Night Light in Nottingham 2015

Each year, for one night, Nottingham is transformed into a colourful and beautiful light filled city. We have been to light night for the last three years and it never fails to impress.

The view from the castle...

The trees in the castle grounds, they looked so pretty all lit up in different colours...

The band stand, lit up and playing music, we had a little boogie...

Gorgeous trees all lit up...

The castle looked so pretty at night, we haven't been up to the castle in a long time, in fact I am not sure we have ever taken the children, so it was a nice trip.

We all had a fabulous time, got to watch some of my sons friends read stories and then visited the wonderful Brewhouse Yard which I will save for another day.

Out and About in the City and the Mill Lakes

This weekend has seen us out and about in both the city and the park, with our first stop being Nottingham Light Night. An annual event which sees areas of Nottingham filled with light and sound, my sons class had done an installation so we went to see this and saw some light sabre fighting too.

My sons schools installation (it was too dark to find my sons jam jar lantern)...

The famous Mr Hood…

Light sabre action...

And finally our slightly gloomy Sunday walk, first stop looking at the pretty lichen…

Don't think we were going to see any water voles or crayfish today...

The mill lakes are massive and even though I have lived here all my life I didn't realise they were used as the water mills for cotton mills.

Walking to look at the ducks, biscuit in hand...

All wrapped up looking out over the massive lakes...

Puddle walking...

Looking at this tree with a massive 9 trunks coming off it...

Linking up to Country Kids on Coombe Mill