Home again

Second attempt

We have now been home from France  a week so this is long overdue , 

Instead of thinking about it and procrastinating why not just get on with it ( memo to self)

So without further a due here we are 

The sun finally showed itself and decided to stay ,and what a difference it made to everyone and everywhere 

Can I try some before and after photos .?

Before the sun 

With the sun 

Maybe they don,t look much different but it felt a whole lot brighter 

The next to last photo is of friends and we were taking a last walk on the beach

We also visited the closest town to us , Troyes , again in the rain then with the sun out 

What a difference to the square , it came alive with people sat outside having their lunch , the indoor market was full of wonderfully food , the chocolate stall holder had spent a while in England in skipton , where the yarn dale festival is being held in September , who,s going ?

The French bar , was a delight just off the shopping centre 

All too soon we had to journey home and I was hoping to make the best of the tunnel back

Not as scary as it was coming out , I busied myself taking photos 

Our garden before and after 

My favourite holiday photo

On the craft front , I,ve got a surprise to share with you , all will be revealed soon , 

Meanwhile I had a sudden urge to make a biscornu 

The pattern was from weewitchy , thanks for making it available 

 

Going to publish this now , so apologies for any typos

My first attempt, I saved then tried to edit , not good 

Rain in France

Onward to our next destination and the rain

Travelling down on a great sunny day but then the rain came 

What else to do except take some photos 

And what is this strange object in the sky , is it here for good?

Hello from France

We have moved down to our next destination , le lac d,orient , this has free wifi , so I,m taking advantage 

The sun has finally decided to show itself , I think the same can be said for home

We travelled over on the tunnel , mixed feelings , yes it's quick only 30 mins but I found it rather claustrophobic , I,ll see how I feel on our return journey

We have been to visit Le Blockhaus d,Eperlecques , close to where we are staying ,what an experience, it's where the Germans planned to launch the v2 rockets but the English succeeded in bombing it before they could begin , 

These are the photos I took , 

The pictures don,t do the place and size of the memorial justice , it was very eerie walking around inside ,knowing what it had been built to do, 

Hopefully another post from France soon

Early may post

I may not get a chance to do another post for end of may, did I tell you we are off to France on Thursday for two weeks , who knows how the wifi will be there or will I be too busy drinking wine ? 

I did a craft fair on Saturday , a first for me , so all my time the last three weeks or so, has been taken up with crochet, apologies for not commenting on posts or not being available on FB , thanks to everyone for their good luck wishes , I really appreciated everyone's encouragement,

There were about 15 tables all with various crafts on display , fortunately no other crochet, plenty of knitting though and a new craft  I took an interest in , needle felting , anyone does this ?

Not much footfall ,but as it was the first maybe not many people knew about it, thanks to family and friends I did take a bit of money , so it wasn't,t a total failure, I didn't.t sell any charms or flower brooches or even flower hair bobbles so that was a bit disappointing , 

I am glad it's over with now and I can get back into the land of the living , they are hoping to do another one in October and I,ll be more prepared this time , 

Apologies for the display photos , looking at them , I know I could have displayed them better

I,ve also taken some photos or our ( untidy ) garden , I just know when we get home from France all the flowers will have been out and might even have faded , so I,ll do an after photo and show what difference nearly three weeks make 

With any luck I,ll be able to do a post from France so see you from across the pond , or see you in three weeks time

Oops I see I,ve put the same photo in twice , and don,t know how to delete it ,sorry

At least I,ve post to the right blog this time fingers crossed 

april nearly gone

My blogger friend Lucy says where has the week gone ,I say where has the month gone

Still persevering with the iPad for posting but I will have to buy an app where you can post pictures where you want and not just at the end of this post ,and hopefully do some linking up , which I can't do at the moment

23 rd April was world book night and fortunately I was again chosen to be a giver, my chosen book was The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry , not one I,ve read before , I am taking part in a 50 book challenge created by Steph at  show and tell  ,so we are all doing a read along , starting on Friday ,just in time to enjoy some relaxation for the bank holiday .

I,m also considering doing a craft fair next month, it's only £6 for a table which I don,t think is too bad , not too much money to waste if you don't sell anything , so I am crocheting like mad , I,ll take photos of all my finished products for next month,s post.

Oh just remembered ,I won,t be here at the end of May, we,ll be in France ,yeah , so hopefully I,ll get a post in early or late ,

There,s been some brilliant sunsets the last few days , I knew I shouldn't, have done ,but I wanted to share a photo , not a very good one I,m afraid taken with the iPad , maybe I should have used my trusty phone but that would have meant bluetoothing it to my laptop etc etc , taking up valuable crochet time


See you in May

 

 

well I,ve had to resort to my laptop, I foolishly published this post on the 50 book challenge blog

although I was going to leave it as it was  and Steph (thanks ) kindly offered to try and change it for me , I thought I would give it a go and wonders it worked , so much for using my ipad

 

I,ve just realised also I showed the photo of my books in my last post , oh well, just in case you missed it the first time

 

I.ve just been looking at my photos on my phone and came across these two, so it would have been rude of me not to show them , I decided to do another tea swap with Lucy and these are what I sent her, along with a book The Kashmir Shawl by rosie Thomas

I soon had a reply back from Lucy to say Thankyou and how much she had enjoyed the tea

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally here's our new caravan which we are going to France in

 

 

 

Now I'm off to delete this post from the 50 book challenge blog "sigh"

 

World book day

Just collected my 20 books to celebrate World Book Day on 23rd April

Just arrived

My latest buy from amazon , half price compared to w.h.smiths

Mid April post

This post is overdue as Easter was two weeks ago.
I thought , instead of continually swapping between iPad, mobile and laptop, I,d give it a go just solely on my iPad,  cross fingers and see what happens ,


For Easter I received a lovely surprise and completely unexpected parcel from steph
Although I have mentioned it in my last post , no photos were taken , shame on me ,
Also steph kindly sent me a pattern to test out and I was overjoyed to be doing this

Okay I might be getting somewhere, I,ve been trying for last 15 mins to get some pictures up , now lets see

This is the card and knitted bunny which arrived in the post, the chocolate didn't,t last long enough for a photo


The next is Helena , a beautiful crocheted geisha girl again from steph's shop , the original pattern is from esshaych whom got me on this blogging and crocheting lark ,

The next photo is of a baby girls blanket which I was asked to make , I don,t know how we'll it has been received , but it was so simple and relaxing to do

The final photo is ,,, da dah ,,, drum roll please , Faery hedgepig. Making his debut appearance on here , a lovely pattern , again from steph at show and tell

I can,t figure out how to link up on here and I don,t know in which order the photos will appear , but here goes , I,m pressing the publish button and I,m determined not to resort to my laptop to edit this