TARDIS Tuesday- Classic Who outfit from Peri Brown in Planet of Fire and The Caves of Androzani

Hi there,

It's been a lovely bank holiday weekend.  Not quite the one I expected, esp since we made no particular plans and I am incredibly snotty and coughy, but namely the sun has shone.

Thus it seemed appropriate for my TARDIS Tuesday to reflect the clement weather.

I am inspired by an outfit worn by 80's classic Who companion, Peri (Perpugilliam) Brown who was an American Botany student who met the Doctor in Lanzarote! She wore it for both her first and second episodes, the names of which are in the blog title.

I have attempted this outfit before, back in  June 2016.

It felt just what I needed to wear for being out in the garden, reading in the long grass (I LOVE how the grass is for No Mow May- I like sitting in it when it is long, not so much when short!) 

Let's look at it.

Image borrowed from:
https://hoganreviews.co.uk/2017/12/16/dw-the-caves-of-androzani-review/ 

Image borrowed from:
http://theruedmorgue.blogspot.com/2012/02/doctor-who-caves-of-androzani-special.html

She wears pink high-waisted shorts with a pink top of some sort underneath. She wears simple white pumps on her feet and on top, she has a pastel checked blou

She wears pale pink high-waisted, fairly long shorts with a very pale pastel rainbow-checked shirt, tied up. Under it, she wears a peachy halterneck bikini.

I started with the shorts.  These are ridiculously comfortable and cost me very little second-hand a few years ago.  They have an elasticated back and button up and are made of a cotton linen mix. These are the same ones I wore in 2021. I see no need to change them. They are perfect coloured, shape and comfortable and they still fit me (unlike a few other pairs of shorts in my wardrobe).

You can't really see my feet but I am wearing nude-coloured ballet pumps. Very old, very crackly,but suitable for this type of thing!

I've used a different blouse from last time. I wore my question-mark shirt and then my brighter rainbow checked shirt last time but they were brighter. I found this one in the charity shop last year and realised it was the closest I was going to get to Peri's shirt.  I wore it mainly unbuttoned but tied at the bottom to mimic Peri's. After the photos, I wore it buttoned more and tucked in but I like it tied as it works with the high waist.    The shirt works so much better for this cosplay and I've realised, this is an outfit I might wear for school, as it is, in the early Summer.

One thing I am a little sad about is that I had the perfect bikini top for this cosplay, it was almost identical in shape to Peri's but a more bright red but I think I must have given it away to a charity shop last year. I didn't have matching bottoms so it seemed silly to have it. Only now have I realised its potential!

The lighting was dreadful for these photos but the original images are grainy so perhaps it is ok!

I spent much of the day reading my Kate Shackleton books and swapping over my Summer and Winter wardrobe items!

Hope you are well!

Kezzie xx

Images borrowed from:

http://fallenrocket.blogspot.com/2020/08/top-five-big-damn-hero-moments-peri.html 

https://theultimateguidetothefashionofdoctorwho.wordpress.com/2019/06/08/peri-brown-planet-of-fire-plus-size-edition/

Do visit these websites- they are great!

Ship ahoy!!

We ended up going out on a boat ride around Wallasea island fairly last minute!  Happily, since we were going to embark on a maritime journey, it was rather fortunate what I had chosen to wear that morning- it was already nautical!

Alas, this Lindybop dress feels dreadfully tight these days! Oh how I wish I had got a 10!!!

It was fun to wear such an outfit whilst wandering around million pound yachts!! Yes, there was one for sale that was £3million!  It's amazing how the other half live!

I've had a really nice weekend but more on that soon!  Was avoiding computer all weekend!

xx

The truth about cats and dogs

I thought I'd intersperse my Germany and France adventures with different blog posts to try and keep things varied here and to try and not make it too samey!

Here's an outfit from before the holidays.

CBC always says I am wearing his school uniform when I wear this Closet London dress as the pattern is quite similar to his school's skirt.

The beauty of these Closet dresses is that you can wear a blouse underneath, pinafore-style and wear them all year round, not just in the Summer. They have pockets and I always know their size 8 will fit me perfectly in these fit-and-flare styles.

The obvious choice was my stalwart turquoise Doc Martens and this time, my Miss Patina Love cat blouse. It seemed  quite a fun idea to add this acrylic dog brooch though I am kicking myself for not putting it on the other side so it looked like the dog was looking up at the cat instead of stubbornly ignoring it!

