In general this website is about polymer clay, but sometimes there’s nothing wrong with a little bit of personal interest. This is going to be one of those articles. 🙂 I just returned from a month-long trip to the UK. My husband, Gary, is English, and has only lived in the US for 7 years so we regularly take trips back home. The focus for this trip was to see Gary’s sister get married. We also have a grandchild in the UK, so we do try to soak up as much of him as we can. This trip also included some time visiting polymer clay guilds and groups and also some sightseeing and hiking in between family obligations.
When my readers found that I was visiting the UK, I had a lot of requests to keep people updated with lots of pictures. I did try to post to Instagram regularly, but since I didn’t have a data or cell phone connection while there, my posting time was limited. Luckily, Gary is quite an excellent photographer, so I have a lot of nice photos to share with you here.
Sightseeing
Wales
The Steampunk Wedding
Our Grandson!!
More Sightseeing
Hiking
Back Home
We came home to hot and humid US weather, a broken hot water heater, a broken coffeemaker, and four very happy and grateful cats. The “dull roar” of life continues, it seems. But no worries, polymer clay is never far from my mind. Next up is an artist interview with the canemaker Ivy Niles. I was thrilled to learn more about her, and I know that you will be too. Stay tuned!
8 thoughts on “Visiting the UK”
I’m finally getting around to looking at your gorgeous photos (my email has been backlogged for months and I just now got to the newsletter that you sent out about these)… Thanks so much for sharing! A trip to the UK is on my bucket list, so it was nice to see its loveliness through your lens! I’m glad you had such a wonderful trip!
Thank you Beth. It was a wonderful trip and I look forward to going back again. Do make sure you get to that bucket list. It’s a lovely country.
Thanks so much for sharing the pictures of your trip. Have been to England but didn’t;t get to Yorkshire.
The UK has so much variation in geography and even things like architecture and speech patterns. It’s really very different even a hundred miles away. I hope you get a chance to go back and see Yorkshire. It’s really very beautiful.
Having lived in England for much of my twenties (decades ago!), the photos made me homesick. And the talk of the Guilds made me wonder if we have anything similar here in the States. If I had the wherewithal, I’d open a dedicated clay shop and run it similarly to knitting shops where there are not only classes, but people come to just sit and work and share.
We do have many, many guilds here in the US. They’re not organized into a cohesive group, however. Of course the US is so vast that even having 3-4 guilds in a state can easily mean it’s too far to drive. We have that issue here in the Ozarks. Many want to join, but it’s a long drive. I like your idea about a clay shop. Can you imagine how fun that would be!
I loved the pictures! Thank you for sharing with me.
My pleasure!