The Brixworth Day Mosaic Continued in the Studio

After the day at the Country Park artist Carole Miles continued to work on the Spring / Summer Panel. Here are images taken in her studio as the mosaic grew!

You can read about the walks that inspired this panel here and here and the Flickr sets here and here

The panel has now been grouted with black grout.

Fabrication at Brampton Halt

I had hoped to make some up-cycled china delights on the station platform at Brampton Halt during the Jubilee Weekend 

but the rain put paid to that idea, instead I decided that simple fabric corsages would be easy for all ages and skills, quick and would use some of the many scraps of vintage fabric I have been gifted from  friends and friends mums!

I reasoned that if my kit was small and portable I could easily set up shop inside the train and catch participants as they waited for the journey to begin.

This approach worked well 

and soon children, parents and grandparents 

were working together

in spite of some initial shyness.

It was lovely to see people sharing and enjoying a such simple but pleasurable activity 

whilst the lush, damp Northamptonshire countryside rattled by.

I also spent some time in the Buffet car and met people who had travelled from Scotland to spend some time at the station. You can see some of the creators, creations and sterling NLR volunteers showing off their up-cycled finery!

I couldn't resist adding this picture of one of the NLR team tucking into a feast known as The Engineers Special - it seemed to have every element of a tradition English breakfast barring the egg!

Scoping the Route & Meeting the Tellers of Tall Tales

To get On the Right Track off to a flying start Carole Miles and Andrew Rushton cycled from Brampton Halt to Market Harborough and back along the Brampton Valley Way in order to scope out the route and plan future events. 

Healthy lunch (just ignore the pork pies!)

The bench which gave us the idea to include Storytellers in this project.

dedicated to Amit Bhattacharya Story Teller and Healer

Frisky Huskies - you never know who you might meet along the Valley way!

Not far now

A lovely park in Market Harborough ended the first part of the cycle, after a quick stop Carole & Andrew headed back the way they came, the total route is about 28 miles.

Carole met Word in Edgeways Storytellers Philippa Tipper and Allan Davies at Brampton Halt where they met Graham Peacock,

explored the station, Signal Box and walked to the end of the first section of the Brampton Valley Way.

So here's to the start of a project full of walking, talking, cycling, healthy eating, tall tales, great books and a spot of upcycling!