The bank holiday weekend saw the Moira Canal Festival 2017, which helps to raise funds for the Ashby Canal. The festival has developed a reputation for having a remarkable series of activities and displays. Each year has seen a historical reenactment and this year’s group was the Coldstream Guards from the Napoleonic Wars. Not only…
The previously mentioned universal truth that young children are invariably fans of dinosaurs continues to hold in my house, so we headed off this weekend to see Dinosaur World 2017 in Derby. The theatre was full of families, with plenty of small children, as Miranda, who was to be our tour guide through Dinosaur World,…
This weekend saw the Moira Canal Festival 2016, the annual local fundraiser for the Ashby Canal that has a fantastically varied series of events. I’ve written about the 2013, 2014 and 2015 events, and as with those and other previous years, I went along to see what was going on. The trip to Moira is…
It normally is not that unusual to have the first hints of the arrival of spring by mid February in the UK, but the apparently constant storms and rains that have marked the first couple of months of 2014 have meant that this has been a more unusual and noteworthy event. I took Berta for…
I mentioned the Moira Canal Festival in my last post, specifically the Morris Dancing that was going on, and how enjoyable that is, and I made reference to the large number of events that were going on in the festival. It is an annual event at Moira Furnace, on the border between Derbyshire and North…
I wrote recently about the wonderful Castlerigg Stone Circle as managed by English Heritage, which is one of the UK’s prettiest ancient monuments, and is in the form that most people assume with a stone circle, with the stones standing in a circle. There are other sites where the stones are in a different arrangement,…