A visit to the big city

Regular followers will smile when I say that I made it to my check up with the practice nurse today, just one week after I tried to attend on the wrong day! All tests were OK; bloods awaited.

Then to Bellingham to hang another 3 pictures in the Local Faces exhibition. The people of the town have been popping in to see themselves and attendance at the museum is good.

Home to plant out a few bedding plants, eat lunch, greet the new cleaner, send passport application by Special Delivery from PO van and catch train to Newcastle. Phew!

First I visited both RC and Anglican Cathedrals with my tourist hat on. Here are the two angels at the feet of Bishop Lloyd in the Anglican catherdral. It is said: "Those little figures hold down his feet lest he spring up and deliver yet one more sermon!" He is lying very close to the high altar in his splendid memorial.

Then to the Side Gallery to see Legacy: Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and the Caucasus. This was a sobering experience and so different from the parts of Romania I visted so recently.

Finally to a talk at the Mining Institute, where Chris Harrison showed his work from his home town of Jarrow and "Copper Horses" all about his relationship with his father seen through the parts of the horizontal screw operated by his father in a factory. This sort of narrative work is very different from the world of the Photo Clubs. I met someone I last saw at school.......

What a lovely day.