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Short and Sweet

Well  long time no speak to blog land.
not much happening apart from I am doing a lot of new digi scrapbooking and ordinary scrap booking.  I did a session before Christmas at church and they all want another session doing, maybe do some cards  aswell as a scrapbook page.

Everyone who came did a page and none of them had ever done anything like it before.  But they all did well.  I am doing another very short taster session at a library in Sandwell in March and that is for complete beginners. 8x8 (inch) pages not 12x12 (inch) as I only have an hour.

But i have been asked to do some more sessions at another library soon so need to work on something to for that as well.

I enjoy doing scrapbooking, but when doing it with a lot of people, it can be draining, if you are doing it on your own; but also very fulfilling as well.

Anyway not much from me today.

Lots to do and lots to prepare.

Nite Nite to all of Blog land

Trips over the last 3 monhts

Hello Everyone

No blogging done over the last few months.  But now the weather is horrible I decided to look through the photos of the last few months.  After probably the worst start to a year me and the hubby have had, we were going to go away just for a night and that day my hubby lost his job so we could not afford or had the inclination to go.  After 5 months he got work and so we decided to go and get our life back on track.

So here are some of the photos from our weekend away.

The view from the farm road to Winwick in Northamptonshire

Very soon this may not be the view you see as there are plans to put up some wind turbines

When you get to the village there is a beautiful 13th century Church.  It has some very beautiful windows, it is a wonderfully quiet and peaceful place to be and collect your thoughts.

At the top of the village road there is a set of gates and they hide the entrance to Winwick Hall.

The gates are very large and impressive but beautifully made as well.

 This is what they are hiding, Winwick Hall.  I like this building as it is such a surprise to find this in the Village, which also has a Manor house as well.  I may need to find out some more information about both of them.

The gates are attached to a Crinkle Crankle wall, I have never found another wall like this anywhere.  Maybe you know better?

Here are me and Si after our walk and feeling very relaxed.

Now we just have to get Christmas finalised and then we can start next year on a high.

Hope you like my photos, please comment.

Digi Scrapbooking attempts

 Hello All
thought you would like to see some of my new layout from my Digi Scrap booking

This is my great uncle Bernard and his friend Tommy Randall.

Tommy was my mothers God father

 

This is my mother dad Jo.  If you can read the writing on the page you get 

lots of info about him from that.

 This is mom in Jerusalem in mid June .  She wanted to go and see this large menorah near the Israeli Parliament.  She finally got there.


































This is mom and dad in the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem.  it is a very peaceful place, very quiet and tranquil considering the main bus station is just below it.


































This is my Auntie Norma and Uncle John on their wedding day.
I thought you would like to see some of my digi scrap booking attempts.


see you all soon

More from the lottie

Hello All, bet you thought I did not exist any more.  Well we have been busy at the lottie for the past couple of months

The spuds are all in and the peas have been planted too.  We still have some spare ground but we going to plant some corn and courgettes and I have some different types of beans I am going to try this year.

We have some broad beans in this year again but only 1 row as we get some many and not really very keen on them so only 1 row of 12 plants this year.  That will be more than enough.  We intend to plant the sweetcorn between the peas and the broad beans and see how they do.








Below you can see a phot of the whole plot.  if you compare this with the first set of pics then you should a big  difference

                                                                                 

Below is the newest addition to the plot.  My new bean poles I am trying them like this for this year.  I have put the canes in 2 rows and then put a long cane at the top to stabilise them and  see how the go with that. I think this is an old way of doing them but very cheap.

This is some rhubarb we found growing on the plot so we moved it to by the apple tree.  They go well together in a pie so hope they like each other's company in the ground as well.  Last photo is just some of the mares tail we have found this week so we have just got to keep going at it 

So anyway got to go now will try to keep coming back 

See you all again soon

My new plot

Hello All

I have got a new Lottie plot

We have dug 3 beds so far and it is will take at least another 3 weeks to finish digging it as we only have a couple of Saturday and Sundays to work on it.

As you can see in the top photo we have already planted some things it.

This is the 1st bed we dug and we got about 8 lb of spuds out of it.  we have got lots of weeds to get rid of but what is new for any plot owner.

If you look closely you can just about see a line of string from the bottom right of the photo above to about half way across and then it goes back to the back of the plot.  This is going to be the spud bed for next year.  It needs a lot of digging and weeding but it will give us lots of spuds for next year.

In this part of the plot we have planted 80 onions, both red and white varieties that aer winter hardy. We also planted some pansies, cinerarria.  Not only will it give me some colour but it also helps me remember where I planted some things hehehehehe.



As you can see I have a shed, 2 water barrels and a compost bin.

I will keep you all updated as to what is happening.