But in the form of words
Showing posts with label countryside. Show all posts
Showing posts with label countryside. Show all posts
Monday, 18 June 2012
Day 171 Countryside
Today I had some more time to myself, the family are due back later and so I decided to get some tasks done and take a trip to York, where we will be moving to in a months time. I needed to submit some paperwork so I hoped on the train, listened to my music and enjoyed the scenery passing by the train...
Saturday, 26 May 2012
The wonderful outdoors
So Britain has been blessed with sunshine. No doubt that this will be our summer compact into a few days of sunny rays. Up and down the country will see many dust of there summer cosies, and see many pasty bodies see there fleeting moments of the golden sun.
For us we took the opportunity of good weather to take the girls out and do some fun activities. I have been working late shifts this week, which mean finishing work rather late but the upside to this being I don't start work until late afternoon allowing us precious time to actually go do things.
On Wednesday we decided a trip to the park was necessary, we put youngest child in her pram seat and got both children sun creamed up, but forgetting myself as I am rather susceptible to the sun, I turn red faster than the carpet does when you've spilt black currant juice on it! The local park was great fun, it had a section for toddlers and a section for older children. Naturally myself and mummy had to try out the rides for our eldest child, starting with.....
Alas all this heat was too much for youngest who we ensured was in the cool shade in her pram and covered up, she decided to have a siesta....
Once we'd tested the rides for you fest it was only rude that we not test the older rides, naturally to ensure they were safe for other girls and boys but also for our eldest child when she gets older....
However at the park there was danger, there was a very hungry crocodile who needed feeding, unfortunately the crocodile ate me, and then decided to snack on our eldest child, who didn't look too worried about it all....
Once the danger from the crocodile was over youngest child decided it was time for her to wake up and join in on the fun. She woke up gave one of her trademark cute smiles to us and mummy got her out of her pram. Enjoying the sun, the park has an even smaller slide for toddlers, Granted our youngest isn't a toddler, but mummy decided that TV could experience her first slide, mummy grasp tightly to her, but she didn't seem too keen on the experience...
Once the park was done, we were all feeling the heat, so we decided to stop by a shop and get some ices creams in. We then sat in the cool shade of a nearby tree and enjoyed our ice creams...
Mummy made eldest a daisy chain necklace and showed her the art of blowing the needles off a dandelion clock which she has now seized upon every chance now....
The next day saw the sun shining again. This time I was off work so it meant we could spend the whole day together as a family and enjoy of what we hope won't be our British summer, but instead just the start of it. Usually on a Thursday we take the children to a ballet class at a nearby play facility. However this mornings class was cancelled as there was only eldest and another child who actually turned up, we guess that most people decided against it as they wanted to take advantage of the sun. No trouble we thought as we were planning on going out in there afternoon after the class we can just go do that now.
Knaresborough is a very beautiful olde town, it's just 5 minutes away from us and has a lovely river flowing through it and some very nice scenes.We decided that it would be nice to park the car up and go for a walk through Knaresborough. As we walked we got to see some very beautiful houses, some showing their age with thatched roof's and some with some artwork...
Our destination in Knaresborough was to visit the castle, it's an old castle remains, and has some breathtaking fews of the river and Knaresborough. As we arrived we had a look around the ruins and accidentally walked into the middle of a tour which we then quickly left, but I was still punished as I was placed in the stocks...
Once free of these I managed to relax and take in the glorious view. The OH went off and bought some local Fish and Chips for us all to enjoy for our tea as we sat on the grass taking in the local scenery and just enjoying the weather...
Eldest child couldn't decide what she wanted to do one minute she was running around, the next relaxing and the next enjoying the view....
I hope you all have enjoyed the lovely weather, and lets all hope this is just the start of a great British summer!
For us we took the opportunity of good weather to take the girls out and do some fun activities. I have been working late shifts this week, which mean finishing work rather late but the upside to this being I don't start work until late afternoon allowing us precious time to actually go do things.
