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The Auckland Project

Being retired seem to be a full time occupation - I have no idea how I had time to have a job - of course there are some disadvantages - loss of income but compensated by late mornings and no rush hour traffic.  I am however, prone to losing sense of time and routine so I have to have a few bits in my week that remind me to get up at a sensible hour - and believe me whats sensible to me is very late to most people - and to keep track of what day is what. One my forays in to time management is a stint volunteering at The Auckland Project (TAP) - I started out invigilating in the Spanish Gallery in the market Square of Bishop Auckland but soon decided that for various reason I preferred to chat with visitors about the Castle - also known as the Bishops Palace.   Bishop Auckland was the home of the Prince Bishops - a long convoluted piece of history which warrants further investigation, but essentially in about 1066 the king couldn't quite control the north from the deep sou...

Cramming it in With Visitors....

We have just had a really lovely week with visiting friends from down south... the weather mostly held and the southern softies managed to cope with a bracing walk on the beach at Hartlepool.  The next day a visit to the big city of Newcastle - I haven't been actually into the toon since pre covid but even this time, due to unforeseen actions we were running late and only had time for the The Biscuit Factory - very lovely art works, jewellery and other interesting items on display and for sale- and then an educational evening at Cosmology Night held in Ernests Bar in Ouseburn.   It was an interesting evening - Dr Fred gave an excellent well received talk about the James Webb Telescope and Dr Dave gave a fairly - to me at least- in comprehensible talk about science of the Terminator.... to be fair the audience enjoyed it but I wasn't even aware that there was more than one terminator film although I suppose hasta la vista is a bit of a giveaway... anyway most of it went st...