A Day by the Sea

This isn't really by the sea, its a day at Abbey Pumping Station - Seaside Special.

Along side this event Leicester Heritage Bus Running Day takes place as well.

You could go for a ride around the City on these buses.

All the fun of the fair.

The weather was kind and a good day was had by all.

Stonehurst Farm

We visited Stonehurst Farm at the weekend. We have been around the farm before but there is abit more to see.

 Lots to see here.

Some old vehicles.

That the cafe, yes we did go in.

No one was at home.

I wonder how long this has been here?

Maccano Magic

Maccano Magic day at Abbey Pumping Station. Lots of things for big kids as well as small kids all made from Maccano.

All the fun of the fair.

The Clock Tower in the centre of town.

Which you saw here, recently.

A good day, as always.

October in our world



Coventry Transport Museum

Yesterday we went to Coventry Transport Museum

Its a free entry museum in the middle of the town, so we had a wonder around there.

They had a display called Wheels & Waves, an ehibition showing vehicles which British surfers use.

Did you know that you can fit a 9"4 board into a VW Golf, well you can, just. So they claim.

They look good, don't they, I bet they cost a fortune to get them looking that good as well.

Step back in time....

Thrust 2 is a British built Land Speed Record car.

633.468 mph by Richard Nobel OBE at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

We only went around the ground floor as we wanted to look around the town. So we decided to have something to eat in the new cafe at the front of the museum. There used to be one within the museum, but unfortunately this has gone and has been replaced by a chain.

Coventry was bombed during the second world war, the worst attack was on 14th November 1940, whenever I have read about this, I've always noticed that its my birthday, well 31 years later it was anyway.

The Cathedral took rather an hit and this is pretty much whats left of it.

August in our world



Black Prince

We were very very lucky to see this arrive whilst we were in the station cafe.

Attention to detail, this chap is cleaning the engine, before she goes out again.

Nice and clean now.

The Battlefield Line

Yesterday we went out to The Battlefield Line railway day. The weather stayed nice for our adventure, as it usually does. The event is on over the bank holiday, yesterday was much nicer than today. Today its rather windy. OH went to the allotment this morning though, and bought back a few strawberrys, very nice they were too. There was only a few and they are gone now.

We found the station cat in the sunshine, which I imagine is where any self respecting pog would be.

We were lucky enough to arrive just in time to see this arriving.  Which pleased me of course.

Just a few cases, just in case!!

We had a play in the garden later. I've just about planted all of the plants that I'd grown from seed. You never can tell how many are going to germinate. These are leeks and sprouts which will be planted in June, which I can hardly beleive is just around the corner.

The cold frame is almost empty of plants now. The is an experiment, I've never grown a tomato in a grow bag standing up in this way. The general idea is it makes for easier watering which is a killer for toms if you don't get it right. Its erratic watering that makes tomatoes split, so this should work, oh and a nice *hot summer wouldn't go amiss either.

This is our back garden veg plot. It really an half cider barrel which we bought on holiday from a cider farm. We had it in the back of the car all week, whilst on holiday. We were never sure if we were over the limit from the fumes.

Anway, its made a little veg plot where we grow various things as you can see.

*The sun came out as I was typing :-0

An adventure to share

Whenever we have a day out at the weekend its always known as "an adventure"

This was a transport event.

We were treated to a flypast, the photo isn't brilliant, but I'm sure you will appreciate you just have to point and snap as its over in a moment, this sort of thing oftern brings a tear to my eye.

Something else I love to see and watch....



Very impressive, well I think so anyway

Wouldn't it be nice to pay these prices now

As part of the transport exhibition, there was an exhibition of travel posters.

Nice, arn't they? 

This fish and chip shop was inside the museum, and was re-created from one found inside someones house, the front room, if I remember correctly.

The reason that it was in a transport exhibition was that fish was a cheap meal, due to the easy transportation costs on the railway.

Thats not the case now, we have chippy chips every Friday and the £4.50 bill for the two of us bears that out!!!



A day at the sea-side.

Hope you enjoyed that, have a good weekend all