I guess whilst he's a little one we can get away with boring him by going to museums and things like that! The thought of a tiny tot terror running amock around the Emma Bridgewater shop is a bit terrifying, but whilst he's in his buggy we can do these things now.
Yesterday we went to the Potteries museum in Stoke on Trent. It was a great place, with lots to see, and entertaining too. My in-laws are up from Devon and like most people from 'the south' felt that Stafford is way up north, and very bleak, industrial and with a funny accent!
When Steve moved here for University they were worried about where he'd be living, and were pleasantly surprised to find there was grass and fields, and woodlands and that sort of thing!! Staffordshire is one of the longest counties in the UK and we have all manner of lands from the industrial black country at the south, the green and pleasant lands for the middle and the moors and fells of the north part! We have Cannock Chase in the middle and rolling fields and I think it's beautiful here!
Anyway, I digress. The point is they'd never been to Stoke and it was nice to show them somewhere new and a bit of where my family is from. My Grandma left school at 14 to work in the potteries (she was a lithographer) and there's so much history surrounding Stoke.
The Museum is well worth a visit. They have various areas, with a spitfire (Reginald Mitchell was a local person who designed them, doesn't specify how local so must google him!) and history through the decades. Chris was a bit put out that things he remembers from the '60's are now in a museum and not considered modern or useful anymore!! In the ceramics area we found a piece of Cranston pottery, made in the 1920's by a smaller pottery firm called Pearl pottery. And it was a lovely big, light and airy room with lots of space for Joel to have a good crawl about as he was getting bored of being pushed in his buggy.
In the afternoon after our oatcake lunch at the museum cafe, we popped over to Emma Bridgewater's shop and bought a few bits and bobs. I found a pint mug in the seconds with my name on, perfect to match my pink heart 'Kate' plate (also found in the seconds)! Chris and Wendy got a couple of mugs as well and enjoyed the place, it was really busy with it being half term.
Then we headed home to Stafford with a tired baby, worn out from all the visits we'd made.
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