Hi folks - I can't imagine where the last six months have got to?
So true that time flies - almost the end of another year. Hope you have had a lovely Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year.
Today it has been very wet and windy so I haven't been very far at all with Bess, just half an hour as it was so cold and a piercing east wind brrrrr.
 This afternoon I finished a bit of knitting with pure wool and it is in the washer now hopefully being felted - then I will cut a circle from it to be edged with fine crochet.
At the moment I am having a very early glass of wine- it's 4pm!! (well it is Christmastide !)  and watching "Bleak House" on DVD - must check who the casting director was as they got every character spot on. Charles Dance and Gillian Anderson in particular were superb in their roles.
Feet up now with various cats and Bessie Womble the dog snoozing in front of the fire.
Bliss
Take care in everything you do
Angela x

my Christmas mantle decoration - not very glitzy -  it was quick to do and looks natural
Do you like it?

Flaming June - well it has been very warm and pleasant at times. Perfect for the farmers who managed a first cut then we had a cooler week with some rain to make it grow all again for a second mowing in August.
I do like to see the tractors busy and loads of hay going down the lanes.
Me and Little Bess had a different walk back today and I came upon this

a little home-made plant stall. How sweet and there were all sorts of lovely and unusual plants. And only 50 pence each.
There were hollyhocks, purple woodruff, love-in-a-mist, borage, sunflowers and cucumber plants. A few more I can't just recall - as I didn't have any money with me I will pop back down today in my little mini and indulge myself - I don't reeeally need anymore plants but at that price who could refuse? 
There is a note saying to please put your money in the box hung up on the right. How quaint and old-fashioned but lovely to see people still use £honesty boxes".
This is the cottage door...

and this is the lane it is on ...

which leads us under the railway viaduct before we get onto the canal towpath...

Bess and her stick  - she never tires of sticks,

This aquaduct over the Leeds to Liverpool canal is known as "Periwinkle Bridge" due to it's amazing design.
Bye for now, enjoy the fine weather,
Angela xx

Tree People

a sad and tortured face here - can you see it?

A gargoyle or even Sssssid the snake ?
Out and about with Little Bess, and these two dissimilar faces said hello as I passed.
 The month of May is so very special and varies so much from year to year. On record it has been the coldest and latest spring for 30 years, I believe this but cannot even recall anything from 1983 so do these things matter to Mother Nature? No - she just gets on with it no matter how we human beings count and measure.
To quote one of my favourite poets e.e.cummings - "he answereth only with Spring"

This face makes me smile - it is a hammerhead shark of sorts - or do you know the Picasso style modernist cats by Rosina Wachmeister?  take a look you'll see what I mean
Take care and enjoy the very last days of the merry month
Angela   xx