As the year draws to a close I thought I'd find a photo from each month this year to remember things we'd done and places we'd visited. It was hard to choose which ones to use as there were so many. I thought we'd had a quiet year this year with no long holidays and just two short breaks. We seem to have pottered about quite a bit locally and within a day's reach.
January - Snow and a foxy visitor to the garden.
February - Snowdrops at Rode Hall, Cheshire.
March - Kingfishers nest building at the Wolseley Centre, Rugeley, Staffordshire
April - Rhuddlan Castle, Denbighshire, Wales
May - Riding the trams at the Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire.
June - Creswell Crags, Creswell, Derbyshire.
July - Boscobel House, nr Brewood, Staffordshire.
August - Sunflowers at Barlow, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
September - Scallop Shell, Aldburgh, Suffolk
October - Fly Agaric toadstools at Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent
November - Trent and Mersey Canal at Westport, Stoke-on-Trent
December - Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.
Unusual visitors to our garden this year have included -
A pair of Mallards
A Great Spotted Woodpecker
and a Red Legged Partridge.
We only managed a couple of short breaks away this year as we had quite a bit of work done in the house through July and August. In April we spent a few days in Rhuddlan in Wales and visited the castle there as well as visiting nearby St Asaph cathedral, Denbigh castle and the RSPB reserve near Conwy. In September we went a bit further afield into Suffolk and visited Sutton Hoo, Woodbridge and Aldeburgh.
All for now. Take care.