On Wednesday we decided a trip to the park was necessary, we put youngest child in her pram seat and got both children sun creamed up, but forgetting myself as I am rather susceptible to the sun, I turn red faster than the carpet does when you've spilt black currant juice on it! The local park was great fun, it had a section for toddlers and a section for older children. Naturally myself and mummy had to try out the rides for our eldest child, starting with.....
Alas all this heat was too much for youngest who we ensured was in the cool shade in her pram and covered up, she decided to have a siesta....
Once the danger from the crocodile was over youngest child decided it was time for her to wake up and join in on the fun. She woke up gave one of her trademark cute smiles to us and mummy got her out of her pram. Enjoying the sun, the park has an even smaller slide for toddlers, Granted our youngest isn't a toddler, but mummy decided that TV could experience her first slide, mummy grasp tightly to her, but she didn't seem too keen on the experience...
The next day saw the sun shining again. This time I was off work so it meant we could spend the whole day together as a family and enjoy of what we hope won't be our British summer, but instead just the start of it. Usually on a Thursday we take the children to a ballet class at a nearby play facility. However this mornings class was cancelled as there was only eldest and another child who actually turned up, we guess that most people decided against it as they wanted to take advantage of the sun. No trouble we thought as we were planning on going out in there afternoon after the class we can just go do that now.
Knaresborough is a very beautiful olde town, it's just 5 minutes away from us and has a lovely river flowing through it and some very nice scenes.We decided that it would be nice to park the car up and go for a walk through Knaresborough. As we walked we got to see some very beautiful houses, some showing their age with thatched roof's and some with some artwork...
Our destination in Knaresborough was to visit the castle, it's an old castle remains, and has some breathtaking fews of the river and Knaresborough. As we arrived we had a look around the ruins and accidentally walked into the middle of a tour which we then quickly left, but I was still punished as I was placed in the stocks...
Once free of these I managed to relax and take in the glorious view. The OH went off and bought some local Fish and Chips for us all to enjoy for our tea as we sat on the grass taking in the local scenery and just enjoying the weather...
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Pottering madness
Last week saw mine and my OH's 1st year anniversary. Yes I know, 1 year anniversary and we already have a child together, we've moved fast!
Our first date was originally in February 2011 but we recognise march as when we were an official item. So to mark our first official anniversary we arranged for my mam to have both kids. We drove up to drop them off on Thursday night, stayed at my mams before making a swift departure on Friday morning.
Ahead of us was a 2 hour drive. I hadn't told my OH what I had planned for the day ahead, I just dropped hints that I hoped would make her think of something completely different. I kept telling her she needed old clothes (truth) and making sure she wasn't scared of confined spaces, or darkness and the occasional creepy crawly (all these being false) can you guess what she thought we were doing? Yes that's right she thought we were going pot holing.
Instead after a 2 hour drive through some beautiful North Yorkshire countryside as pictured above we pulled up outside our destination, we of course were going to be doing pottery for a few hours taken by a skilled tutor, just me and my OH. I remember on our first few dates we had talked about doing this as it was something she had always wanted to do and something I had previously studied so it seemed like a good idea to spend part of our anniversary doing something like this, OH was pleased at the days activity and, I think a little relieved it wasn't Pot Holing
We got to the pottery venue and was greeted by our tutor for the day, she was a nice lady with over 20years experience, she had a shop full of home made items that were very impressive. We went through to the studio and we began working on our individual masterpieces. Our first project was to make a bowl, first we had to design what we would decorate our bowl with....
Then we had to roll out the clay and start sculpting out designs onto the clay....
Once this was done we then had to cut out our designs and start sculpting the bowl itself so it actually looked like a bowl that could be used. This meant getting a bowl and making some funky shapes and lining the bowl with it....
And viola our bowls were complete....
Once we had done the bowls there was time to use the wheel. Our tutor taught us first and made it look very easy. The OH had a go firstly and was quite unsuccessful as she struggled to get her pot started it eventually collapsed.....
