A FUNNY DAY OUT

UK TRIP
Trying to catch up on some photos and great days out on our recent trip.
On the Tuesday before we came home, we decided that hubby really wanted to go to The Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland, Lancashire, which has been on his list for a couple of years.  We set out early and headed for the M62 and what happened?  Traffic jam and as the Stobart drivers say, "a parking lot".  Once we got going again, we arrived at the museum and thought it looked rather deserted and you can guess by now, what our day was going to pan out like.  Opening days are Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  Oh dear!  We looked at our trusty map and decided on a route to take home and saw that there was an an English Heritage site called Sawley Abbey, so as we'd been lent cards (naughty), by S-I-L we thought we'd take a look.  Lunch on the way at MacDonalds(giggle), and finally found the abbey and again we had to have a good laugh.  This site is a little sad, but is undergoing some repairs to make it safe.  I do find these places fascinating, thinking about who has lived and trod there long ago.

A wall with lovely pieces of rescued stones.

Scaffolding for the repair work.

Old paving reminding me of a simple quilt pattern (giggle).

A rather precarious looking piece of wall.

Once we'd looked around the site, which we didn't have to pay or show our cards to get into, we went for a walk around the village.  It was lovely.

The village school.  Notice the two doors at each end, with boys above one and girls above the other.  How times have changed.

The arched bridge over the river where saw five of the biggest brown trout I'd ever seen.

Countryside views to die for.

 Once we left Sawley, our thoughts turned to afternoon tea and luckily we were passing through a village called Holden and saw a nursery cum cafe and decided to stop.  This was Holden Clough Nursery which I've since seen advertised in The English Garden magazine.  Needing to go to the little girls room, hubby ordered me a Deluxe Hot Chocolate, which when it was put on the table was amazing.  Hot chocolate smothered in squirty cream (which liquidises so quickly) and dozens of little marshmallows.  I made one heck of a mess and had to scoop the marshmallows off before I could drink it.  BTW, the nursery was great, but of course I couldn't take anything home with me.

We left there to make our way back to Leeds through beautiful countryside and made the decision we'd forget the budget and have tea somewhere on the way, as it would be rather late to eat when we got back.  I'd seen a pub in Addingham, just outside Skipton with a rather funny name and said that we could try there.  I think you may know what is coming next.  They don't serve hot meals on Tuesdays!!!!!!!!!!!!  By this time we couldn't stop laughing as when a day is like this one , what else can you do.

Said pub.

Now, we had to work out where to eat, so decided on a Fish Restaurant that hubby's siblings raved about,  Well, just to make the day more interesting, it was the worst meal we had the whole time we were in UK and we both enjoy eating out over there very much.  As you see, it was a very funny day all round.

TWO CHRISTMASY THINGS.

I've posted about Geelong before and we went there on Wednesday last week to pick up a skylight for our caravan and stayed to see the lights come alive on their floating Xmas tree.  Below is a photo, although I did take a short video with the music playing, but it only works sideways so this will have to do.

The tree with stars that change colour and also plays a few Xmas carols.  It looks better when it is darker, but as it takes us just over an hour to get home, we stayed till it started lighting up only.

Saturday saw us make a quick trip over to Warragul to catch our solicitor before the holiday break and it was market day. (which has only started since we left),  I caught a photo of this.

Aren't they beautiful.

All for now fellow bloggers and I may do one more catch up post on UK before Xmas.
Hope you are all having a good week leading up to the big day.  Don't stress too much and  take the time to enjoy.
Susan.