Hello there, and welcome back to this week’s #PoCoLo - a friendly linky which I co-host with Suzanne, where you can link any blog post published in the last week, posts which are older will be removed from the linky. We know you’ll find some great posts to read, and maybe some new-to-you blogs too, so do pop over and visit some of the posts linked, comment and share some of that love. If you were here last week it was great to have you along, if you’re new here this week we’re pleased you’ve joined us.
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This week we’ve been out and about to Nottingham which is about 17 miles from us. Back in December 2022, when moving was on the cards but nowhere near confirmed, we booked tickets to see Echo & The Bunnymen for their concert, to play their album Ocean Rain, with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Our thinking back then was if we hadn’t moved then we could book a trip just for the concert, and if we had moved then we hoped we wouldn’t be too far away.
We had nothing to lose!
As it turned out we weren’t too far away, though there was a fair bit of traffic on a rainy Tuesday getting into Nottingham and it took me about three circuits of the one way system, including a lap of a car park we hadn’t booked, to find the car park that we’d booked parking in. So that was fun!
The venue was great, as was the concert. I loved the addition of the orchestra, which is a good thing as we’re also booked to see a similar treatment of ABC’s Lexicon of Love next spring. Thankfully getting home was much easier, no doubt partly due to my earlier unplanned orientation session, and of course because of less traffic. We were out of the venue and home within forty minutes, which was fab.
