Scrapbooking and Tea Towels

Today we have spent most of the day in the garden digging over the veg patch and then we took the children to the park on their bikes but I forgot the camera. To save you from looking at a picture of dug over soil and horse manure I thought that I would show you some scrapbook pages that I have been working on. The photographs are not recent as you will see but you cant rush these things. This is my Mother in Law and my Daughter,

b oth the children swimming
Having a walk and bike ride in the snow with dolly of course

These are some towels that I bought recently from Laura Ashley, I feel that they are far too good to dry the dishes and no doudt someone with grubby hands will use them. I have decided that I will probably use them to make a couple of cushions for the Monks Bench in the Kitchen. I dont know how I will do it but that is the idea for now anyway.

I have two very tired children right now, The eldest was sleeping at a friends last night so you can imagine how much sleep they got and so she is sat watching Riverdance, the ther has spent the day digging out weeds in the garden. Daddy told him that he would pay him 10pence per weed, at last count he had over £4.00, either I have lots of weeds or he got lost with the maths somewhere along the line.

Strawberrys and Tomatos

When you come in or out of our house you have to go through a porch and this is the greeting that meets you every day, fresh home grown soon to be strawberrys and tomato plants. i love strawberrys but just for the record hate nasty horrible fresh tomato.. I love sun dried tomato or sauces with tomato but cant bear fresh tomato YUK !!!

Welcome Spring

oday the weather had been beutiful, far too nice to b stuck indoors. We made the most of the weather and headed through to Newcastle and parked up at the Quayside. Here are afew pictures that I took.
The Millenium Bridge, if you look below you will see that the bridge tilts over when there is a boat passing through.


The Tyne Bridge taken from the middle of the Millenium Bridge. We decided to wait until it had let the boat through before walking across hehehehehe

Underneath the Tyne Bridge, we found a fantastic Ice Cream shop here but I was far to busy eating it to take a picture. Eaton Mess ice Cream YUMMY!!!!!!

The Baltic Flour Mill which has now been turned into A Centre For Contemporary Art. I have never been into the art part but there is a nice coffee shop at the bottom where we have spent many a Sunday afternoon drinking coffee and watching the children play.

This is a HUGE mural which is on the side of the Baltic, I thought that it was quite appropriate in these times of climate change.


It reads,


IMPROVING THE WORLD,
MEANS IMPROVING ME.
I WANT A BETTER WORLD,
I WANT A BETTER ME.

I dont know if the message is about climate change but I guess that the thing with art is that you take what you want from it. One person sees beauty and the other sees something very different. To me this is all about climate change and how we must change the person we are in order to make better changes for the world we are lucky enough to live in.