Out and About

David and I have been enjoying the sunny weather with some day trips out.  Two weeks ago we visited Tyntesfield NT house and gardens and last week we had a  day trip to Guernsey with a couple of visits to our local haunt Kingston Lacy.

Tyntesfield is just south of Bristol but because there are roadworks around Blandford and trying to avoid that coming back home we ended taking a lot longer with our journeying than it should have done.  But the gardens were gorgeous and the house delightful so it was worth the trip.

 These were the tiles inside the summer house (in the pic above)

 This was the front of the house but you had to walk through to the back (below)

I could not resist taking a photo of the ironwork on the door

The wooden panelled ceiling with the lovely metal chandelier in the dining room.

This was one of many wooden carved panels in one of the rooms and in this one there were flowers.

Last week we went on a day trip to Guernsey from Poole on the Condor ferry  While people were sweltering on the mainland the island was that bit cooler.  We went with my brother-in-law and his wife and met up with relations for a leisurely lunch (there's just enough time for lunch and a meander in St Peter Port) and it was nice to have a catch up.

Local sights look so different from the water.  Coming out of Poole Harbour we passed Brownsea Island

 Looking back to Brownsea with Poole Harbour in the distance, the ferry is just picking up speed

 View of Old Harry Rocks and Ballard Down in the Purbecks

 Coming in to Guernsey there was a cruise ship berthed just outside St Peter Port, the small tender vessel can just be seen in the photo.  The ship was Crown Princess and its next stop was to be Cork in Ireland.

 A view of the Main Street in St Peter Port

 The old market building, which is now a sports shop

 The ferry to go back to Poole is reversing into post with the lifeboat in the foreground

 A view of Castle Cornet as we just left the port

It was a really lovely day out.

My next outing (on my own this time)was on Saturday morning to Merley House, near Wimborne for the Quarterback Quilters' biennial exhibition.  This is a large group who do challenges and workshops so by the time the second year comes around there is quite a lot of work to show.  Here are a few pics.

 These circles panels were from a workshop, love the variety of colours.  Below is from a seahorse/kingfisher foundation piecing workshop

 A display of the quilts in one of the rooms in the house.  Its a lovely light venue,

Some more lovely quilts to see

 Samples from another workshop

 I like the display of 6" squares at the ends of the quilt stands

 some small elephant hangings

Now that exhibition is over there is the Festival of Quilts to look forward to the end of this week and into the weekend.