Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

A week away - part one




This is the first proper holiday we've had in a long time, we normally do day trips or the ocassional overnight stay in a hotel. We were rather excited! 
Our accommodation for the week was a converted stable in Musbury, which isn't far from Seaton in Devon.



On our first night we found refreshments in the Lion Hotel in Lyme Regis




Monday was peeing down with rain but we'd done a little research and found out an auction would be on when we were visiting. Lyme Bay auctions, hold one a month and have two auctions running simultaneously on two floors.  I have to say this was very dangerous and I wish we'd had a van.  I had to leave so many bargains behind!













The sun finally shone and the wind was blowing when we revisited Lyme Regis on Tuesday. A little retail therapy in Seasalt and a relax on the beach was just what the doctor ordered. We found this abandoned Sandcastle which I thought was worthy of a photo. 


Wednesday we found ourselves in Weymouth.


I love "Flying Horses" these were on the seafront in a bandstand style seating area and couldn't resist a photo.


We took a trip to Exeter's Historic Quay Side on Thursday, and once we'd finally negotiated the traffic and fairly confusing road system, we could finally relax and enjoy the craft shops , glass blower, iron monger and antique centres. 

With plenty of choice of places to eat, it was worth a visit. The more adventurous could hire bikes and kayaks, we just bought an ice-cream! 




Our adventures as always, were peppered with little pit stops!

Sunday, 21 April 2013

Car Booty Sunday

What do you do when you wake up early and the sky looks like this?


Well, if your me you go car booting!


I love this Tonka Winnebago and you can just see a 70's Kenwood just popping it's head into view!


you can buy all manor of things…a new house perhaps, compact with original features needs modernisation?



Nice crockery and bric-a-brac 



the loveliness in the picture above was above my price range…
more shop retail prices than Sunday car booter ;(


These are my buys!



Inspired by Ada at Vintage sheet addict!



Yummy plates for yummy treats


baubles and angel for the tree






is it ever too early for Christmas decorations??


No! thought not, fingers crossed the lights work! 

What did you get up too?

Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Easter

Hope you all had a Happy Easter even though it was a chilly one!


i've updated my tree with feather birdies from Tiger (brilliant Shop) and I made the eggs from a pattern in Making and made a few more poms! 

My Easter started Wednesday as I don't work Thursdays. One of my work colleagues retires this month and took us all out for dinner, about twenty of us! I'm third from left


I baked Banana bread


I knitted egg cosies for my Niece and Nephew (these were the free pattern from a daily newspaper
I cheated a little on the design) They're keeping Kinder eggs warm


We watched ITV3 and enjoyed the old films. I did some knitting to those too


My tree is now an Easter Tree in now in the front room,
you may remember this tree for here and here!


Notice my little owl, I knitted this over Easter, if you look closely, you can see the pattern in the previous picture! Its from a Christmas knit book I mentioned before, here he is close up


Isn't he Tweet!

ps I've been very good and only chomped two Cream Eggs (honest)


Sunday, 17 February 2013

SUNday

Not much has happened today, we've visited family, eaten the lunch I prepared yesterday and watched some catch up telly while making pompoms* (more on that soon!).  We've done this with the house bathed in beautiful spring sunlight. Now while I sit typing this, the solar lights are shining nice and bright. They've been blinking on and off over the last few weeks, but this weekend they're really looking good.

Spring is just round the corner (can't wait!).




Sunday, 20 January 2013

Snowy Sunday




A lie in with breakfast in bed, coal fire warming the house as the snow falls outside and a little crafty love to ease my cold. Looks like Peter got the right idea too x