Grand Days Out

 We never have long holidays because we have two old timers at home.  Two ancient pussycats that don't like being left at home now for very long.  Mum comes in a morning and evening to cuddle and to feed but they still miss us when we are away.  So we have weekends and overnights.  This summer has been particularly good and we have seen some wonderful things.

One of our trips was two days down to Oxfordshire, particularly to see Art in Action at Waterperry Gardens in Wheatly near Oxford.  On the way down we called at Hidcote Gardens,

a beautiful National Trust Garden with several very nice tea rooms and truly lovely garden rooms and walks.  However our main reason for travelling down to Oxfordshire was to attend Art in Action.

It happens in the middle of July, this year 18th to the 21st of the month.  If you are in any way interested in art or crafts and want to see some of the best work around in many genres, including sculpture, painting, wildlife art, ceramics, textiles ,glass work and many others, then you should make the effort to go on down.  It was

absolutely wonderful , we all had a really good day.  The work on show was truly remarkable and showcased what great talent is around.  From a visitors point of view there was plenty of loos, lots of places to have a drink - a cup of tea something stronger. So much to see that you could have made it several days and this year, amazing weather.  We all said when we came to the end of the day that we felt like we had been baked in an oven the weather was so sunny.  A truly grand day out.