Heather Tulip
@octotulip
Living in Cornwall. Avid reader - would spend my last £ on a book! Music is my first love, especially disco 🪩 Love walking & exploring NT properties & old churches 🙂 Work for the NT, all views expressed are my own
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCForCurves Portheras Cove, West Cornwall - a natural curve 😎
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCForCurves Stunning coal scuttle in the shape of an acorn at Blackwell Arts & Crafts house, Bowness-on-Windermere. Both useful & beautiful ❤️
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCForCurves Part of the beautifully restored Norman arcade in St Peter’s church, Allexton, Rutland.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCForCurves A curving foxglove in the King’s Garden, Godolphin, Cornwall 🙂
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBForBehind My late dog Merly showing a keen interest in sheep, at Combestone Tor, Dartmoor ❤️
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBForBehind A rear view of Verity by Damien Hirst. Ilfracombe, Devon.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBForBehind My friend Sal on the quay at Mevagissey, Cornwall on a chilly May evening 🙂
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBForBehind My friend Ali heading towards the Headland Hotel & Fistral Beach, Newquay 😎
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBForBehind Taking a snap of my friend Carol, who’s occupying the front seat in a double kayak, paddling towards Lerryn, Cornwall.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBForBehind My late dog Merly thinking about whether the ducks need herding or not!
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbandoned Abandoned dynamite factory buildings returning to nature at Kennall Vale, Ponsanooth, Cornwall.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbandoned Geevor Tin Mine, closed in the early 1990s & now a museum. The lockers still contain the miners’ belongings & give off a ‘just abandoned’ air.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbandoned Long abandoned buildings at Okel Tor Mine, Harewood, near Calstock, Cornwall
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbandoned A fixer-upper near Calstock, Cornwall. It was for sale the last time I walked past, so maybe no longer abandoned?
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbandoned My late dog Merly, trying his best to look abandoned & get the sympathy vote! In reality we were moving house & he was in his crate to stop him being trampled on 🙂
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbandoned Abandoned farm buildings at Old Kea near Truro ,Cornwall.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbandoned The ruins of Great Work Mine near Godolphin, Cornwall.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZForZany Some modern art could be described as zany! This is Harbour Window With Two Figures by Patrick Heron, on display at Tate St Ives 🙂
#AlphabetChallenge #Zany Leaning into the whimsical for this one, this place card at Melford Hall in Suffolk was hand-drawn by Beatrix Potter, who visited often 🙂
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZForZany An ornamental peacock in Oakham, Rutland 🙂
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZForZany An oversized advertising teapot at last year’s Royal Cornwall Show 🙂
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZForZany I love this wallpaper at St Austell Library. My favorites are the squirrel reading ‘How To Protect Your Nuts’ and the chipmunk with ‘Chip Happens’ 😂 Also #WallpaperWednesday
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZForZany An interesting grotesque on Ely Cathedral. I couldn’t tell whether it was a gargoyle or not, I guess the mouth may have held a water pipe at some stage?
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZForZany Tolgus the lamb. Redruth’s mascot, in the library dressed as a detective for their murder mystery evening back in April 🙂
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYonder The ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle, taken from the coast path near Craster, Northumberland.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYonder Taken from a train leaving Penzance station, you can just about make out St Michael’s Mount in the distance 😎
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYonder A lonesome tree at Dyrham Park near Bath
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYonder St Michael’s Tower, atop Glastonbury Tor, Somerset. Also #Thursgate
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYonder The River Tamar in the distance, near St Germans, Cornwall