Sunset at Stonehaven

 Just me, my camera and a mug of coffee walking down the front at Stonehaven at sunrise.

 

 

Soed Idee Jubileum week thirty seven

 Slightly behind on the stitching for various reasons, mainly travelling and needing good daylight to stitch by. Week thirty seven is now complete and hopefully I will catch up by the end of this week as we will be staying in one place for several days.

Squires is the name of a motorcycle event that we attended on the west coast of Scotland.

Street art of Perth

 I always look out for artworks around towns and cities, Perth did not disappoint me. As street names are often a clue to a former existence I followed this one down an alleyway.

and I was rewarded with the following...

It was a narrow passage down the side of a carpark (free motorcycle parking complete with anchored rings to lock your bike to ) so I had to take several pictures......

On the side of what I think may be an old cinema I found this along with maybe a dozen prints of sections of his mural.

A trip around to the back of a building revealed these.....

A very different style was seen on the side of this building. We are seeing a trend of painting murals on buildings spreading around the country with our usual haunt of Bridlington currently installing their fourth building mural.

I couldn't miss out these characters on the main shopping street.

Perth

 Feeling a little exhausted we moved on to Perth after the festival. This was our first visit and after hunting down the campsite ( driving through a council housing estate to get to it ) we found the bus stop into town.

Our first walk round town was more a get our bearings and find coffee sort of walk, we raided the charity shops although didn't really find anything and relaxed with coffee.

The next day I returned on my own with my camera which is now beginning to show its age and I may have to replace it soon but I've not yet found a small camera that does all that this one does.

First up was a quick scout round the bus stop as it was on Mill Street, following the road I found the evidence that I was looking for.

This mosaic was set neatly into the cobbles on the footpath. Anyone want to buy a mill ? there is a sale board on it but this web page gives some of the history. It seems that the plan to reopen as a tourist destination were scrapped in 2023 but the inside photos are interesting. There is a for sale board on the building but I've been unable so far to find the listing on line, ( I'm being nosy) so I'm not sure is it relates to the whole building or maybe an apartment conversion.

Several bears put in an appearance as I wondered around. Around Bridlington we see puffins, around Nottingham it is Robins and I think Sheffield had elephants at one time.

A quick visit to the museum as unfortunately I didn't have enough time to explore thoroughly so its on my 'go back to' list. I did, however find it interesting and well set out.

I finished the day with a walk down by the river, a quick glance inside the theatre entrance and caught my bus back to the site opposite the old cinema.

Travel day

Monday saw us packing up and heading further north, the roads were quite until we hit the central belt (lots of traffic round Edinburgh as usual)

We had to cross the new Forth road bridge, much to my delight as I love going over a good bridge !

The days destination was Perth, somewhere new to explore once we had decompressed from the Festival. 

Back to BAAfest at Bellingham

 Once again we find ourselves in Northumberland setting up camp ready for a music festival, excellent Thursday night concert by Brook Williams and Aaron Catlow, enjoyed by humans and canines alike.

This dog was so well behaved, spent most of the gig lying down only pricking his ears up when one of the artists whistled and hit a particular pitch.

We had a wonderful weekend, plenty of good music, wandered down to the village for coffee and a tour of the local craft brewery.

I had coffee and scone at Tea on the Train 

Hunted down sheep at the heritage centre

Saw plenty of the real thing.

I worked on my scarf to go with my fisherman's smock

We bought raffle tickets, I won a tote bag last year and kept my fingers crossed for the basket of fruit this year :-) although this was the top prize which interested many people there,

And enjoyed the sunset.

All in, it was a wonderful weekend and we have booked the campsite for next year.

NB

We will pick up the guitar in a few weeks time !! Yep Ian had the winning ticket.