Autumns View

Gardens View
From Shauns window

 

Sky View

I think these clouds looks like a crab

 

Work and play

Play and Work 

 

I've finished Pepper Pig apart from her cheeks and I can't do them at the moment because I have run out of dark pink embroidery thread.

This rag rug is for the ME Craft Group.

I've brought it away with me so I can get some of the dull beige bits done.

The group seem to have lost interest in it and I'm hoping getting the beige outline in will give them an incentive to carry on the coloured bits.

Just need to outline the edge of the rug now.

 

Work

I brought some blueberry bushes and raspberry canes for Shaun and Fiona. (Fiona loves fruit but Shaun is not so keen.

I wasn't sure where to plant them so decided to put them in pots in the yard for the time being.

First the yard needed tidying up

The soil that had accumulated needed riddling and putting back on the beds

 Now the yard is tidy enough to put the pots on

 The blueberry bushes

 and the raspberry canes

When we were clearing this area we found lots more yard to clear

That is a job for another day.

 

What are you doing this week?

Kathie has asked us to get photos of what we are doing during the week
I've had trouble downloading the pictures so I couldn't post until today.
 

Outside
 



 collecting walnuts

 Inside
Fruit crumbles waiting to go in the oven
Plums, apples and pears
The plums are from the trees in the garden

 

Sunday Pictures

I don't have these paintings but I thought I would show you two of the ones I would love.

 

This is by Julie Dunbarton a Scottish Artist

 

 This is by Bridget Wilkinson an artist from Whitby

 

So far I have bought a calendar by Julie and intend to get one of Bridgets. That is all I can afford

 



Picture this

Over here in France I've not been feeling great and haven't done any ornament type picture but I have taken a few of what Roland, Shaun and Fiona have been up to and of what I have been doing.

 Clearing the undergrowth

 Painting Shutters

 Grooming horses

Felling Trees

 

Knitting George and Pepper Pig

 

Liquid refreshments

We left home for France on Tuesday, stopped at Ashborne overnight then caught the euro train for Calaison Wednesday. Wednesday evening we stayed in Orlean for the night and arrived at Shauns place late Thursday afternoon. I slept all day Friday and this morning and still feel tired The crafting weekend and the travelling have caught up on me.
I haven't had much time to put a great deal of thought into liquid refreshments but this is what I have found.

Cups of cuddle

 The last of Rolands Hot Chocolate

 My Latte

 )Refreshing on a hot day

While waiting for our meal

 Snack with our drinks

Food

I've had a really busy week as I had a scrapbooking weekend at the end of it and had to get ready for our month in France starting on Tuesday.

The weekend was brilliant. It was lovely to meet cyber friends in the flesh and it got my scrapping mojo working again.

I had a wonderful surprise while I was there. One of the ladies was keeping up to date with the news on her mobile phone. She was reading out something about a hostage  from Libya and my ears pricked up. She said the name David Bolam and my heart sank as he is my brother in law. I thought she was going to say he had been beheaded but you can not imagine how I felt when Ally said he had been released. He has been a hostage for about 8 months and we couldn't say a word. My sister has literally been ill with worry so I can't imagine how she is now, I think they are both going to need a great deal of healing. I have no idea how they are as I haven't tried to phone knowing that they will be avoiding the press. I just have to wait until she is ready to phone me.  

 

After that my week of food seems a bit mundane.
Secret snacks

 Naughty but Nice
Some Brownies I made

 Lunch
It was set up in the room next to our craft room so we could get our lunch easily.
The place was full of other groups

 Healthy Options?
Brownies the hotel made perhaps I could say the strawberries are the healthy option.

 Evening Meal
Cod and chips

Healthy Options?

Breakfast