Then it was my go, I found it a lot easier as first anticipated and nearly managed to finish the pot only to fail at the last hurdle of trying to raise the walls of the pot. Eventually we managed to both make a pot with relative success we are both quite proud of these....
After pottering was a trip to hawes for some lunch, I always remember going to Hawes as a child and I didn't like it then, I found it boring and a waste of my time that could be spent playing football or hide and seek but now as what I'd like to think a sensible adult I could appreciate the town it's beauty and the surrounding countryside....
After our trip out and drive back through the beautiful countryside we went home to get changed for our meal. We plumped to go to Deanos in Harrogate after hearing much about it. It's a Tapas bar that doesn't restrict itself to Spanish tapas and instead does smaller versions of other dishes. It was very nice and each dish was perfectly presented and was gradually brought out, they were brought out one by one so you could enjoy them each and didn't feel rushed to eat them do the others don't go cold. Dishes we decided on was the mini steak pie with black pudding, eggs and steak, king prawn salad, roasted duck and 2 others that escape my mind at the moment.
After the meal we escaped to our favourite bar in H Town, the blues cafe bar we enjoyed some live music before going home and enjoying a peaceful house with no children and a well deserved lie in in the morning.
Here's to many more anniversaries.
Our first date was originally in February 2011 but we recognise march as when we were an official item. So to mark our first official anniversary we arranged for my mam to have both kids. We drove up to drop them off on Thursday night, stayed at my mams before making a swift departure on Friday morning.
Ahead of us was a 2 hour drive. I hadn't told my OH what I had planned for the day ahead, I just dropped hints that I hoped would make her think of something completely different. I kept telling her she needed old clothes (truth) and making sure she wasn't scared of confined spaces, or darkness and the occasional creepy crawly (all these being false) can you guess what she thought we were doing? Yes that's right she thought we were going pot holing.
Instead after a 2 hour drive through some beautiful North Yorkshire countryside as pictured above we pulled up outside our destination, we of course were going to be doing pottery for a few hours taken by a skilled tutor, just me and my OH. I remember on our first few dates we had talked about doing this as it was something she had always wanted to do and something I had previously studied so it seemed like a good idea to spend part of our anniversary doing something like this, OH was pleased at the days activity and, I think a little relieved it wasn't Pot Holing
We got to the pottery venue and was greeted by our tutor for the day, she was a nice lady with over 20years experience, she had a shop full of home made items that were very impressive. We went through to the studio and we began working on our individual masterpieces. Our first project was to make a bowl, first we had to design what we would decorate our bowl with....
Then we had to roll out the clay and start sculpting out designs onto the clay....
Once this was done we then had to cut out our designs and start sculpting the bowl itself so it actually looked like a bowl that could be used. This meant getting a bowl and making some funky shapes and lining the bowl with it....
And viola our bowls were complete....
Once we had done the bowls there was time to use the wheel. Our tutor taught us first and made it look very easy. The OH had a go firstly and was quite unsuccessful as she struggled to get her pot started it eventually collapsed.....
Then it was my go, I found it a lot easier as first anticipated and nearly managed to finish the pot only to fail at the last hurdle of trying to raise the walls of the pot. Eventually we managed to both make a pot with relative success we are both quite proud of these....
After pottering was a trip to hawes for some lunch, I always remember going to Hawes as a child and I didn't like it then, I found it boring and a waste of my time that could be spent playing football or hide and seek but now as what I'd like to think a sensible adult I could appreciate the town it's beauty and the surrounding countryside....
Here's to many more anniversaries.
Friday, 2 March 2012
Day 62; Beautiful Yorkshire
Today has seen me and OH dump and leave the kids with my mother and spend a day celebrating our anniversary, and I will be blogging in due course about our days activities but in the meantime I couldn't resist sharing this glorious picture of the beautiful Yorkshire countryside.....
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)