And we’re also at Papplewick & Linby Village Hall NG15 8FB on Sunday 28th April 2024 as part of Artists Makers & Fine Foods Market. 10am to 2pm.
Month: April 2024
West Bridgford Farmers’ Market – Saturday 27th April 2024
We’re also at West Bridgford Farmers’ Market on Saturday 27th April 2024. 8.30am to 1.30pm.
It takes place on The Croquet Lawn, Central Avenue, West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2 6AT
We’ll have art, photography, prints, frames, greeting cards and notebooks celebrating nature, wildlife, landscape and seascape.
Brackfest 2024- Brackenhurst Campus – Nottingham Trent University NG25 0QF – Tuesday 26th April 2024
We’re back for the last event of the academic year at Brackenhurst Campus – Nottingham Trent University, near Southwell NG25 0QF for Brackfest, on Friday 26th April 2024 from midday to 6pm.
We’ll have cards, art, prints and notebooks from Jane Cornwell Studio and Ali Chappell-Bates as well as our own greeting cards and prints!
Creswell Crags to Worksop – April 2024
This was a lovely walk from Creswell Crags (which I’m very fond of) to the centre of Worksop, going through the Welbeck Estate. It’s a mixture of forest, farmland and some beautiful wild sections.
Creswell Crags is easily accessible from the M1 Motorway at Junction 30 – follow the signs for ‘Creswell Crags’ and you can’t go wrong. Creswell Railway station if you fancy the train or the no. 77 bus between Chesterfield and Worksop.
Try the Traveline website for further information about bus and train options.
I got there fairly early as the forecast was very favourable. We’ve had utterly miserable weather with rain, strong winds and even thunder and lightning the past couple of weeks. Those slate grey skies are not a delight!
At 6am the sun is just coming up and it’s a treat to see the sun move so quickly into the heavens…
Then it’s out of the Crags and heading east.
Then it’s over the A60 (take care as it can be busy!) and you’re on the Robin Hood Way. It’s quite a confusing and winding route with many offshoots, so take a look here for ideas to walk it.
Still heading east with the main estate house to the south:
It’s a wonderfully peaceful section with no-one about. remember that there’s a lot of restrictions where you can walk and the Welbeck Estate owners provide lots of helpful red signs to keep you where they want you to be.
Then it’s out into farmland with wonderful ‘big skies’:
And then into a section of managed forest… with one last look back at the skies:
The lake is beautiful and full of birds, geese especially making their prescence known.
The lake area also gives views of the sky. I’m a big fan of clouds and I thought the fomrations were beautiful!
The video below probably does it more justice?
And then onwards easterly…
I think this might be an old gatehouse with the cottage next to it for the gatekeeper? Apologies for my shadow but you can’t do much about that with a low sun in the sky.
A nice bit of forest but apart from the bluebells, there’s not a lot of nature here – it’s all pine trees for logging, I think? Very sterile and quiet – no bird song at all.
It’s quite a relief to be in open country again. There were skylarks everywhere singing and flying about. Othere birds too but they much to quick for me to take pictures. I enjoyed the riot of different birdson though.
This was another area with ‘big skies’ and I loved all the difefrent sorts of cluds forming from the west:
The last section wasn’t so nice. You have to cross the busy A57 road southwest of Worsop. Fortunately it’s not a dual carriageway and there were gaps in traffic. Then you run for it!
I’m not so keen on these huge lorries, to be honest?
Once over the road, you’re into urban Worksop. There the beautiful countryside and vistas end and it’s housing and finally the town centre. I caught the no. 77 from Worksop bus station to Creswell and then walked back to Creswell Crags.
Try the Traveline website for further information about bus and train options.
But not before ruining all my healthy walking with a large fried breakfast with black pudding and lots of coffee:
Patching’s AMFF Market – Sunday 21st April 2024
We’re at Patching’s Artists, Makers and Fine Foods (AMFF) Market on Sunday 21st April 2024. 10am to 3pm. Oxton Rd, Calverton, Nottingham NG14 6NU
We’ll have out usual mixture of greeting cards, art, photography and prints!
The Garage, Chilwell Nottingham – Sunday 7th April 2024
We’re back at The Garage Chilwell on Sunday 7th April 2024 with unique art, prints, greeting cards and notebooks inspired by the natural world.
The market runs from 10am to 2pm. Get there by tram, bus or by car!
Lots of greeting cards from Jane Cornwell:
Also art, prints, greeting cards and notebooks from Ali Chappell-Bates:
A Brief Walk Around Creswell Crags – Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire Border – October 2023
This was a very short walk at around three miles. I haven’t had time to do much this year, what with one thing and another.
Creswell Crags is a site of special scientific interest. People (in one shape or another) have been visiting for 50,000 years, starting with Neanderthals in the last Ice Age. You can find a lot more about the area here, particularly about the cave art created by its residents.
You can get to Creswell Crags by train to Creswell (Robin Hood Line) and a twenty minute walk or by car: it’s very well sign-posted from Junction 30 of the M1.
It’s also a lovely place to go and wander around and I was lucky that it was an unseasonably warm and sunny day. I haven’t done the place any justice and I’ll have to go back some time to take some proper photos.
Then a view detour to admire the skies near the Crags…