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Bankside Gallery: Preston Road take over part two

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Open today and tomorrow, the Preston Road take over part two which is part of the Bankside Gallery.  We went along to check it out and we captured a lot of photographs and some video clips, keep reading to find out out thoughts.

About the take over;

This is the second Preston Road takeover Bankside Gallery have hosted.

The council have been kind enough to donate 22 derelict houses which are soon going to be demolished – these will be transformed on the weekend by more than 100 artists from around the UK.

This time we’ll have more artists, more houses & a great selection of local DJs, good food & a bar.

For more information see the Facebook event here

 

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We bumped into Katy Cobb who creates fantastic murals from Wall Things Bright and Beautiful.

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We came across this painted onto the pavement in a few locations and we couldn’t resist getting our feet in the picture as we have a few photographs of our feet as a family, Geocaching, on the beach and bowling. Another to add to the collection.

What we thought of the take over: 

Jen says; “Its beautiful to see different artists creating something out of nothing, I loved seeing the personality splashed onto the walls”

Rob says; “Interesting project, these big spaces been temporarily turned into visual pieces of art”

Sophie says; “I thought it was amazing because I got to see lots of people create inspiring paintings”

Riley says; “I think that some houses are very good with the graffiti, my favourite one was the sunflower and bee one”

Robyn says; “A banana one”

 

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVECjTTU3lU&w=560&h=315]

 

If you have been, what did you think?

The Gilmour’s

Snowday Funday

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Last weekend we had so much fun in the little snow that came to us in Hull, East Yorkshire. Grabbing the sledges out of the shed that we had bought on offer last year it was time to finally use them… and what fun we had!

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Urban Legends: Northern Lights

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Friday 30th and the Gilmour’s set out into Hull City Centre for the Urban Legends: Northern Lights. It’s only on until the 2nd December and so we thought going on a Friday  may be quieter, especially with three children to walk around and get good views.

A FREE event to enjoy on an autumn evening.

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We started at the Hull Minster which was indoors and a mesh like screen which made the display look 3D, I have shared some of the footage in the video if you keep scrolling down. It was fascinating but our three year old found it scary and we didn’t stay long, there is also a one way system which you don’t realise until you try and get out. It wasn’t a good start to our evening but we persevered and it was worth it.

An interactive walkway proved popular for our three children and it was rather impressive as you walked almost the whole length of Parliament Street. Rob and I rather enjoyed it as well, the sound effects and change in the walkway, it was a beautiful and colourful display.

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A teepee in the Queens Gardens with a projection from the inside out and I was delighted to see a signer for the hearing impaired.

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A colourful pattern display in King Edwards Square was again lovely to watch but our favourite has got to be…

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Oh the night!

We were very excited to see a fox feature in the story and the older children were able to follow the wording of the story. An amazing choir that brought it to life even more and lasting around 15 minutes. Check out the video below.

We didn’t however take advantage of the 3 shop windows on Whitefriargate due to having the pram for our youngest and not wanting to fight the crowd. If you get a chance to go and you have children, try and get there earlier in the day and check out Whitefriargate first, considering to not take a pram may be the best option for viewing on this area.

Enjoy…

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When Daddy makes tea…

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I had to share this with you- As I sat on the sofa heating my back for some relief, Daddy went to make the kids tea.

20 minutes later and there was a loud knock at the door. I invited the kids to answer the door with me, they all rushed not knowing what to expect. Daddy was stood there with three deliveries of his very own pizza! Gilmours Pizza! The kids rushed to the living room as it’s Friday we have a chilled out evening. They enjoyed the difference in their tea this evening. Some fun and laughter along the way.

Daddy used some packaging from our home business OuTFox, specialising in metal printing.

Cheap to do and fun, I loved how my hubby enjoyed creating it for the kids.

Have a great weekend.

Jennifer

Museum of the Moon

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Yesterday evening we went a long to our second Freedom Festival event. Earlier this week we went along to The Print Shop in preparation for the weekends events.

The opening of the Museum of the Moon in the Hull Minster was Thursday evening and so we thought going along to beat some of the crowd at the weekend would make it more special. It was worth it!

The moon is made with real NASA imagery and 1cm of this moon represents 5km of the real moon itself. I think that in itself drew us to look at the detail. Photos are hard to capture because it looks like a 2D moon but it is a sphere.

The three children were in awe of it and wanted plenty of photographs with the moon.

Even we couldn’t resist it…

We are planning to come back and see the moon lit up at night as well. If you are local to Hull then we recommend you stopping by to see this installation for the festival. Over the weekend you can go along to see the moon from 12pm until 10pm. The moon is staying a little longer then the festival, FreedomKj1964 informs me it’s the 15th September.

The Freedom Festival is on now until late Sunday 2nd September. This is our third year of attendance and our first year planning out what we go to see rather than walking around and bumping into everything.

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The Print Shop

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Today we went along to The Print Shop in Hull City Centre, a part of the Freedom Festival which begins on Thursday 30th August.

