half term

I cheated and had two weeks off. The some of the children I tutor had a residential week away. The time has flown by and I did not get half the stuff done I wanted too. I spent time playing silly games on the computer I expect. Despite that the jumper is ready to sew up


Christmas fairy needs a few more embellishments and is shopping for a wand.


I have finished stitching the Christmas ornament not photos it is secret!

John has had some time off this week so we went for an Autumn walk


it was part of the same walk as last year but a different route

The trees are beginning to turn


Biddle climbed a tree

for a better view

gardener Bunny found a fairy house

and worried this might be a shark


At the end of the walk we stopped to finish our coffee at a picnic table this little chap was too late to have a piece of roll


We walked in to Ilkley and had a look around the shops. There is a yarn shop but I am not convinced it also does some sort of creative classes and the yarn part customers seemed a bit neglected. It might be that both times I have visited it was half term and the staff were concentrating on the children there for the painting. So I did not loiter. I like to clearly see how much I am paying for a ball of yarn but the prices were displayed on a laminated sheet attached to the wall.

We did have coffee and scones later on though. (with cream) I bought two perfect buttons for the jumper in Duttons for Buttons.

We have a new washing machine


The old one lasted over 14 years but was on its last legs. The new one is cold fill only and is meant to be "green" we shall see. It is very quiet.

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a little post

I felt that I should be posted stuff every week and but my life is not full of exciting things like most people's. Each day is very like the one before. Three days I go to work two days and the weekend I don't. I don't have small children to regale tales about, the cat does the odd thing now and again, John goes to work and the allotment. This time of year some of my stitching and sewing is secret. However I have been busy. I am making a Christmas fairy. She has been hanging in the shower waiting for her boots to dry.

She has clothes
although her undies are inside out at the moment.
The pattern is this
I have a box of Christmas cat pieces waiting to be assembled


I am making a jumper for a little boy,


and I have a pair of fingerless mitts that need wristbands


We had three days of rain at the beginning of the week. Yesterday it brightened up considerably and I found this little chap under the birds' water dish. He curled up small when he sensed me but I managed to catch him later



The sun is shining again today and I have two weeks to sew

nothing much

is happening here. I think I have got bored with blogging

Allotment visit

John had a day off this week which he spent at the allotment. As it was beautiful weather I took lunch down and spent an hour or so in the fresh air. Of course Biddle and Gardiner Bunny came too.


It has been a very good full first year on the plot. We have had loads of beans


Somewhere in here courgettes are nestling


and here a cucumber


Have you eaten nasturtium flowers? They are quite peppery.

These are covering the path between beds.
The leeks are growing slowly


The bees have enjoyed the wild flowers.

A good growing year.