Another jigsaw makes Heidi yawn:
It’s so boring – nothing to chase, so she’s off:
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Saturday Snapshot
It’s a dull, grey day here today and snow is forecast for later on:
High up in a tree, a birds’s nest left from last year:
It’s a day to sit, curled up with a book in front of the fire:
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Saturday Snapshots: Alnwick Treehouse
I’ve posted photos of our visit to Alnwick Castle in Northumberland before. Adjacent to the Castle is Alnwick Garden, a formal garden with a cascading fountain. Also in the Garden there is a fantastic Treehouse and a Poison Garden, safely secured behind locked gates. When we were there there a very long queue to go into the Poison Garden, so we left that for another day and went to Treehouse.
It’s an enormous structure made from sustainably sourced cedar, redwood and pine, extending high up into the trees.
There are wobbly walkways:
and a restaurant:
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Saturday Snapshots – on Sunday
A few years ago we had a holiday in Gloucestershire – in Painswick. I’ve posted some photos in the past but not these of a walk in Frith Wood, which is on a ridge between Slad and Painswick. It’s a beautiful, magical wood of magnificent beech trees, with a mix of oak, ash and sycamore and it’s a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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Saturday Snapshot
Another photo of Heidi. She likes drinking the bath water. In this photo she’s waiting for the water to get to a level she can reach without getting wet:
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Saturday Snapshots
This is the 18th century Old Marriage House in Coldstream. It was also the Toll House for the bridge, which crosses the River Tweed from Coldstream in Scotland to Cornhill-on-Tweed in England. The Old Marriage House is at the Scottish end of the bridge and is now a private home. But from 1754 until 1856 it was popular (like the Smithy at Gretna Green) for runaway marriages, because during that period under Scottish law couples could get married without parental consent and without giving prior public notice.
In the 19th century 1,446 ‘irregular’ marriages, valid in Scots law were conducted by ‘priests’, whose numbers included local men such as shoemakers and molecatchers. During that period five earls and at least two, maybe three, Lord Chancellors of England were married there.
This is the Coldstream Bridge, built between 1763-6, designed by John Smeaton. It replaced the old ford across the river.
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