Archive for the ‘Homes Parks and Gardens’ Category
October 30th, 2009
We have booked a couple of tickets to pop along to the Hallowscream event at York Maze on Saturday evening which as you will know is the traditional date for Halloween in this country. Our ‘barber’ (Alex) had told me about it because he knows one of the people involved in organising it and from [...]
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September 7th, 2009
Update: If you have just under £2m quid, you can buy Mother Shiptons Cave which went on the market today. With 65000 visitors a year, it could be a nice little hobby for someone.
Original Post: We turned up around noon with the family and gained entry having paid £5.75 per adult (family tickets available) to [...]
August 31st, 2009
We took a very short drive from home yesterday to visit York Maize Maze in Elvington near York. We’d heard this place mentioned many times and had even seen it in the news over the last few months for the many special events it holds. The most notorious being the Nudist Night, where people with [...]
May 25th, 2009
On Saturday, we went along to Chelsea Flower Show in London with our friends Steve and Russell. We arrived at around 10am having walked from the Crowne Plaza hotel on Buckingham Gate where we were all staying for the weekend. Entering through the gates, the memories of my last visit came flooding back. With the [...]
May 17th, 2009
Continuing the current trend where we visit stately homes on a Sunday, we travelled half an hour away from our home to Sledmere House near Driffield in East Yorkshire. Home to Sir Tatton Sykes, this is still a family home, that happens to be open to the public for six months of the year. Sam [...]
May 10th, 2009
On our way back from Beningbrough Hall (read the review) we decided to stop by Sutton Park, which we had last visited during Easter 2008. It was covered in snow last time (see the pictures), so this time, we looked forward to walking around the grounds in relative warmth. Having paid our £3.50 each to [...]
May 10th, 2009
We decided to take a trip to a second local National Trust property now that we are fully fledged members. This time it was Beningbrough Hall near York and within thirty minutes of leaving home we were there. Pulling into the car park we noticed quite a few people having picnics and given we are [...]
May 5th, 2009
Bank Holiday Monday promised clouds and rain according to the BBC forecast for York. Not to be put off by what is now typical weather for British Bank Holiday we hit the road heading north. With Durham City set as the destination we found ourselves leaving the A1 at the junction for Ripon and followed [...]
December 30th, 2008
Since moving to York early in 2007 we have become regular customers of Dean’s Garden Centre on Stockton Lane in Stockton-on-the-Forest near York. It is a family run business with a second branch in Scarborough and is celebrating it’s 40th anniversary this year. We have bought quite a few things from here over the couple [...]
December 14th, 2008
We fancied a real Christmas tree this year, so following recommendations from our neighbours, we made our way to Boretree Christmas Trees on Hull Road, in York. Just up the road from us near Grimston House, this small family business has been around for many years. So with a little excitement in our hearts and [...]