Make yourself a brew.......

.......pull up a chair and get ready for a long post.

365 Project January 31st

First I will show you the week's photos for the 365 Project.


365 Project February 1st

The days are getting longer and I am so glad.

365 Project February 2nd

But the drive to and from work still holds inspiration for me.


365 Project February 3rd

And as I am at school most of the daylight hours, that too features a lot.

365 Project February 4th

 This weekend I have taken lots of photos so I had lots of choice.


365 Project February 5th

During the week I picked this up from the Parish council.

Need a closer look?



Remember I won best in show for this photo?



Best in Show

I get to keep the trophy for a year. I have to say my 2nd Blogiversary passed yesterday without fanfare. I will do a double celebration giveaway when my workroom finally gets finished (sometime at the end of March) I already have two lovely ladies being very patient waiting for doggie portraits from me.
I had a lovely (if a bit rainy) time in Manchester on Saturday.

I met up with Kathy and Diane at the Stitch and Creative Crafts Show. Now Diane and I have met before but we had never met Kathy. anyone listening to us during the afternoon would never guess though. We all got on so well and had such a lot in common, it was as if we had known each other for years!

First it was Afternoon Tea at the Radisson Hotel. It use to be The Free Trade Hall and has this plaque on the wall outside commemorating the Peterloo Massacre of 1819.

We sat at a table in the window (very handy for waving at very young sailors-see Diane's blog!)



Photo taken after we ate the sandwiches and scones!

 Afternoon tea was wonderful,

Yummy triple decker sandwiches and

Perfect scones with jam and clotted cream and a selection of delicious looking cakes (which had to be boxed up for us to take home!)

and of course a pot or two of good loose leaf tea.

Then on to the serious business of shopping.

It was a day for ooooohing at ribbons and aarrrrhing at fabric and running fingers through the yarns on the stalls. We were seduced by a bead stall at one point and all bought the same Tilda book at another.

We swapped a few goodies before we parted (I will photograph my lovely goodies during the week and show you them) and then we left for our various forms of transport home. A perfect and relaxing day with two lovely ladies and a promise to do it again very soon.

I walked back to the car park the long way and took a few more photos.

The Chinese Lanterns were up in Albert Square celebrating the Chinese New Year.
Then with the rain still falling I headed for the car and the drive home.
I was tired but happy.......

.....but my boxed cakes got a bit squashed!