A Brand New Pair…. or two
While touring around Newcastle last Friday we saw a most unusual sight. Just inside the doorway of a pizza shop stood a life sized model of a horse. His head […]
Tag Archives: County Durham
The marvellous sport of fencing
800 years ago, fencing was a way of settling your differences. Now, fencing is an Olympic sport. Additionally there are hundreds of fencing clubs in the USA and well over […]
Newcastle Upon Tyne – Part 2
Before we reached the castle our friend took us by a fantastic private library. “The Literary & Philosophical Society (Lit & Phil) is the largest independent library outside London, housing […]
Birds of a Feather
The Durham University Botanic Gardens is one of the hidden treasures around here. (Incidentally, students are admitted free.) The Gardens sits near the Howlands Colleges and south of the Palatine […]
Old King Coal
This weekend our favourite local museum opens a new feature . Beamish Museum opens its new pit pony stable in the village colliery. We are looking forward to a trip there […]
Field Trip Friday # 17
Friday was a cold but sunny lovely day. Mr. Ray suggested that we drive up to a village called Blanchland. The Abbey and surrounding village of Blanchland was founded by […]
Scenes from a Saturday morning walk
This morning began with a 2 mile walk. Here are some scenes from along the way. As Meg said #WhereWeLive. I think you can see some of the reasons why […]
Imperfect Perfection
After our volunteer work at the Lego table this week we had a special tour from a friend who knows a lot about the Cathedral. We had heard interesting […]
An incredibly Small World
We have this bit of a story from back when we first met Mr. Ray. You can read about our first meeting here https://thehaynesblog.com/2013/09/24/by-shanks-pony/ Read the above post and then […]
Tonight
Many of our friends in the US took a leap forward in time this morning. We here in the UK won’t make that jump springing forward for another three weeks. […]
The Milk Man – (Things I thought were extinct)
Meg was invited to a pizza and movie night at a friend’s house last night. I was sharing conversation and a cuppa tea with the Mom in their kitchen. She […]
Weekend Happenings
This past weekend was non stop as we had some errands to run and places the kids need to be. Our first stop was to Rusty’s Barbershop to see our […]
Shrove Tuesday – Fat Tuesday
Today in our home county in the US there are many people celebrating Mardi Gras Day or Fat Tuesday. Here in the UK it is called Shove Tuesday or Pancake […]
All the Pretty Little Horses
Those of you that have known me for any length of time know that I love horses. I began riding at age 10 because I was driving my parents crazy […]
Field Trip Friday #14 Part Two
After our visit to Hylton Castle we made a stop on our way home at Penshaw Monument. Mr. Ray suggested that the bairns (kids) might enjoy climbing to the top. He […]
Moving from the US to Durham, England
This post will begin a blog series on the ins and outs of making a move to Durham from the US. We read several blogs before making our move and […]
Field Trip Friday err Tuesday # 13
Today we decided to take our weekly field trip a bit early in the week. There was something on we wanted to see. Mr. Ray offered to drive us up […]
Rejoice!
Another glorious winter day here in North East England. I can not believe that it is February. There was a cold breeze blowing this morning but for most of the […]
It is wonderfully R.A.D.
It has been a very busy Saturday for us. Joshua has fencing lessons on Saturday a.m. and for a few Saturdays Meg also has extra rehearsal for her ballet exams. […]
Beef – It’s not what’s for dinner
One thing that is a bit more expensive at the grocery shops here is beef. That is probably just as well because I’ve grown accustomed to eating too much red […]
All Things Wise and Wonderful
One of the many things we enjoy about living in a new land is the chance to explore new (to us) native wildlife. I have always been fascinated by the […]
Blessed are the……..
Just returned home from another sunny Sunday morning of worship and fellowship at Carrville Methodist. It is always sunny inside this house of worship even if the sun isn’t shining […]
Field Trip Saturday (and a day out)
This week’s field trip was moved to Saturday. This allowed us to get some more work done at school and allowed Rob go with us as well. Mr. Ray picked […]
What’s for supper?
I am loving the little cooker in our kitchen. It turns out wonderful, very economical meals with little effort on my part. Last night our entire supper cooked together in […]
Our trip back in time (Part 2)
We continued on our tour of Beamish Museum and found our selves in a school house in the year 1913. I think that this horse in the primary kid’s classroom […]
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