Places out and about are beginning to look quite festive. Wednesday morning after I'd had my hair cut we popped up to Middleport Pottery for a coffee and scone and a little wander around.
There was a cool breeze but it was dry and sunny after Tuesday's wind and rain.
Inside the factory and shop was looking very pretty. I love the Christmas Wreath above.
Dressed tables, white and green seemed to be a theme.
Trees with tempting parcels underneath.
Black and white wares on a black table cloth looked stunning.
Then it was up the canal to Westport Lake where a heron caught my eye.
It had it's beady eye on something in the shallows. The sun kept shining for our walk around the lake. We'd put all the Christmas cards in a bag in the car so popped into Burslem where we knew there was a post office.
The new bronze cast statue of 'Lemmy' (real name Ian Frazer Kilmister) who was born in the town in 1945, stands near the town hall. A member of the band Hawkwind and later front man of the rock band Motorhead The work is by local sculptor Andy Edwards who is responsible for many notable sculptures including the one of The Beatles in front of the Liver building in Liverpool.
Last but not least we popped into the T G Green factory shop close by.
Such a colourful shop. Year ago we liked to visit their factory shop in Church Gresley in South Derbyshire. Usually when I was there researching family history. My father's family came from the area around Swadlincote and Midway. My 5x great grandfather apparently settled there c. 1780 when he brought a gang of men, all from the Forest of Dean, to dig out test bell pits for the Gresley Family of Gresley Hall.
We treated ourselves to a couple of Cornish ware mugs, neither the blue or the red but the green stripey ones.
Well, I think that is all for now.
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