October Scavenger hunt

A Sunset

October Scavenger hunt list was going to be easy.....or so I thought!

Golden

I found it really hard, only getting the last few this past weekend and I apologise now if some of them are a bit boring!

A river

The River Ribble ( I have to thank my lovely friend Shan for helping me find some of the photos for the hunt this month, we did have a giggle though!)

Graffiti or Street Art

Some great street art in the park in Preston

something eerie

An eerie statue at Bankfield Museum, Halifax

Pumpkins

or in this case.....some lovely pumpkin fritters made by Shan!

Crunchy leaves

Heritage

Port Sunlight Heritage Centre

candlelit

I made a bit of a halloween display lit by candlelight tonight

mist

A broomstick or witches hat

I made a mini broomstick!

A black Cat

We found this black cat waiting to be let in the front door of a cottage in Port Sunlight
So there they are....but I must leave you with another sunset!

tick tock Friday already

It has been a strange two days.
Thursday was grey and dull and drizzly
Hubby had taken the two days off work but as it was such a bad day we decided to go to the cinema. Not a great big cinema complex but our little local cinema. The films may take a month to arrive and only be on for a few days each but it has a wonderful atmosphere.

Hebden Bridge Picture House opened it's doors in 1921 and is run by Calderdale County Council (although they want to sell it I believe)
Every Thursday it has a showing at 11am and this week it was Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy. A great film well worth watching.

I want some for my car!

We had a mooch around the shops but it was a bit chilly and miserable so we drove home. It's our 15th wedding anniversary on Tuesday but as we will both be at work that day we decided to go for a meal on Thursday evening.

We went for a lovely Tapas.
When we got home there was a Gas Van at next doors and our neighbour came out and told us she had smelt a strong smell of gas so phoned the gas emergency services. It was coming from our flue so he had turned us off!!
It was bloody cold in our house last night I can tell you.

and this morning too! It was so lovely and sunny today after the day before but we had to wait in for the heating engineer and the TV aerial man (long story) Hubby said he would wait in so I was free to pop to Bankfield Museum in Halifax.

I love this museum.
I have just found a post I wrote about it here when I visited in spring 2009

The entrance is so beautiful.

In 1867 Edward Akroyd, a local Mill owner turned his modest Villa into the large building we see today.

In 1887 he sold his mansion to the local corporation and they turned it into a museum

and public library.

weaving and dressing up for the children

It mainly houses Textiles and Costumes

The mansion was built next to the mills and workers houses that belonged to Akroyd the houses he built for his workers were at the time considered better quality than the slums most mill workers were living in.

When I got home the house was warm and the TV was working so hubby decided we would catch the last of the sunshine and go for a walk locally.

Stott Hall Farm

We had a good view of Stott Hall Farm in the middle of the M62 motorway.

The sun was dipping behind the hills

We didn't see any Pedigree Dexters but we did see.......

......a pig with satellite TV!

Here is the fabric I bought on Wednesday, three grey tones

three brown/orange tones

Three bright patterns

and some that needs to be used in the next few days!

And two bargain books I picked up last weekend. Kirstie's from Tesco and the other from The Works.

Thursday already

So far this half term I have had a lovely lot of 'me' time.

Time to make rhubarb jam. An nice easy recipe found here.

There was another glorious sunrise on Monday morning

I have to say it was even more spectacular than the day before!

Time to visit friends and spend time giggling.

and eating a lovely lunch!

Time to walk in the park on a visit to Preston

tree creeper

And watch the tree creepers and squirrels.
Time for a spot of fabric shopping

and time to make some chutney
But so far I have not been very craft productive. It is high time I thought about making some of the Christmas presents I want to make for family and friends.
I have just got into PINTEREST, which might prove to be a big mistake!