Misc. – Page 5 – Graeme Skinner

Maker of Middle-Earth

3 October 2018 Graeme Skinner

We had the opportunity to visit the Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth exhibition at the Bodleian, Oxford earlier this month as we were visiting the area (okay, we visited Oxfordshire because the exhibition was on ;-)). I had read various reviews online both from friends and in the media and was rather keen to see it for myself. The exhibition didn’t disappoint, seeing the original maps that J.R.R.T. and his son worked on was something I never thought I’d see, and his original illustrations were simply amazing. I must admit to…

Weeping Window

20 June 2018 Graeme Skinner

The Weeping Window has been on display at Carlisle Castle for a month now and we have been meaning to get up to see it but something has got in the way every time we planned on going. So yesterday we managed to get up to see it, the weather wasn’t brilliant but it was still nice to see it and wander around the castle walls under the poppies.

Cymysgedd

28 May 2018 Graeme Skinner

We had a week away to recharge batteries and relax for a bit, during our week away we managed a few trips to see new sights and wander for a while in the woods. In the end we visited Staward Gorge which we had driven past numerous times but never stopped at, we walked around for a while in the First of Ae which Hugo really enjoyed 😉 We drove down the top of the Cumbrian Coast wandering down to see the monument to Edward I (Longshanks) who died at…

Well then…

14 April 2017 Graeme Skinner

A few days ago I noticed my website was no longer online, at first I thought they were doing work on the server or they had issues of some sort. Then I noticed that it was only my website which was missing, or more precisely the directory where my website usually resided was no longer there. After a mild session of cursing and some rather colourful language I did some digging. Not only was the directory missing but all the logs which I’d normally trawl through to see who had…

With a nod to Mr Morris…

15 August 2015 Graeme Skinner

…and a few others 😉 For a while I’ve been looking for a reading chair, somewhere to sit away from distractions, where I can pull a good book from the shelf and sit back and just read. We searched all the usual places, and we searched a few unusual places. Then we hit the internet and searched there for suitable chairs, we didn’t find anything modern that fit the bill. Then we struck on the idea of a William Morris inspired chair, we refined our search and found nothing really…