Inspiration

I was inspired today. It must have been the sun ...

... or perhaps it was the scenery.

Inspired to crochet rather than read.

I chose the colours from round about me - the pinks, purples, yellows and greens of the floating flowers,

The blue, yellow and apricot of the bedding plants,

and the primary colours of the clothes pegs. It was a very good drying day, wasn't it?

Did you know that there are six ways to do each square?

I didn't do six of each though.

This summer blanket was certainly in the sun today.

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Go with the flow

With sentences that flow and a storyline that flows, this book was an easy and very enjoyable read.

Another book finished is

which is the 2nd book in my big bag of books by this author, with gentle, descriptive sentences flowing together to create a stress free read. (Plus plenty of references to places in Blackpool.)

I'm certainly flowing through the books at the moment.

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Jolly part 2

Thank you to Thrift Deluxe for posting about a freebie offer from the Pleasure Beach - free entry which included a ride on the Pleasure Beach Express. Here is the famous laughing man.

Our carriage awaits!

Off we go!

It was a very leisurely 20 minute ride around the park. Watch out for the indians.

These cowboys were enjoying the sunshine.

These tourists (grockles) were enjoying their ride on the Big One.

Mind the elephant.

The Noah's Ark is one of the oldest rides here and the just look at the beautiful curves of the thirties Casino building.

Our jolly was concluded with a ride on a tram.

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Jolly part 1

The first part of our jolly today focussed on sand,

sky,

sea,

and donkeys.

Spot the other visitor to Blackpool.

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From my seat

I read a post on someone's blog, (sorry, can't remember the name of the blog), which was a series of pictures taken from where the person was sitting.  What a good idea. Here am I, sitting in the garden room and above my head are orchids.

To my left is my blue/green blanket - no pussies there today.

On the floor is a basket of old mags and a basket of wool for my 2012 blanket - which I have been neglecting recently.

Above the baskets is a window into the back room and you can see the side of the juke box through it.

The next window along shows our big bird of paradise plant in the corner.

In front of that window are two more orchids with a bunch of bluebells drying - I'm trying to dry some flowers to make petal confetti. It may work, it may not.

Ahead of me are even more orchids sunning themselves. There aren't many flowers on them at the moment.

Lower my eyes and hello, there's me. My white legs don't go very brown. The two cardboard boxes are play boxes for the cats. Whenever we have a box we always leave it lying about for a few weeks so the cats can play in them! (Catty people will understand.) The plastic tub contains water for soaking orchid baskets.

On the floor next to me are my new (yes new, not Charity shopped) flip flops and I notice that I've lost one of the labels from the one on the right. I wonder where that's gone.

To my right are courgette plants which DH grew from seed. They will soon be ready to be planted.

Also to my right is a newspaper, book and a 'little bit of sherry' seeing as it's sherry time.

Hope you enjoyed the tour from my settee. Cheers!

Good to grow

Corn looking cute as it's just been planted.

Spinach springing into action.

Carrots coming along nicely.

Beetroot belting along.

Onions only romping away.

Grape vine growing along its guides.

Tomatoes tied up today.

Cucumber cutting a dash in the corner.

Peas pleasantly pootling along.

Strawberries streets ahead.

Broccoli beginning to grow.

All's well in the edible garden.

Where is it now?

Calling all crocheters, calling all crocheters, be on the look out for the Bloggy Blanket Chain. Last seen on JuliaB's blog in March. Report back to Mum on this frequency. Over and out.

xx