everyday life

everyday life

Monday, 30 December 2019

Venice in October

 Way back in October Hubby and I went to Venice for four nights. We had the most wonderful trip with delicious food, delightful walks, inspiring art and good company. Our lovely friend Michela met us for a drink on our first evening and took us to see some must see places then she continued to guide us around this magical city via WhatsApp for the rest of our stay. Here are just a few of the many many photos I took....and they don't seem to be in any correct chronological order, still they bring back lots of lovely memories.













 Michela took us to this fantastic book shop....books and cats....perfect!

























 A trip to Murano....


 A Bellini at Harry's Bar....






 A trip to the colourful island of Burano.....























 one of our favourite places was the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
















Such a beautiful place, we were blessed with glorious weather but three weeks later this stunning city was hit by a terrible storm and the flood waters were the worst they had been for hundreds of years, we were saddened to see on the news the sight of it in such a terrible way.

Sunday, 15 December 2019

October

 October was a crazy month......so, so busy with lots of lovely things happening.


 The garden started to go to sleep...

I was bought two lovely books, I have not started the Dutch House yet....it is going to be in the new year before I get around to it....
 But I am a third of the way through Volume two of the Book of Dust  by Philip Pullman, I just love these wonderful tales and we are also enjoying the BBC production of the first trilogy at the moment on TV.






In School Class two made masks...
My sister in law got married at the most wonderful venue, The Tithe Barn at Bolton Abbey. The day before she came to our house....first collecting flowers from her brothers allotment.
and then she added to them with the hydrangeas from our garden.


I made two layers of the cake....
the scenery was stunning

and she had made our place settings too
That night we stayed just down the road at the Devonshire Arms...






The next day Hubby and I went for a walk in the rain before going home.






 And in October I did a tiny bit of crochet too!

So this isn't all that happened in October....half term was very very exciting...another time, and yes I will try and do the post before the end of the year!