I have had a very nice weekend. It has largely consisted of garden and nature-based activities which I will share more of in my #30dayswild round-up this week but has felt very satisfying and though I am always sad to go back to work, it has been a very good holiday on the whole!

I hope all is well with you.

Finally remembering to link with lovely Patti at Visible Mondays

Tea towel club

When I see our girls wearing those cute gingham school dresses, I remember the happy times of primary school summers when I could wear one of those pretty, cool dresses for school. Twas a happy time. I know, for some people, that school was not a happy time. But, for me, school was always happy. I cried when I got things wrong or couldn't understand something, but on the whole, I regard my school days, particularly primary as wonderful times. We had the most amazing school field. It was absolutely enormous- vast stretches of grass with trees around the fence.  Our favourite trees were the weeping willows- there were two of them that were leaning downwards forming a canopy/tent. My friends and I seemed to spend all lunchtime playing in there. I wonder, if any other children ever got a look in, because it seems like we were always there!  Even now, when I go past my old primary school, I smile upon it and recall a myriad happy times.

 Seguing into this dress.  We always used to say we were the tea towel club wearing our gingham summer dresses and when CBC bought me this Lindybop dress (that I had admired for well over a year but resisted buying when it was back in stock), I was put in mind of our school dresses. It is every bit as lovely as I imagined, comfy,cotton, pockets. All the good things.  It seemed appropriate to wear with this Erstwilder book owl brooch.   I really liked this design for ages- it is Harry Potteresque and fun, yet sweet. The owl has really benevolent eyes. I bought this with some birthday money from my Dad

Summer- times of cotton dresses and bare legs- no wrestling with tights in the morning! Hurrah!

Hope all is well with you.
xx

Blanket cover

 It's been a long time since I wore TARDIS blue overtly.Voila, TARDIS blue in profusion!  I wasn't going to make the mistake I made last Sunday with church being freezing so I pulled out the big guns with this vintage blanket skirt. I wasn't cold. Result.

 And I find it hard to find things to wear these Irregular Choice, Poetic Licence shoes with so a minute bit of yellow was my cue!

 I really enjoyed church this morning.  We had a visitor from the cathedral who talked on going from being a disciple to an apostle.   I think one of my favourite books of the Bible is 2 Timothy which he read from.  It was the source of the first Christian song I wrote and even now, I read it and think of how encouraging its message it is.  Paul was encouraging a young Timothy in his walk with faith in Christ.  Encouragement is something really important to give each other.
Being an apostle is taking that step from following to sharing your message of faith.

It's so easy not to take the time to encourage, whether as a Christian or not.  You doubt your own self and abilities and it can be easy to forget to encourage other people in whatever.  Telling someone they are doing something well, that they can do it, telling them of the good things that have happened to you, and encouraging them in new paths. Telling someone you are praying for them, offering help and time.  A church friend has been a great source of encouragement for me this month in his family's selflessness in offering CBC and I a place to rent.

You here encourage me.  I think the encouragement that we as bloggers can give each other is very important.  Shamu, a regular commenter on this blog, has show through his poetry on his blog, that he has a constant struggle with acceptance and friendship in life (I hope you don't mind me saying that) and frequently shows gratitude for the encouragement he receives. Reciprocally, he is very, very good at encouraging people through comments, kindness and appreciation, even if his tights excitement is a little bit on the edge! :)  Lovely Laura, at Daisychain dream has struggled with eating disorders over the years, and I know as blog friends, the fact she trusts us to tell us of the struggles is an encouragement to us and we should encourage her in her journey.  Ally is finding her path presenting as a female and our encouragement of her in this is so important to building confidence. I've mentioned before, that Ally is a hugely important force of encouragement and good in the blogging world.  I could go on, but I suspect I will lose you. Every one I have come across in blogging needs encouragement. Encouragement to continue, encouragement for energy, for time and for struggles they have encountered. It is a privilege to be able to make a little contribution towards those struggles with a word here or there.

I've met a lovely new blogger this week, Ellie at This Country Girl's journal (I was her first commenter!) please go and say hi and comment on her blog to encourage her in her first month of blogging!

I hope all is well with you. Is there anything you need encouragement for? Or is there anything I can pray for? Just let me know!

xxx

Off to link up with lovely Patti who is the original encourager of beautiful bloggers everywhere with her link Visible Monday. I'm also glad it is Hat Attack with beautiful Judith because I am wearing my favourite Cloche that CBC gave me for Christmas 2 years ago!

