Planet Ruby Starrs

So this commitment to reopening the blog isn't going so well... after a crazy busy summer with various adventures - autumn is upon us and suddenly life has ground to a quiet standstill.... its mainly about tidying the garden and readying the house for the colder days coming.   Not a lot interesting happening to ramble on about! more than 180 but less than 360 pic of Ruin and view We did have a little outing on Sunday to Hackfall Gardens at Grewelthorpe, North Yorkshire, to look at a Landmark Trust building open day.  This building is called 'The Ruin' and that exactly what it is- but in the form of an intended ruin - a folly on the estate of John Aislabie - a small  rather beautiful space planned as a 'banqueting hall' to showcase riches and more importantly the amazing view. It has one small living room with to smaller side rooms one being a compact bedroom with log burner and the other a very swish bathroom area. All three room only open onto the stone terrace - t

We are having a few days away up in bonny Scotland staying with friend in Edinburgh.  Our friend  has a very fab gaff top floor high up with tremendous views both across the city and the hills.   We had G&T's in the roof garden and then a lovely evening drinking wine, watching a beautiful sunset and catching up on events over the last covid years...   After investigating all climbing opportunities up the side of our friends building as one does... we went to have a mosey around the Scottish National Portrait Gallery which is a beautiful gallery and houses some really good art.  We have been before, but the exhibits change, but mostly its the stunning building  that is the most striking. After lunch in the gallery we did an afternoon matinee of the film 'Fall' - interesting tense but totally slated by the 3 expert climbers I was watching with as technically it was ALL WRONG and TOTALLY UNFEASIBLE ..  yes all those things - irresponsible, unlikely etc -  however it wasn&#

Solfest - fabulous return to music festivals... superb tunes, fantastic weather and lots of dancing under the stars.  And... Dr Fred in his space suit for fancy dress shenanigans...

Camping with the best girls at Creekside Campsite in Anderby on the East coast.  A fab week - sea, more sea a lot of sand, Aquarium, dinosaurs, beautiful sunsets, fields to play in, friends to make - tiring for little legs and sometimes not quite what a nearly teenager needs but we all had a very enjoyable break in glorious weather - couldn't ask for more - Little legs sobbed her heart out when we had to come home😞😞😞   

Grayson Perry Exhibition at Sunderland

we are about to go on a big trip... not until the new year but I am trying to be ornanised and see if my wee notebook i used last year will support what ineed to blog while charging up and down the west coast of Australia - so thisis the beginning of a series of tests.... if ou are still on board please let me know either in the comments of by email. so here we go- testing testing 1 2 3 photos next xx