Yorkshire Sculpture Park

[nanila]

Last week we went up to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for an outdoor playdate with the bloke's sister and the cousins. As with every trip to Leeds, we had prepared ourselves for a frigid trudge through the rain and wolfing down sandwiches in whatever poor shelter we could find under some trees. We were pleasantly surprised to have both sunshine and warmth, and ended up going for a 6 mile walk up into the surrounding forest.



As it was our first lengthy car journey for some months, I decided it was time to introduce Keiki and Humuhumu to Cabin Pressure. We listened to the first two episodes on the way up. They were instant fans. Keiki relates to Caroline, and Humuhumu to Douglas. If this is the model for their future sibling relations, I expect to be very entertained over the next few years.

Keiki: "If anyone is Sir, *I* am Sir!"
Humuhumu, drily: "Pass the tomato sauce, oh Sir of Sirs."



Find the Humuhumu and the Nanila in the mirrors.










Butt!








You could see this as a collection of sticks, or like Keiki, you could see it as a flamethrower, a light saber, an Amban sniper rifle, and a mace.


I must have a thousand photos of my daughter that are like this.


Damien Hirt's peeled woman


Sticks + water == happiness




Never mind the sculptures, we have a tree stump!


Damien Hirst's peeled unicorn.






David Nash's 78 Steps. No prizes for guessing who got to the top first.


















Is it a Damien Hirst or is a sheep bath?









The children maintain that the best way to view a giant ice cream sculpture is whilst eating an ice cream.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I remember the little girl collecting boxes when they were still a thing.

Remind your daughter that 'sir' can be spelled c u r............. :o)

[nanila]

Haha, she'll like that. She'll probably use it on his next birthday card, given what her last one to me was like (a drawing of me looking perturbed, with the caption "Your pants are out").

[caulkhead]

I cannot help but wonder where this puts you and Bloke.

[pbristow]

Hee! Which one's Martin, which one's Arthur? Will Keiki meet his Herc? ... =:o}

Definitely raising them right!

[nanila]

I feel pretty confident in saying that in this household, I'm Arthur. The bloke is far more Herc than Martin!

[nanila]

He's definitely not Arthur. The only person in this house who can muster that kind of joyously naive optimism is me. :P

[kotturinn]

That looks like a great place for adventuring.
And if course those are not just a collection of sticks! We've got some mighty sticks in front gardens here - most retrieved from the Hall grounds.

[nanila]

It's an amazing place. Huge, too.
Our stick collection is carefully curated by both children. There are some whoppers from the woods about a mile and a half down the towpath.

[rmc28]

Wow, that place looks amazing. I've just found its location, which is roughly equidistant between 2 or even 3 sets of relatives in Yorkshire, so we might have to find a way to go at some point this summer.

[nanila]

Definitely recommend it for this! When the weather's fine, there are many places to picnic outside, and it's very good for tiring out small balls of energy.

[hamsterwoman]

This looks like a great outing, and I loved the mirror mask sculpture!

Keiki's collection of sticks takes me back... We still have somewhere in the garage several extremely vital sticks O had found on holidays in Europe and did not want to leave behind, so we had to figure out a way to fit them in the suitcase XD (a lot of his were lightsabers, and the fact that he had half a dozen actual toy lightsabers at home did not diminish their importance)

[silveradept]

It looks to have been a delightful day for everyone, but especially for children moving at full speed without stopping that much.

[jesse_the_k]

What a beautiful day and beautiful location and, luckily for us, fabulous pictures!