I feel so inspired after the last couple of weekends spent with friends in the countryside. We finally went for a weekend in Pickering near York for a 1940s weekend (a friends` parents are artists who live there and it has been talked about for quite some time) we stayed in a lodge,which was a cross between a caravan but much more spacious, but it somehow made it feel even more like a holiday! A country walk near Turton Tower and a visit to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, has filled me with country goodness……