Mixed thoughts and ponderings

I was chatting on the phone to my little sister earlier, discussing school.  I said that I wished children wouldn't be so rude when they don't want to do something any more,  by just not turning up and telling their friends they didn't want to do it anymore. It just makes me cross that they don't know and use the social niceties, especially when they know I get annoyed by other children doing it. For instance, two girls who used to be in many music clubs last year are now not in anything, the last thing they dropped out of was recorder club.  I told them I thought it was really rude that they hadn't bothered to tell me.  I don't mind if they don't want to continue but tell me. Anyway, I was telling my sister about it today and she put forward the thought that perhaps (particularly in the girls' case), the reason they don't like telling me is they don't want to hurt my feelings by not wanting to do it any more.  That is actually a good point. But still, they need to learn to do things the proper way.  Anyway, it did make me think!

I took this photo back at the beginning of September and hadn't shared it. This was a charity-shop find for £2 in a St Francis hospice whilst I tried to keep myself entertained whilst CBC was having a hair cut! It is ridiculously comfy and I love the black collar. Bit of a black-collar fan, it seems.

I used to write lots of book reviews on this blog but since about April, I've struggled to motivate myself to do them- I like it to be a synopsis with my own thoughts but I found this time consuming in an unenjoyable manner which is a shame because I did used to like writing them, but when I couldn't quite remember details and would have to search for whichever pile of mess I left it in, the number build up and I became disheartened. But perhaps I will try to ressurrect this feature soon. The trouble is, I find it very hard to be concise. Anyway, if you are interested in what I am reading at all, I have a book page on my blog here but I have no idea how make it appear as a tab at the top so if you have any ideas how, let me know. I am technologically inept.

I've been reading Terry Pratchett's 'The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents' and I just find him so witty and imaginative.  That said, I can only read one Pratchett at a time, not read them consecutively, but I do think he was a clever man and I'd like to read his final novel.

My choir is going very well so far- having a great time with my now, 21 children, they are singing well and the number is a good, healthy number without being unwieldy.   One really positive thing is how well the year 3's are taking to learning the recorder- they are ridiculously excited about learning to read music and having their own recorder- the beams on their faces when they ask me if they are having a recorder lesson today is great.  A lot of behaviour challenging children are being very positive with only one or two children finding it hard to concentrate- they AREN'T easy to teach, but the enthusiasm is wonderful! One boy took my idea of composing his own melodies and notating them and came in with this immaculate score of his own music! It only consists of B's and A's but he's really dedicated and it looks impressive- I have high hopes for him next year, learning the cornet!

Very excited about the University reunion this Saturday, so excited to see my old professors and hopefully see old friends- we will be going on a boat cruise on the Thames and getting dressed up, hurrah!  I told a couple of friends who are graduates from my Uni but went there a good 10 years and 30 years respectively, before me, so it will be nice to see them too.

Not being doing much craft except for making a few brooches which I will share soon.

It was nice tonight, to do a colleague a favour and adapt some maths investigations for her as she is up to her eyes in paperwork and was very grateful- it's nice if you can do something small occasionally for someone.

CBC made me a lovely dinner of salmon, savoy cabbage in yoghurt, shallots cooked in coconut oil (delicious) and parmesan-encrusted potatoes as a thank you for me cooking for him all week when he's been stressed. The kitchen, however, is a complete pigsty...

How's tricks with you?

x

TARDIS Tuesday does the Sound of Music!

Howdy there folks!

Technically, this will end up as TARDIS Wednesday but how sadly unalliterative! 

Sometimes, I will put an outfit on and know it looks horrible! This morning, I knew that today's TARDIS Tuesday wouldn't win me any style/fashion prizes but I always carry something through to its conclusion.  CBC took one look and me and said, "You are going to wear THAT???" 

At school, I was told I looked like I was wearing an Austrian traditional costume (Dirndl, I presume they were implying!). Presumably I resembled a horrid curtain-bedecked runaway extra from the Sound of Music.

Not my finest hour.

"But..." you gasp, "What does this have to do with Doctor Who????"

Come closer and I shall tell you.

 Let's adopt a snooty pose?  Familiar?
No, ok, then I'll explain.

The Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, was my inspiration  for today.  He was in fact my TARDIS Tuesady inspiration a while back where I debuted my Ang-Almond customised Question mark shirt. His lurid coat has always made me think of my Vintage Madras-checked dress with its rainbow of colours and the checks and the crossover neckline reminding me of a waistcoat.   If it was cooler, I'd have added the aforementioned shirt underneath but it being too hot, I added a pussy bow blouse instead which is a nod to the bow tied at his shirt neck.

Image borrowed from Tansyrr

The best part of this outfit is one you can only notice close up.   Colin Baker always wore a cat brooch on his lapel. In fact, these were his own, not the costume department and was his own eccentric addition to the outfit. He had several.

In my recent experiments with shrink plastic celery brooches, I also made a white cat brooch as my second attempt. I was quite pleased with it- it's quite plump!

The final touch was adding these red polka dot ballet pumps from Primark. I've had them ten years and I adore them- I'll be gutted when they finally die.  They are a nod to the polka dot necktie as he did sport a red spotty necktie in later episodes.

Outfit details:

Madras check dress: M&S via Charity shop

Unironed pussybow blouse: French Connection via Charity shop.

Shoes: Primark 10 years ago.

Cat brooch: made by me.

Earrings: Cath Kidston

So...over to you. 

Are you sporting some cobalt (obvs called TARDIS blue), do you have a cat brooch or feel like attaching celery to your bosom?  Fancy doodling question marks over your vest or wearing a Clara Oswaldesque Topshop dress?  Then this is the link for you...

Linking to Claire Justine's Creative Mondays

An InLinkz Link-up

A flatline on a slant

"That is the cutest thing I've seen!"

Posting a day or two early for TARDIS Tuesday, but it's Patti's cool Visible Monday party and I am doing my visible thing here as well as Claire Justine's Fab Creative Mondays.  

This is a similar outfit to one  I posted back in October but I decided to wear my lovely cheerful bright plaid Clara Flatline shirt from my Clara cosplay back then but in a different way.  Decided to up the TARDIS blue stakes and add the TARDIS blue cardie, different accessories. Oh and an even smaller TARDIS!

I think Flatline was possibly my most favourite episode of the last season. I just thought it was so cleverly conceived- the villains of the piece being 2D creatures.  The way they evolved was brilliant and the moment where the graffiti turned round and came out of the walls was VERY SCARY!!! I should add, that though I love Doctor Who, I am also a numero uno wuss and get scared easily.

There's a girl who comes to church who also loves Doctor Who and I let her into the secret that I secret cosplay Doctor Who on some days and only Doctor Who fans would realise it. She thought it was hilarious!

Had a very thought-provoking church service today, in fact I went to the evening informal Come together service which I thoroughly enjoyed and 2 gripping sermons that spoke to me. I definitely want to write about them and what I will try to do as a result but need a bit more thought. Also agree to help edit and upload sermons to the church Youtube channel which should be interesting. I'm glad to help in a different way too. I went to church dressed as Amy Pond, but that's also for another day.

Eeeek, take a look at the dust on that TARDIS roof!!!!

I have certainly got much wear out of my Flapper Doodle collarclips since I bought them in October. Since Clara has collarclips, this is a nod to her Caretaker outfit too.

I felt really good in this outfit on Tuesday. Had to head up to London for orchestra (hurrah, back to playing!) -comfortable but smart. And I don't like wearing dull colours, so a winner in that respect!




It's cool having short hair. I really do like it!!! So much easier to cope with though lacking long hair for Clara cosplays- disaster!!!







Linking lovelies...

Flatline

It's Doctor Who day, so it's time for another Cosplay of Clara!! And today, I am trying to recreate Clara's outfit from today's episode, Flatline.  Ha, I am THAT sad, that I looked up what was coming!

Image borrowed from http://www.polyvore.com/clara_oswald/set?id=126758515

This is a great, comfy weekend look but not too boring as it involves a nice bright checked shirt in my favourite colours of red and blue.  I, of course, do not have Clara's wardrobe so I had to try and find items which best matched the outfit.

Shirt: H&M (current)
Coat: £5 bargain in Nottinghill!
Binoculars necklace: random boutique somewhere.
Trousers: H&M
Wedged desert boots: Clarks originals

I am excited every week to watch Doctor Who! I love having something to look forward to on iPlayer as there is not much I like,though I love The Apprentice and You're fired and I loved The Great British Bake-Off.  I'd like to watch Downton too  but ITVplayer doesn't seem to be working on my computer!


