You've heard of toilet humour, well did you know that you could get toilet sculpture? This is a recent addition and comes straight to Wakefield directly from Central Park in New York. Not my cup of tea, but amusing.
We went through the musical archway, into the twisty woodland.
Along the brick path,
and found a secret castle.
More sculptures along the way.I found this on you tube, but there are plenty more on there which should give you a good idea how to make the patterns, or inspiration for your own. You do have to use an espresso machine, and if you poured your espresso into a small glass, it would have a head on it - like a small Guiness. You pour your Espresso into the cup, then add your foamed milk like in the video. When it comes to the bit where you create your pattern, the secret is to get the spout of the jug near to the surface of the cup.
I shall expect to see some of your efforts in your blogs. I am now saving up for an espresso machine as you cannot achieve this with a cafetiere!! Good Luck!
What I find really poignant is that they were both born within 15 miles of the park. Both of them gravitated to the south of England later on in life, but their work feels very much at home, and is enormously appreciated back where their roots were. 
My friends attempt was very good.
It tasted good though. xxx
To do the parkland walk, you normally have to just pay for the car park (£3.50) but I get this included in my season ticket now.
The whole Estate dates back to the early 1700's and has stunning views as it is right on top of a hill - you can see the house from the M1 - its on the right hand side if you are heading south from Barnsley. I think that this used to be the main gate at one time - just wide enough for a horse and carriage.
They have spent a fortune repairing a lot of the features around the old estate - these had been left neglected and in a bad state for a very long time.
The Rotunda is getting a facelift - I hope that they open this once it is done. It contains a large room - where they used to entertain guests, and underneath there is a room where the servants would have prepared food.
There are lots of deer roaming around the park once more.
Further down, we came across column dedicated to the Duke of Argyll.
You can see why we are attracting more tourists to our region - just look at the colour of the sky!!!
On our walk round, I spotted several signs that indicate Spring has most certainly arrived. 
This fella - high in the sky actually felt warm on my face - I could have sat in it for ages.
I saw my first lambs of the year.
This looks lovely if you double click to enlarge it.
and finally - and the most exciting by far, (the young man could not believe how giddy this made me) FROGS SPAWN!!!!!!! This takes me right back to being 5 years old and having jars full of it on the back window ledge and on the nature table at school. 
All in all a fabulous Sunday walk. You would never think that this was Barnsley would you?
He was very dozy, and he took some budging!! We thought the driftwood was a safer place for him - I didn't want him to trap his leg in the door.
The young man and I were at a loss what to do today. After a full morning sat in A & E having his little finger looked at (after a suspected break playing Rugby at school yesterday - but its ligament damage ) I decided we would head up to Batley in West Yorkshire to visit the fabulous Redbrick Mill.
Its a fabulous place - a lovely old mill - fabulous building and some lovely stores inside. You can buy your Cath Kidston here, or visit Heals. It has 4 of the most gorgeous cafes, a lovely little deli, an art gallery, gift shops, a brilliant florist and the most stylish furniture ever! On Saturdays, they usually have a pianist or singer. Today, they had a wonderful young man singing jazz - I could have listened to him all day. I couldn't get many photos as I was "told off" by a very snooty lady who saw my camera, but I had just managed to take this photo of a very large lampshade!!
There are quite a few mill shops in Batley - its called the Yorkshire Mill Mile, and had I not had the whinging young man with me, I would have had a look round more of them - but Redbrick mill is my fave. Batley also has some spectacular Victorian architecture, but it was raining so hard I couldn't get out of the car - I shall just have to return another day!
Give it a go
The young man wanted to know who had built the hundreds of miles of dry stone walls? Good question!
On the way down to the Dale, we passed some great old farms.
We found some interesting articles to take home - you can see why I was the prime contributor to my infant school's nature table!!
The Dale itself is such an interesting place. It has a river running through it, but this disappears in places as there is another huge river underground too. There are lots of old Lead Mines too, and the water disappears through cracks in the rocks into these.
Everything is covered in layers of very thick moss.
The fascinating part of this area, is that although it is really high, at one time, this part of the world was on the sea bed. You can find fossils of sea shells etc embedded in the rocks. I think that takes some getting your head around.
There are signs up asking you not to paddle in the water, or let your dog swim in it as they are trying to preserve the native crayfish that are in here.
Some of the caves are pretty spectacular too. This one gushes water out after heavy rainfall.
It was a great walk and not too steep!
All in all a fabulous Sunday out.
