Sunday 20th September - Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Don't worry - this is still my blog - just thought I'd try a different look. You know me - I get bored easily :-D This post has taken a while to get on as life has got in the way a bit this week. Even now, I'm doing this laid on my bed whilst Zoe decides whether or not she's going to go to sleep or eat her sleeping bag!

On Sunday, as it was such a glorious day, we packed ourselves off again and went to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at Bretton Hall. http://www.ysp.co.uk/view.aspx?id=3 I think it is one of my favourite places to go - up there with Newby Hall and Edinburgh Botanical Gardens.

Ben sitting on a very expensive (I would have thought!) Henry Moore sculpture.

Ben really got a lot out of it this time - he was looking at the sculptures, talking about them, asking questions and generally having a great time. In the past when we've been, its really just been a big open space for him to run around in.

There were a series of sculptures of 'lady hares' which I found most bizarre. They reminded me of the dream sequences in Watership Down - 30 years on and I'm still traumatised by that film!

We had great fun in this field - I don't know if you can tell, but they're giant cylinders of asphalt with a metal tube through the middle - there were about six of them scattered through the field and we had a great time running round them, shouting through the tube and shoving bits of stick through the tube. Probably not what the artist intended, but never mind!

I love this picture - this is Ben looking through one of the tubes through the middle of the cylinders :-)

All in all we had a great day.

And in case you were wondering, Zoe decided to go to sleep in the end, but it was a close run thing!