Proof that the signage was never just a suggestion – this lane was definitely living up to its name! It got really really watery that afternoon (but at least the puddle shows a bit of blue sky was around).

A very sweet old log (clearly shaped by nature with a lot of love). I was hoping there’d be plenty of little creatures nicely housed in there.

She loves trees – and I wanted to demonstrate just how massive this one was.

Sick To Death and its unusual science (you could certainly call it educational!)…

…and the instructions on this stone structure taught me what a pomander actually was (we got to bring it home too!).

… and he’s called Astro Tedd (and can apparently take his suit off). We managed not to purchase him.

This does say ‘the only advertised remedy indorsed by the medical profession’, but whether it would make it past modern advertising rules I’m not sure…

This ancient thing meant I learnt about the 17th century part of Japanese culture – the three wise monkeys (called Mizaru,
Kikazaru, and Iwazaru).

This massive thing (Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon artwork) was dangling from the ceiling of Chester cathedral. It’s the moon – there as a stop on it’s global journey – from 9 February until 2 March.

It’s at an approximate scale of 1:600,000, so each centimetre of the artwork represents 3.7 miles (6km) of the actual moon’s surface; and NASA imagery’s been used to replicate the lunar surface.

And I think every baker would like to know the secrets of this!