Dinosaur in the Hollies

At last! My quest is over, I have found the diplodocus in the Hollies in Leeds.

Actually my 5 year old daughter spotted it.

We used to visit the Hollies a lot when we lived in Leeds (Headingley, 10 years ago). It’s really nice and is like a cross between a botanical garden gone to seed and an old quarry. It’s very picturesque. A hillside site full of winding paths, rocks and streams.

This is our favourite spot in the park. We call it the LARP Stone because one time when we were sitting there a group of live action roleplayers emerged from the woods, skirmished a little amongst themselves and moved on. It’s a big rock, maybe the size of a car, and has a stream running past it with two wooden bridges to cross.

It’s carved on the top with a pattern and on the side with an eye.