I'm currently watching Flatline as I type, in between, as I was out at a church Cabaret evening tonight. It was super. Our church is SO flexible as a space- the church was turned into a cabaret venue with candles all around, round tables and acts coming up.  I played 2 pieces- a piece inspired by Jethro Tull and Moon River (with CBC at an hour's notice!). Everyone seemed to enjoy them.  There was SUCH a good variety of acts of various ages.  A 15-year old with the voice of an angel who sang a McFly and Jessie J song in her own style playing guitar, a Vicar of Dibley sketch butchered based on our church, a Joyce Grenfell narration called 'Free activity' based on nursery school teaching (hilarious), Nuns on the run, a 10 and 11 year old clarinet and flautists, a 60's cover band called Night Shift and some great singers and narrators.  Everything had a light tone and it was well attended- must have been well over 150 there! It was a privilege to be part of and I hope we raised much for the church tower restoration.

And, it's happened again- like last week, the TARDIS has shrunk, only this time, the Doctor really is stuck inside, he's tiny!


Better get help!

See you anon, I'm off to a drum-making workshop tomorrow...

xx

Eek, forgot it was Visible Monday today so linking up with the fab Patti and co. Do go and see the vivacious and colourful crowd over there



and Creative Mondays with the super Claire Justine!  I feel today's look is a very Claire look!x

Back to the blackboard

Another SIA with Salazar inspired by Winslow Homer’s “Blackboard”.   Firstly, I noted the gingham on her overall and the grey of her dress with a little nod towards the hairbow/band.  Decided just to go with that really and the simple palette (plus very schoolish-looking Mary Janes- from Rieker- thank you to the Cobbler in Haltwhistle high street who I bought them from- nice shoes!)  and combine some items.



My favourite swing-dance dress from Lindy-Lou's plus a hairbow I found in the lost property at camp and wore one day then found it in my stuff when I got back home (ooops!) plus a Miss Selfridge shrug (nicely wrinkled, like our inspiration) and grey school-ish tights.  You can hopefully see what I was trying to do!

It was very a very appropriate piece of artwork since I was going back to school this week. I actually only taught on one day- Friday, as the first day the teachers didn't require their PPA. Friday morning, I took year 2 and didn't teach music.  Every child created their own set of number bonds to 10 cards on heart templates,  They were supposed to be making a ribbon and matching the hearts up, e.g. 2 and 8 but there wasn't much space to display them in the classroom so I suggested we turn it into a game and very happily they sat their playing pairs with their number bond cards. At the end of the lesson, we had 'fastest match' with the class to match all the pairs of number bonds and put them in a sequence and I wrote their names down in a hall of fame as they completed it! It worked ridiculously well and I told them they could take them home and play them at home to learn them! 

The afternoon was fun as well. I had year 5 and I was trying to teach them about how to create interesting repeated rhythms as a starting lesson for Cyclic drumming and taught them about syncopation as I really wanted to challenge them to try and create funky rhythms.  They each had to create an ostinato (repeated pattern) based on what they had for breakfast (they could use reality or lie) using words to help them form the rhythm and they'd play it 4 times then the class would join in with that rhythm for about 6 more repetitions. After that I asked them to identify if it was straight or syncopated (emphasizing weak beats instead of strong beats) which they seemed to get the hang of and then one of the children suggested we add an extra dimension to the game by voting whether it was a truth or lie, so I went with it and it added a fun dimension.  One of my favourite moments was when M, a very gifted musician, came up with the most off-beat beat, funky and syncopated pattern imaginable and he sniffed in the rests like I'd done!  And I loved the fact that Z, who A, who sometimes finds it hard to play in time, came up with fun rhythm and managed to play it steadily and well. It was an enjoyable lesson and I'm only sorry I ran out of time with the second class and didn't manage to create  4-layered textures improvised with 4 children at a time.

After school, I spent time trying to film tutorial videos for the music website as a resource the children can refer to.

It was a good day all in all.

Hope all is well with you.
xx

Once insecure, always insecure?

On Saturday, CBC and I travelled to Watford for a day and night of Swing-dance courtesy of JiveSwing, our dance class, which is a big organisation of classes, ours being just one. It was a great day, we had some super classes- the day was held in honour of Frankie Manning's 100th birthday (if he was still alive)- the Father of bringing Swing dance back to the UK in the '80's.

