February Photo Scavenger Hunt

Here we are again....
At the risk of repeating myself, I still can't believe how many people have joined in with my little idea! It has just grown and grown!

I was lucky to get quite a few of this month's list on my trip to London, but I only snapped the park bench and postbox today ... talk about last minute!

Something heart shaped

 A big lorry ... next to our little caravan

 Eyes in the Egyptian Gallery at the British Museum

 Something red ... on Horse Guard's parade

 Something stripy at Covent Garden

 A big round clock ... they don't come much bigger than Big Ben

 A bridge .... at Westminster

A musical instrument .... in my classroom.

A Newspaper headline ... our glorious government shows typical lack of regard for their citizens!

My shoes

Our village postboxa park bench ... Mirror park, Lower Heswall

Don't forget to click on the link on my sidebar ... lots of people are putting their collections on Flickr. You are very welcome to take that link to put on your own blog

Project 365 ~ Week 8

I'm finding this project really difficult to keep up with, as I just feel I do the same old things every day. 
I go to work and come home ... full stop! So apologies if this is really boring! I need to learn to look for 'a moment' each day.

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Inca's collection of favourite toys which she carries from room to room all day long. The minute I put them away into her toy basket she doggedly gets them all out again and puts them back exactly where she had them !

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A lovely sunset this evening

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My young man passed his driving test today ~ so I've got a whole new set of worries as he drives off alone to meet his friends.

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My miniature daffs are finally open in the garden. Spring must be just around the corner!

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A fund raiser day in school. We've been growing daffodils for the Marie Curie Mini Pots of Care project. Henry Bear came along to thank the children! (Don't tell the children ... but most of the original daffodils turned into mush over the harsh winter and had to be hurriedly replaced this week! A mad dash to Netto saved the day!)

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Five minutes peace ... the class are having PE with another teacher while I have my PPA .... (planning,preparation and assessment time). A ray of sunshine lights up the walls. We're  still camping out in another room while the builders are messing up  improving our classroom.

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I've survived my first full five day week in over eight months (I've only been doing four days between Christmas and half-term). No cooking tonight .... we've got a 'dine in' meal from M&S.

February Scavenger Hunt

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's photos for February. I really enjoyed looking at the January pictures, and I think we may have even more people involved this month!

We've got a problem with linking them this time ..... the 'Linky' site I used last month is no longer free ... and I'm very dubious about sending my bank details to some random website in the USA.
The Flickr group account is set up and you can add your photos there if you want to ... just click on the link on my side bar. If you can't do that , then just post your pictures and we'll all look out for them!

Last day is Monday ... and I've got the list for March all ready to post for Tuesday!

Right, I've got three more photos to take so that's my mission this weekend!

Canterbury Tales

For many summers now we've driven down to Dover on our way to catch the ferry to France. Each time we've seen the signs for Canterbury, we've always said that we'd go there one day.

Well, as we staying on the very eastern edge of London we realised that we were only about an hour away~ so a trip was planned. We were not disappointed. It was well worth the detour.

The most popular place in Canterbury is the cathedral. It is just stunning ... a thousand years of history all around you. I think it's the most beautiful cathedral we've ever seen!

 Stunningly beautiful details everywhere you look.

Mr B. always likes to have lots of information so he doesn't miss anything important, so these audio guides were essential. Without them we would never have found the sacred place where Thomas Becket was murdered. 

The lighted candle marks the place where his golden jewelled tomb used to stand. We learned that it was removed on the orders of Henry VIII, who wanted to get rid of the reminder of a priest who stood up to a tyrant king ... and looted the treasure for his own coffers.

We heard the stories behind the beautiful stained glass windows ....

and discovered the tomb of the Black Prince.

I'd love to live right here! 

We had a lovely lunch in a Japanese noodle bar ... a new experience for us ... but we'd definitely go again!

Finally, we headed here to savour Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

I did The Wife of Bath's Tale for A Level Literature many moons ago ... in fact so long ago, I'd completely forgotten the story. It all came flooding back to me from the mists of time as "we travelled with the pilgims" in this charming little museum. Great fun! I wish now, that I'd bought the book in the museum shop. I might pop over to Amazon and see what they've got! 

I can't wait for our next trip in the Easter holidays, when we're heading down to Cheddar Gorge.

The London Trip

We took the caravan down to London and stayed at The Abbey Wood Caravan Club Site which is not far from Greenwich. The rail link into London was a short walk away and we could get into the city centre within thirty minutes.

First on our list was the British Museum because we had tickets for ....

... this Egyptian exhibition ... sadly no photos allowed. 

If truth be told, I found the exhibition a little disappointing ... very beautiful in parts but really dull. 

I teach the Egyptians every year, and the part the children love best is the making of the mummies and the weighing of the heart ceremonies. They could have done it so much better!  

However,  it was a treat to see some of the things in our textbooks in real life!

I love this embalmed cat!

Next stop was Covent Garden

The church of St Martin-in-the-fields

and Trafalgar Square which was full of Barcelona fans ready for the match at Arsenal's ground later that evening.

We didn't hang around because it was freezing.

From Trafalgar Square Big Ben looks deceivingly close so we decided to take a wander down to Westminster.

I've always loved this statue of Boudicca near Westminster Bridge.

By now our feet were aching ... it would have been lovely to jump on an old route master bus ... but we needed to go in the opposite direction to catch the train back to our van. No nights out on the town for us .... we were shattered!

On day two our daughter came down by train from the NorthEast to meet up with us.

We visited Tate Britain to see our favourite Pre-Raphaelite paintings

But we also enjoyed some of the newer pieces like this amazing chandelier which flashed on and off

and we had fun with this curved mirror too.

 We had a quick visit to Harrods where we wanted to see the Food Hall

 The decor is completely over the top but stunning!

Yes, the sign is correct ~ this cake did cost almost two thousand pounds!

 Later, a cupcake was purchased from here ... 

 and we browsed the shops in Notting Hill.

We actually stayed up quite late on Thursday night, and after we saw our lovely girl off home we went to see a show.

We managed to get tickets to see "Ghost Stories" at the Duke of York Theatre, and found ourselves sitting in the very front row, worryingly close enough to see all the horror unfold right before our very eyes. Great fun, quite jumpy in parts and poor Mr B had a bruised hand at the end as I clung on tight!

So there we have it, a whistle stop of our tour of London ... none of the big sights or attractions but we visited places which have been on our 'to do' list for some time!