Good weekend - great weather (too hot in fact), Saturday we went up to Rothbury Festival and spent the afternoon in a nice little session in the Turk's Head. Sunday morning we went to the Baltic to see the Gormley exhibition which is really rather good, tehre is also a superb exhibition of photographs of the North east "coal coast" by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. While we there we wandered out on to the observation dexk and lo and behold the Millenium bridge and Swing bridge opened to let a ship through - first time I have seeen this happen. Wonderful.