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Daffodils and lambs
Apr. 8th, 2018 04:00 pmWhat more could you ask?
Ushaw College has been hosting a craft and food fair this weekend, and we went along, more for the excursion than from any great hope of shopping excitements. Which was about right.
Since our last visit the college has opened a new exhibition space, and we spent some time over the current exhibition, which marks the 450th annhiversary of the college's foundation (not in its present form, but as the English college at Douai). I was intrigued by the claim, next to an impressive volume of music, that the carol Adeste Fideles is full of coded Jacobite references but the full story is rather less dramatic).
Our expectations of the fair were pretty accurate: I bought some cheese, and some pickles, and then we returned to the car the long way round, through the gardens. The college grounds are full of daffodils, smaller than the standard varieties and rather windswept, but very bright and cheering. In my mind they are pools of sunshine in the shadows of the woodland, but my photos show the odd flower here and there among well-spaced trees. Down by the lakeside, someone has been having fun carving fallen trees into animals:
There's also a badger, a dragon and an otter.
We took the scenic route to Broom House Farm, where they have many lambs (also hens and geese and a very large turkey) and lunched on eggs benedict and extremely strong coffee - they call in 'red-eye' and they aren't exaggerating.
Ushaw College has been hosting a craft and food fair this weekend, and we went along, more for the excursion than from any great hope of shopping excitements. Which was about right.
Since our last visit the college has opened a new exhibition space, and we spent some time over the current exhibition, which marks the 450th annhiversary of the college's foundation (not in its present form, but as the English college at Douai). I was intrigued by the claim, next to an impressive volume of music, that the carol Adeste Fideles is full of coded Jacobite references but the full story is rather less dramatic).
Our expectations of the fair were pretty accurate: I bought some cheese, and some pickles, and then we returned to the car the long way round, through the gardens. The college grounds are full of daffodils, smaller than the standard varieties and rather windswept, but very bright and cheering. In my mind they are pools of sunshine in the shadows of the woodland, but my photos show the odd flower here and there among well-spaced trees. Down by the lakeside, someone has been having fun carving fallen trees into animals:
There's also a badger, a dragon and an otter.
We took the scenic route to Broom House Farm, where they have many lambs (also hens and geese and a very large turkey) and lunched on eggs benedict and extremely strong coffee - they call in 'red-eye' and they aren't exaggerating.
