Pretty little flowers

This was my favourite photo of all the cathedral photos I took. It's a little blurry, but it shows the lovely purple and white flowers that were all over the lawn in front of the cathedral.I tried my hardest to not step on any, and get a close enough shot to show them at grass level, but this was as close as I could get!

A cathedral in the centre of all the shopping

I do love cathedrals, and haven't been able to take some good photos of them for a while, so I was excited to discover that there is a (quite little) cathedral right in the centre of the shopping bit in Manchester. I loved that the sky was nice and blue and I could show the stone off in it's lovely colour! There were even choirboys singing too! Manchester was bombed quite a lot, and so it has an interesting combination of old and new buildings, as well as a lot of industrial buildings, so it was nice to see something pretty! In terms of a cathedral, it's not very big, but it had a lovely little garden in front with white and purple snowdrops and little flowers. It seemed a great place to sit for a while and relax after a day's shopping!

Census Bus

Right in the centre of the shopping area was this giant purple double decker bus. It was there to remind you about the National Census, which is done this year. There are quite a few billboards with the purples buses on them around Bristol. I hadn't really heard tons about it yet, but the purple bus certainly reminded me about it!

Sackville Gardens, Manchester

On Saturday, I took the train up (very early) to go to the UKSEDS conference, which was being held in Manchester. The conference itself wasn't terribly great, so Nadeem and I went out exploring instead. On our walk, the first place we encountered were these Gardens, which were in a lovely square with pretty little flowers!

Cupcakes and candles

Back when I went home one weekend, we had Becky (Shelby's friend from school) and her family round for tea. It had been Becky's birthday so we got these awesome cupcakes from this little bakery in Telford to have instead of cake! I love the detail and how perfect they look!

The Natural History Museum

I had to leave Mark at the Natural History Museum, but not before I snapped some photos of the beautiful building. It is such an impressive place, and just massive. I usually spend ages in the Science Museum, and don't get to spend a long time in the Natural History Museum, but they have lots of animals, insects, and a giant dinosaur in the front hallway!

Admiralty Arch

On the other side of this arch is Trafalgar square. I usually only see this arch from a taxi, because you can drive down the centre of the Mall and see it. It really is impressive, and has HUGE gates. Maybe I should take a taxi down there just for fun? Probably an expensive jaunt, but it is an impressive structure!