We had two lindy-hop classes, learning a Frankie lindy-stroll and then a dips and tricks workshop. CBC decided he wanted to do some authentic jazz instead so I had to find another partner to dance with and managed to dance with a fun, young guy I met in the queue- it was hilarious as we learned to do these dips. I got the giggles as I had to spend a long time hugging him as we learnt a dip and then a move where I had to swing under his arm. I am suffering today though as my quads are really aching as the move involved rotating in a squat position!

In the evening, I wore the above outfit. I didn't take any photos-crazy for me! CBC just got this slightly blurry one of me- I wore the dress I picked up a while back, worn with my birthday petticoat and a wired headband- I really like these!

Anyway, in the evening, apart from many enjoyable dances together,  CBC was asked to dance lots by lots of ladies. I was asked to dance a few times by some guys although not as many and felt a wallflower at times. It's so silly but the pair of us are so insecure about asking people to dance just in case they think we are rubbish! Everyone else seems perfectly happy to ask other people to dance (it's the way your dancing improves). It's silly because I did spend a some time standing at the edge wishing someone would ask me to dance but like my teenage-self, in my stupid subconscious, didn't want anyone to think that I really wanted to dance, so I didn't get disappointed if they didn't dance.  I am an idiot- I am 33 and should just get on with it.  It's funny though, sometimes I feel much more confident.  Last night, I found myself thinking that the reason is because I always want to do something well and never want to be thought to be bad at something and I am not an expert at lindy and probably never will be, I just love it.

Yet, this morning, I played in my new church for the first time (9am rehearsal after getting to bed at 2am!!!!! I was KNACKERED!).  I KNOW that I am a a capable flautist and I know I play well and I know that when I am in the spirit at church, I will play and worship with my heart and soul. I know from 10 years of playing at my old church that my playing really helps people to worship.  And yet, I was worrying to myself that people would be judging me and didn't want people to say nice things to me just in case they were just being nice, not meaning it! Of all the ridiculous things to think!?!???!!?! Of course they're not, it's just my stupid mind.  Of course, once I started playing, I felt myself fill with the spirit and felt the insecurities fly away.

It's interesting that Stuart, a guy was being baptised today and he talked about how he had faced anxiety in his life and couldn't seem to snap out of it until he gave his life to God. And it struck me, when I feel most insecure and lacking confidence is when I stop praying, speaking to God and reading the Bible, when I've left tiredness and laziness get in the way, just let slip and then all my insecurities come back.  So today, I will reclaim my confidence and be strong in the knowledge that I do have talents that God has given me and I can do well and be strengthened by him in my prayers.  And there may be things that I am not talented at, but they are things I should enjoy because they are God-given and I've been given the freedom to enjoy these! Be the best that I can be but accept that I will not always be the best but I can have the most fun!

Linking to Visible Mondays with dear Patti

Meet me at the temple

We had a really fun day at Vindolanda.  For anyone that doesn't know, this is an archaeological dig in Northumberland, not far from Hadrian's wall.  It was a Roman military settlement for many years



 Entire outfit (except hiding walking boots= thrifted/charity shop-
M&S vintage (80's???) check dress, belt from vintage dress, coat originally H&M, Beret (Primark new)

Not far from Hadrian's Wall, you can see archaeologists working on digs as you wander around

Vindolanda was once upon a time, one of the key military posts in the north of England.  It is the home of Britain's Top Treasure according to a vote by the British Public- a series of wooden writing tablets that give us an insight into the lives of the Roman soldiers and their families in Roman times. It is a miracle that they survived for us to be able to read, since they were made of thin wood and had they not been preserved upon some layers of bracken without exposure to oxygen, they would have perished along with all other wood/paper matter.

The site is extensive and you can see the ruins and remains of the Roman town: residences of officers and barracks, a temple to an unknown God, mausoleum...

Reproduction fort and site in the middle of archaeological dig- there are nine layers of settlements built on top of each other over the occupation period

Water containers

During the drier weather, you can see volunteers digging on the site, carefully searching for interesting matter.  I stood and watched some volunteers and saw one unearthing some pieces of pottery and we talked to the head of the site who told us a few things.

There is a reproduction fort at the edge of the site and a repro Roman temple which is pictured above with me.

The museum was interesting with many relics and finds and transcriptions of the wooden writing tablets.

There were several of these 'workshops' that contain many unexhibited findings- pottery, metal, stone, wood etc

Carvings

Roman sandals- already pictured in my Roman wishlist post

Glass beads

I'd definitely recommend a visit to here.  You can also visit its sister site, the Roman military museum, some miles along Hadrians' wall!

Aerial view from the reproduction fort