Bank Holiday Monday called for a spin out. Miss L came too....which was nice. Today's carefully selected Bank Holiday day out was Stoke on Trent. Stoke! Yup Stoke. The traffic was light. We found our way to the car park outside the Potteries Museum. Five quid to park for the day....gasp. However it was free to go into the museum. The reason for the visit was two fold:
A. To see some of the Staffordshire hoard
B. To see an exhibition of the work of Emma Bridgewater
There were fifty pieces of the hoard. Although they were not cleaned up they were quite amazing. Bridgewater is a ceramic designer that has worked in Stoke for the past 25 years. We had a look round the other exhibits as well. They just happened to have a restoration project of a MK16 Spitfire. Even in its incomplete state it looked fantastic. R J Mitchell, the designer of the Spitfire, was born and educated in and about Stoke. We even had some Staffordshire oatcakes for dinner. Oatcakes are a local delicacy. On the way back home and completely by accident was passed the Emma Bridgewater Pottery. I did a u-turn and went in for a look round. H and Miss L were in heaven. I just liked the building. Apparently Stoke still produces more pottery than any other city in the world. I wonder were they make it?
The day was fairly warm and quite muggy by the time we got home. I went up to the bees to check them over. All seems well so long as this week goes well. The big deal was that I managed to keep the smoker going all the time I was there.
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