Julip Live 2019 - Photobombing

Christine was supposed to make the trip down with us, but was suffering so badly from her sciatica that she wasn't able for the journey. She sent some photo cut-outs of herself down to Tomás, which I quickly appropriated and immediately got slightly carried away.

Julip Live 2019 - The Show, Part 5

More Mold classes and Mold Championship

Julip Live 2019 - The Show, Part 4

More Mold classes...

Julip Live 2019 - The Show, Part 3

Performance - Ridden horse/pony, Jumping, and Other

Julip Live 2019 - The Show, Part 2

More from scenes and other performance

Julip Live 2019 - The Show, Part 1

We got up and out the door in good time for our hour drive to Littlemore. After threatening our phones a bit, we managed to get the GPS to cooperate and we made it to the hall with very few detours.

Pet Spares

Julip Live 2019 - Traveling

This was the year I finally made it down to Julip Live. I drove down to Magda's on Thursday evening and we took the train down to Oxford from Edinburgh Friday morning. The trip actually went quite smoothly, and we arrived in Stroud in the late afternoon where we were picked up by some hobby friends who had very kindly invited us to stay with them and carpool to the show.

Driving to Edinburgh

Lake District Live 2019 - The Show

Since it's around a five hour trip for me, I prefer to arrive the day before and leave the day after the show instead of driving down at oh-god o'clock for the 9am opening time and driving home in the middle of the night after the dinner.

It was a surprisingly uneventful drive down, and we didn't get lost once which was a minor miracle.

We usually try to time things to arrive later in the afternoon so we can check in directly and put our things in the room, out of the hot car, and then have a bit of a walk around. Most of my pictures of the area are in the Travels with Rok posts.

Travels With Farfrae Ragnarök Aftershock - Monday

Since neither of us had anywhere we really needed to be on Monday, we made a tour of some of the charity shops we had missed on Saturday after we loaded up Spot. We left town around 12:30 and made it back to Glasgow around 4:30. Right as we pulled into Eg's neighbourhood, Spot's exhaust burst (this happens frequently), so I had a very long, slow, and extremely loud drive home. It was nearly eight by the time I roared into my driveway.

Travels With Farfrae Ragnarök Aftershock - Sunday

The show as usual, was wonderful. Stacey and her family have it down to an art and are lovely and friendly and make everyone the most delightful goodie bags. It's a small crowd, but we have such fun together.

Travels With Farfrae Ragnarök Aftershock - Saturday

It's that time of year again, time for the one show far enough north for me to easily reach. It's only about five hours away, but I like to have company when I travel, so I usually pick up a couple of friends on the way. This year Magda was away for her sister's wedding, so I only had to swing through Glasgow for EG before heading south. This year I remembered to keep out a travel pony with which to amuse myself.


Getting ready to leave Kirriemuir for Glasgow, a drive which usually takes around two hours.

The Adventures of Southern Gothic Zirondelle - Summer Holiday

The next time Zirondelle left the house was for our 2016 summer holiday in August. We usually go down the east coast and up the west coast, but this year we went down the west coast first, in order to catch a vintage vehicle show in Leyland.

Best Western Premier, Leyland