Oh heck.....work tomorrow!

Here are my weeks worth of 365 photos (only 6 as I have already put up last Mondays). I am going to number them instead of putting the date on from now on too as it makes it easier to caption.


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 We went out for the day last Thursday. It was a beautiful spring day.

Just look at that blue sky!


cobbled lanes

We went to Holmfirth, Last of the Summer Wine country.

There was a little bit of shopping done.

and a walk up the hill.

Then we drove to Marsden to walk along the Huddersfield Narrow canal.

towards Tunnel End.

The visitor centre at Tunnel End is currently closed but it is the longest, deepest and highest canal tunnel in the UK. The canal tunnel was built between 1794 and 1811.
There are also three railway tunnels following the same route under the Pennines, but only one is still in use, built between 1890 and 1894.



The old Canal warehouse

 Then we walked up the hill and along the lane.

And back down to the car. The sky was still so blue!

Where did the week go?

Can't believe it's almost the end of my half term off school,  I know it's only Friday but I am already thinking about the new topics for art next half term and starting to plan things.
So what have I been doing with my week off work?
Monday and Tuesday was spent cleaning and tidying the house.
Wednesday started with a cappuccino and croissant as I was up early for a workshop.
I had managed to wangle my way onto a workshop by Janet Browne.
A group of local ladies who meet on a regular basis had booked her for a workshop, I had heard about it at a talk Janet Browne gave to the Halifax Branch of the Embroiderers Guild when I went along one evening last October.
This time we got to play!

After a talk and demonstration by Janet we all had to make a simple sample (of your house!)

With her technique you work on the back of the piece.

Everyone worked hard at their sewing machines, not even stopping for lunch just grabbing their sandwich in between stitches.

With about 90 minutes before we had to pack up mine looked like this. I wanted to start on a blackbird piece so I left it like that and moved on. It was such a shame when we had to pack up at 3.45pm but I was happy in the knowledge that all the work Hubby and I put in on Monday and Tuesday meant I could........

Go home to my half finished workroom and carry on!

It is by no means finished but tidy enough for me to sit at my desk and do some work. The work top to the right of the desk is propped up on boxes (waiting for the joiner!) but I had had enough and so we cleaned and painted and rolled out the carpet!

Jenny can you see the heart you made for me on the cupboard door!?

And this is my finished sample of our house. Lots of work to do yet on the blackbird piece.
Sorry I am way behind on reading your lovely blogs, I will catch up with you all over the weekend.

Half term



365 Project 14th February

 This week is half term and Hubby has taken the week off work too.


365 Project February 15th

It's a very grey day today and the rest of the week isn't looking too promising.


365 Project 16th February



365 Project 17th February

It was mild last week but we had snow on Saturday!


365 Project 18th February

I will tell you later about our Victorian day at school.


365 Project February 19th



385 Project 20th February

I popped over to see my mum on Sunday and her old dog gave me a chance of a photo.



365 Project 21st February

Today we have been doing a bit of painting in my workroom.

Now back to our Victorian day in Class 5 at school last Friday.

I had the children in rows instead of the usual groups of tables.

They all had a piece of hessian and I showed them how to use their prodders to push the tee-shirt pieces through.

They didn't finish them but they were all very enthusiastic to finish them when we get back after half term.

well I know you will want to know what I looked like on the day........ 



now don't you laugh...........




I look like Mrs Bridges!............

Bowland

Last Saturday Hubby and I took advantage of the sunshine and blue sky. (ok so there was some white clouds floating about!)

We drove up to The Trough of Bowland.

It's a beautiful part of the country and only one hours drive from where we live. You can read about it in more detail on their tourist wesite here.

We parked in Clitheroe and walked up the hill to visit the castle and museum.

This was the view from the tower looking towards Pendle Hill. The stories of the Pendle Witches come from this area.

It is a well thought out little museum, one of my favourite bits was the Victorian kitchen (see the rag rug under the rocking chair?)

We stopped at this fantastic Pack Horse Bridge.

Cromwell's bridge goes over the River Hodder.

The 16th century bridge is an old pack horse bridge that gets it's name after Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentary army crossed the bridge on their way from Gisburn to where they fought the King's men in the battle of Preston in August 1648.

Just look at that sky!

We then drove to Ribchester.


Ribchester Roman Museum

The village was originally established as a Roman auxiliary fort named Bremetennacum. The most famous artifact discovered in Ribchester, and dating from the Roman period, is the elaborate cavalry helmet. The helmet was discovered, part of the Ribchester Hoard, in the summer of 1796 by the son of Joseph Walton, a clogmaker. The boy found the items buried in a hollow about three metres below the surface, on some waste land by the side of a road leading to Ribchester church.

The sun was setting and the last of the rays lit up the church.