Snowday

This weekend we travelled over to Glossop in Derbyshire on the edge of the Peak District to see a band who regularly play in Nottingham. We decided to make it a weekend away and booked a room in a new Travel lodge ( budget hotel chain) that had been opened just six months ago in a converted mill in the centre of Glossop.

Very friendly customer service and a great budget price for our one night. Getting to Glossop from where we live means either taking the boring main roads or heading off into the dales and over the higher roads that are often closed by snow although on Saturday they were open with just a little snow left from earlier in the week.

Once there we shopped, had a lovely Chinese meal then headed off to see the band. John, a very talented banjo/accordion/whistle/mandolin etc player, came over to sit with us before their set and handed me his new  banjo. I was amazed at how heavy it was !!! Now I don't know anything about banjos but used to play guitar so I had a quick strum and still fancy learning to play one.

The band were good, tight , probably one of the best gigs we've been to and we have known them for over 20 years!!

I sat to the side with my little camera for most of the night a grabbed a couple of shots

 

then a few more.

 

 

 

 

The band are called Seven Little Sisters and you can here tracks from their new CD here. The next morning we awoke to rain which rapidly became snow giving a beautiful drive back, even got to stop at our favourite book shop !

Hope you all had as good a weekend as we did ! xx

Riverside Festival Day One

We have an annual Riverside Festival in Nottingham down by the River Trent, a mixture of music, fairground and street performers. We went down to the first evening of entertainment to see our favourite local band, Seven Little Sisters play.

As we crossed the bridge we noticed that the boats were gathering reading for the boat parade on Saturday night.

 The band had one of the best sound mixs that we have heard from them in a long time.

The stalls stayed open into the night

and the rides looked amazing all lit up.

The Festival continues all weekend and we will be having a picnic there later.

( with the wheels of course)

Music and Fluff

Hi, seems ages since I blogged here, so sorry but I've been a little busy recently as the next few posts will show.

In the meantime, here's a couple of photos from two weeks ago when we found ourselves in a pub not far from Knit Nottingham enjoying music from a band that we first met in Scotland many years ago.

Seven Little Sisters have reformed recently and  are very busy but still found time to play in a local pub even though they had played a festival and a late gig the previous two days.

As usual, we were there with knitting and spindles and these days the band would be disppointed if we didn't spin whilst enjoying their music!!



This is the Blueface Leicester that was dyed with landscape dyes ( see previous post) and spun by Wikkidknitter.



We enjoy a drink but please note that the whisky container is used for transporting spindle and fibre!!



The beer was very appropriate!



and the band played on.