More about the print shop:

 

PRINT YOUR SLOGAN T-SHIRT

RISE (up) and express yourself at Freedom Festival 2018 with your own personally designed slogan t-shirt created at ‘The Print Shop’ in Whitefriargate

Opening on the 25 August – 2 September

Ahead of Freedom Festival 2018 and in readiness for presenting RISE! we are launching a temporary pop up art studio, The Print Shop, to encourage a collective expression of Freedom.

The Print Shop is equipped with print technology, placards, banners, t-shirts and all sorts of crafty and creative materials providing you with a fully accessible expression centre to develop your voice and make it heard.

 

Taken from Freedom Festivals website, find out more here.

Here’s inside The Print Shop and other people’s slogans. The gentleman who helped us was very friendly and walked us through everything we needed to do. We spent quite a lot of time finding our slogan and started with words that meant a lot to us. I will explain our slogans below, in the order we are photographed.

Rob (AKA Daddy): ‘HOPELESS‘ Rob has reminded me of one of his favourite quotes in the years I have known him ‘Even the word hopeless has the word hope in it’. It really does make a difference to our thinking and its an important one to share, you may not see very well on his shirt but LESS is set in red.

Riley: ‘HELP PEOPLE OUT’ Last year Riley was a school councillor at his primary school and he took his role very seriously, his school also introduced the school buddy system and they are other pupils that help others out in times of need. Riley’s slogan has come from this thought process and he is proud to wear his shirt.

Sophie: ‘CLEAN WORLD FOR ALL’ Sophie is very passionate about the world she lives in and has certainly learnt a lot through her achievement of Senior Wilderness Explorer. It started with recycling, animals, environment and resulted in her four worded slogan.

Jenny/me (AKA Mummy): ‘TOGETHER WE ARE LOUDER’ I have cheated a little as I had formed this slogan a month or so ago with the help of my street team and linking to what I do with my work. Together we are louder meaning one voice can be heard but a group of people saying the same thing will be listened to and potentially resulting in actioning the message.

Robyn: LOVE/CHANGE Believe it or not, this came from the words Frozen and Pink. It formed into ‘Change is possible with love’ but this was a bit long for a small shirt and with the volunteers help we formed the two words. If you think of the Disney movie Frozen its quite a message that has come from a movie.

The next step was to hunt for the letters in the tubs and put our shirts together to go to print. The children found this very exciting and couldn’t wait to put them on and show off.

They even got to peel the paper, to reveal their final piece of work.

This is a free activity but I believe they accept donations.

We will be wearing our shirts around the Freedom Festival this year, to be a part of the art. The main time to wear these is for the Rise Up Friday night event and we can’t wait to read everyone else’s shirts and be a part of the community in a visual way.

What will your slogan be?

A walk across the Humber Bridge

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A bit of a different post today because we didn’t Geocache this weekend! We went on a walk over the Humber Bridge which is just down the road from us.

The walk was actually a part of Christian Aid. I used to do the walk when I was younger so I was delighted to reminisce and complete it again but with my own children (and husband of course).

The idea is to gain sponsorship for each crossing you complete, each side is a station in which you get your card stamped. I wasn’t expecting anymore than 2 (there and back) with the three kids.

With Robyn on her walking bike we knew this could take us some time! In fact Robyn insisted on completing 3/4 of the way on the first crossing to bike it at snail speed. How she enjoyed it and how everyone went on ahead. Robyn was determined.

This is on the other side of the Humber Bridge and with some of our Church family from Tower Hill Methodist Church.

It took us 2 hours to complete the 4 mile walk and the children enjoyed themselves.

There is a virtual cache on the Humber Bridge by the way.

Here are the children upon completion.

Now collecting sponsorship for the two crossings. Get in touch if you want to sponsor Sophie, Riley and Robyn. Up to the 19th May 2018.

Jennifer and Co

Ps the cover photo of the blog is from around four years ago.

Spring is here and that means…

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That’s right! We are certainly back in the game now.

This weekend was the best weekend we have had in a long time and that’s because we spent three days Geocaching.

On Friday, Rob and I went to do a few caches that were odd ones out on our map. Usually ones we didn’t reach with the kids on a day Geocaching because they are just a little further out. We found 4/5 caches and it was so nice to spend some quality time together doing what we love.

These photos are from one of the caches we found which was just at the side from a busy road in Hull. We have been past it so many times and had never noticed this old train station and it’s platform.

Isn’t it just beautiful?

This is cache- Permanently Sidetracked GC6KZ76

We would have never of seen this if it wasn’t for Geocaching.

I have to admit we had missed this so much. After having my slipped disc it has impacted our family so much. I am still quite in pain with it and on high painkillers but we are doing shorter walks for an hour rather then the all day 8 mile hunt. It has put the gage back up on everyone’s happiness levels, you would be surprised at how much.

We both had a well earned coffee at the end of our caching morning whilst the kids were at school.

Have a great week.

Jennifer

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