much time but hope we could still meet up with Jo before you return home xx

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  7. You are clearly having a brilliant time, I'm amazed you've had time to blog at all! You can do a big catch up when you get home. x

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  8. It's been a whirlwind visit. I hope you enjoyed yourselves.

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  9. Hi Susan, I so enjoyed seeing you last week and thank you for all the goodies!!! Hope you have a safe journey home and I look forward to reading your blog when you get back. G xxx

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