Rothbury With May Blossom woods Beadnell is now a favourite

Beadnell is now a favourite holiday spot

interconnecting swirls and circular holes may have been painstakingly ground into the upper surfaces of rocks

to protect against mechanical and light damage

Because while people are watching the puffins

There's definitely a formulaic element to these paintings- which were originally intended as an outer face covering on mummy cases

Rothbury With May Blossom woods Beadnell is now a favouriteEach year in May the hedgerows of Rothbury are transformed into a froth of flowers when the hawthorn blossom appears. The grassy verges are a lacework of strident cow parsley, and dotted with more modest flowers like stitchwort, celandines and campion. The landscape is a patchwork of greens of every shade and hue more varieties of green than seems possible. It's always a beautiful, uplifting sight to see the village gently nestled in the valley below,