My mum and I celebrate our birthdays three days apart, and in 2013 we gifted ourselves a wee road trip to the England’s north east.
Antony Gormley’s Angel had been on my must-see list since it was first installed, and close up it is so impressive.
I’m not sure when (if) my mum and I will have another road trip, so this is a memory to cherish.
Zimmerbitch 
😢🤗
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Such a surprise to open your post, all the way from New Zealand, and find my almost-next-door-neighbour featured! So glad you saw more of England than just sticking with London. Great memories!
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I’m envious!
I lived in England for a decade, and managed to see quite a lot of Britain, though until that trip with my mum, Newcastle was somewhere I’d only gone through on a train heading for Scotland.
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That train journey to Scotland is one of my all-time favourite journeys. I didn’t know you had an English Period, though it seems to be a rite of passage for many New Zealanders.
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I was born in Scotland and raised in NZ, so my UK sojourn was partly about reconnecting with my Scottish roots. For my partner is was more the classic OE.
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I really hope you get over here again and I’m sure your mum does! That angel is certainly BIG! I have a feeling there is a smaller version in Canberra.
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Ooh! I’ll have to ask Tracy.
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Is she from Canberra?
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I think so: ACT anyway
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A wonderful memory and photo!
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Thank you
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How cool. I didn’t even know about this!
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Many years ago my grandmother and I took a short road trip. I took her to a drive in movie. She had her first hamburger with me. It’s a trip I will always cherish.
Leslie xoxo
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That’s so lovely. I remember taking my grandmother out to dinner and flirting with the very young waiter. She was about 80 at the time.
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My Nan was about 80 when we went too…
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Precious memories!!!
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I know – we visited it several times ‘en passant’ when we drove through that area – it’s hugely inspiring and quite incredible from nearby…. Same as you, I don’t know when we can visit the UK again, we booked (for the first time since our stay there) two full weeks in November last year for June 2020 – all cancelled, all lost and now EVERYBODY driving through France to enter England has to go for 2 weeks in quarantine….
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That’s impressive! My husband and I have birthdays exactly two weeks apart and got married on my half birthday. That way at least one of us remembers the day. 🙂 My brother and one of my husband’s sisters share a birthday, so several birthday coincidences/oddities in our merged families.
janet
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My family is full of birthday/anniversary clusters. Three of my mother’s four children were born on the 23rd of a month; practically every day in September we have at least one birthday to celebrate; my parents and in-laws shared a wedding anniversary date – which is also two days after one of my brother’s birthdays and two days before the boy-child’s, and my niece and nephew (siblings) were born on the same date two years apart. It does make for some big celebrations!
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Even more amazing than our coincidences, Su. 🙂
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I guess if you have a large enough family, these things are bound to happen.
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I passed this so many times before finally stopping off to see it. It really is splendid.
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Agreed.
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Having caught the people below helps show the scale of this. I haven’t been, but would like to. I hope you and your mum will manage another road trip before too long and am sending you good luck wishes. I used to see road trips as an endurance test but the next one will be a treat. 🙂
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Still so impressed by this statue! Don’t give up hope – there will be more road trips for you and your mum! ❤
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