Showing posts with label Nottinghamshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nottinghamshire. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 September 2025

Apologies for not being here

 Hi, After my last post things got a little hectic , I'm currently chilling out on a campsite in Melrose ( more about that soon ) We have been busy both at home and away in the van.

Last month I took a trip to Newark, hopped on a train ( I love travelling by train, inherited this from my Father who was a big steam enthusiast )


It was a beautiful summers day and I spent my time walking round, doing a little shopping ( cheese ! ) and taking photos of anything that caught my eye,




The old signal box, the castle and the busy market ( I love a good market)







Beautiful black and white buildings ( yes, I know that this has been a theme this year )


I even popped into a Witches Market and admired the tarot cards, the dancing and the glass window of the host building, Newark Palace Theatre built in 1920




There was just enough time for a stroll along the river then back on the train home.











 


Monday, 1 March 2021

Is it spring yet?

 The sun is shinning!! I've even had washing on the line over the  last few days. Its due to get a bit colder again this week but the last week really lifted my spirits :-)

My knitting, spinning mojo is still largely missing but I'm slowly stitching on my two main projects, The small Quaker sampler and the experiment.


The Quaker is coming along nicely and I will definitely stitch another simply because I like the regularity of the designs.


AS for the experiment, I'm about 3500 stitches in so far and its sort of beginning to take shape. I'm reluctant to reveal what it is at the moment, I'd rather wait and see if it gets more obvious.


Today I have a sore arm, the result of having the covid vaccine yesterday ( I fall into the clinically venerable group) but hopefully that will be the only discomfort.


We have made a few more plans for roadtrips later in the year and we still have festival tickets from an event that was cancelled last year so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for getting out and about even if still socially distanced by being in the van .


Also, thinking ahead about this blog, I'm considering doing a series of posts relating to the area I live in  once the stay at home order is lifted and travelling by public transport is permitted. It's just an idea in the back of my mind at the moment but there are a lot interesting places within this county to visit and photograph and it would give me the opportunity to revisit many of them. It would be a separate post to my weekly crafty type update, probably a couple of posts a month. 

Would anyone be interested in this? BTW the county in question is Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands, UK. 

Please let me know, thanks.

Take care, speak soon xx