Me on Monday

A double thank you to Sian as I wave today – first for suggesting the Monday wave and second for postcards

I received this today from Lizzy in Australia as part of the pile of postcards Valentine swap.  Lovely to receive a cheery card from the other side of the world.  I’ve posted my overseas cards and have the UK ones ready to post tomorrow.

It was a food market visiting; sun enjoying; beachside walking; rugby watching (only 1 of my 3 preferred teams won); crocheting and reading; snowdrops and crocus spotting in my garden; sending birthday greetings to my nephew in Mexico; kind of weekend.

Hope you all have a great week

January was

January was a typical month for reading – 5 books completed, 2 on my Kindle, and I thoroughly enjoyed all of them.  Having read some reviews of the third in the Divergent series I’ve decided to stop after 2 and imagine my own conclusion for the main characters.

I abandoned another book after a day when the only character I liked was killed off and I couldn’t remember which of the others were goodies and baddies.

January was productive crochet wise as I made 5 hat and scarflet sets for a local homeless charity.  all constructed from rectangles so easy to make while half watching the TV – especially shows that could really be radio like most news and lots of quiz shows.

January was a month of meeting old school friends who I haven’t seen for 30+ years and then chatting for hours about then and now and points in-between. Interesting how much our outlook and values still align, even on topics I’m sure we never discussed as teenagers.

January was a month of bought flowers and bulbs in pots as the garden remained green – but not white as we had only the smallest dustings of snow.

January was a month of wearing gloves and a hat and boots when I went out.  But not so cold that I didn’t want to go our for a daily walk – except on the 6 days when I had a heavy cold and lived on my sofa.

January was a month of fabulous low, golden light creating some wonderful views over the water, providing great shadows and reflections and providing plenty of camera opportunities.  This is one of my favourites – the glow of the sun caught on a flock of gulls being fed by the water

Pairs week 5 absorb the sun

I was in the city centre around 4.30 and noticed a lovely glowing sky to the west so walked up to a good vantage point to capture the outline of the castle and Church spires against the sunset.  Then I remembered some other pairs from previous weeks which had captured the reflected sun behind too so I turned to discover that the sandstone escarpment was glowing wonderfully in the rays of the setting sun.

Thank you all for joining in and providing great inspiration.

me on Monday

hello dear blog readers, hope this finds you well

I had a re-boot kind of weekend as I shook off the last of my cold that had kept me in a zombie state for most of the week. With the return of my brain it was a weekend of tidying and laundry and lists.

But my rebooted brain also wanted to create and play so there was also some time for pixel magic, playing with some photos of bare branches and water

and – sure sign I was well again – I had a yearning to crochet an amigurumi figure and given that I have been binging on Doctor Who (the David Tennant years) I searched for an appropriate pattern – part of the amigurumi thing is a geekiness and making characters from popular culture.  I wasn’t grabbed by patterns for a dalek or the TARDIS but this one had me reaching for my grey wool and crochet hook – I realise it will mean nothing to you if you are not a Doctor Who watcher (you can find the pattern here)

Hope you all find some time to play creatively this week.  Big thanks to Sian for prompting us to wave on Monday