Caerleon Sculpture Festival

I’m afraid blogging is going to be sporadic for the next couple of months… the summer holidays are nearly upon us.  I have been busy going to end of year school concerts and meetings and assemblies… DS3 is going to high school in September so he has all sorts of farewell-to-old and welcome-to-new school events.  DS1 is sunning himself in Sorrento on a geography field trip – Vesuvius, Pompeii, Amalfi… in text messages, ‘awesome’ and ‘wicked’ crop up a lot!  Here in the UK it must be the wettest July for at least a couple of years and I am ready for a bit of sun and relaxation.  Some hope with the kids at home!  Anyway, DS3 went to a party yesterday and DH to an airshow so DS2 and I went to Caerleon for lunch and to visit the annual Sculpture Festival.

Caerleon is a village just outside Newport which used to house a substantial Roman legionary force. 

This is a mural painted in a little arts centre called The Fwrrwm.  There are lots of little arty shops and a nice cafe there where we had lunch.  There are also lots of quirky and diverse sculptures in the grounds.

I love this one carved from a tree trunk:

And there is a gorgeous tree hanging over it all:

The field of the sculpture festival was very muddy – not surprising since it had poured down nonstop the day before…. 

 and they had somehow got a crane in to lift one of the sculptures…

I didn’t note down the names of the sculptors but they were from all over the world – Bulgaria, Turkey, the Czech Republic, the USA – and all the way from England too!

I loved these chairs…

And this strange hand caught my eye…

At the end of the day we got the bus home and reorganised DS2′s bedroom so he could actually get into it!  A day well spent…  and I finished reading The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.