These plates were painted by school children and exhibited in the National Glass Centre in Sunderland. They were created during a special craft session and with inspiration drawn from the Willow Pattern Story.
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This collage started out with a different photo that gave me the idea and didn’t make it into the final design:
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Pink and yellow – this fun swimming facility, just before sunrise.
It’s not a terribly original message, but the bench itself is quite unusual. I saw it in the Kleinwalsertal, this little curious part of Austria that is only accessible via Germany.
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I couldn’t decide which one to pick. Both photos were taken at the National Botanical Show (Bundesgartenschau) in Brandenburg Germany this spring.
The adventure trail leaving from the “Biosphärenhaus Pfälzerwald/Nordvogesen” in Germany bordering the French Alsace region is marked with pictures of ants. And then there is this wood sculpture in the middle of the forest.
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Black, red, and white. This is at the end of the C2C bike route (from sea to sea, west coast to east coast) on Roker Beach, Sunderland.
Bench with a message
When I saw this message on a bench in Princess Garden in Edinburgh it caused me to check up on the tragedy of Air New Zealand.
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I found another bench – this time with a decidedly autumnal theme, figuratively and literally – in Durham, Northumberland.
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I saw these benches on Roker Beach in Sunderland, but the most poignant plaque – about refugees coming in a small boat from Norway during the second world war – is from Holy Island some 100 miles further north.
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