Tag: Northumberland
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Glamping in Huts in the Hills & Amazing Star Gazing in Northumberland
Friday night and the sun is setting as we head North to find our accommodation for the night. Catherine had spotted a new venue offering nights in a Shepherd’s Hut four weeks earlier and they looked quirky and fun. All I knew was that the Largest Shepherd’s Hut (The Cheviot) had a main bed-room and a…
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Enchanted Belsay – English Heritage
Belsay Hall is an English Heritage Property not too far away from us in Ponteland. Like most English Heritage properties the Hall is a shell of a building and often used as a gallery to house art installations. The last time we went to the property was in 2009 when Stella McCartney had her glass…
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Sunday Lunch at the Astley Arms, Seaton Sluice
We have started on a mission now. Finding the North East’s Best Sunday Lunch. Who would have thought there was so much variety in the same set up of ingredients. Meat, Vegetables, Yorkshire Pudding, and gravy. Today we went back to a Carvery Lunch we used to go to a few years ago to see…
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Treasure Island Morpeth – Easy Children’s Party
Abigail wanted her 5th Birthday Party at Treasure Island Morpeth. As she’s just started school, this is the stage of party planning that can busy. If you’ve got children at school, no doubt you’ll remember that year of no spare weekends. Parties in the morning and the afternoon. Generally, the kids want to invite everyone from the…
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In the footsteps of Hadrian… preparing for the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge
Way back in October, Alan messaged me to say his friend David Wilson was organising a weekend overnight trip to the Yorkshire Dales in April and if I fancied it? Never one to miss an opportunity to drink wine away from the children (sorry Imogen and Abigail!) and head out into the great outdoors… away…