Antiques Roadshow is heading for New Lanark!!

Sunday nights for most of year in the UK on BBC 1 at 8pm means only one thing: the Antiques Roadshow. Of course they're already out & filming the NEXT series (which will probably start showing end of 2016) and they are once again venturing into Scotland for one of their days.

The Antiques Roadshow will be stopping off at New Lanark World Heritage Site on the 28th July 2016 between 9.30am - 4.30pm. What makes this more special is that this is the ONLY stop in Scotland for the current series that they are filming.

No tickets are required for the day but they do work with lots of queues (you've probably seen them if you're an avid viewer of the show) so if your thinking of attending then be prepared to waiting for a bit though they do try to get through the queues as quickly as possible. And of course, with it
being Scotland, be prepared for whatever the weather could throw at you. And don't worry, they'll be plenty of helpful stewards around to help you navigate the site too!

In fact, back in 2014, the BBC made a behind the scenes video at their filming in Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow: http://bbc.in/1bIslW7

So why not come along and see it in real life! It should be an interesting day out and a chance for you to maybe see if you have a wee fortune in something.

New Lanark has a dedicated page for the event which will be updated with regards to parking on the day and other arrangements. You can find it here: http://newlanark.org/visitorcentre/antiques-roadshow.shtml

And the BBC has a FAQs section here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4rtf8YKPv6XDbThQMSfWVjX/attending-antiques-roadshow

And another wee note is that the New Lanark will still be open for those not attending the roadshow, but do keep in mind the parking/travel on the day

Not all rosy in the Tesco flower garden....

Flowers have kind of became a staple present for Mother’s Day and I guess, in a way, it’s almost a fail safe option to go for. Well, I admit that I fell into purchasing this this year, but in a way, I wriggled out of it by having my mum pick her own flowers.

With it having been coming up to Mother’s Day, store up and down the country will have been flourishing in flowers and my local Tesco Extra was no exception. With prices starting (from what I could see) £3 for a wee bunch of colourful tulips to £20 for a Tesco Finest bouquet, there was, generally speaking, something for everyone’s pocket.

As I said, I wriggled out of the decision over what flowers to get for my mum by cheating; she picked them & I bought them. At least then, she’d get something that she liked although I’m pretty sure that she would have been happy with whatever she had gotten. She settled on a lovely £15 (later £10 thanks to a cheeky wee voucher from Tesco’s Orchard programme) bouquet named Strawberry Shortcake. I have to say that it was a very nice bouquet, nicer than what was in the Finest bouquet that I had spotted at £20. In fact, I did find myself asking myself whether or not what was being asked for in terms of price truly reflected what was being offered. I know that not all bunches of flowers are going to be exactly the same but even looking at the same named bouquets, some felt better presented & had better contents than others, yet, priced the same.

This isn’t the first time that we’ve bought flowers from Tesco of course. Normally, we only splash out on the cheap wee bunches at a couple of pounds each. But these seemed hidden by the number of larger bouquets that were being offered for Mother’s day. Or for a special occasion, head to an independent florist where you don’t mind spending a wee bit more. But like all commercial holidays (and to be honest, it’s what Mother’s Day is becoming along with everything else) prices always go up in places like Tesco for their flowers.

Was buying the flowers from Tesco worth it? Well, past experience has shown that normally we can get about a week out of them before they start dying off, but the bouquet that I purchased for Mothers Day started dying 4 days in.


In normal circumstances, there’s usually something for everyone’s pocket in Tesco’s flower range, and I guess in some instances, you get what you pay for.