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!

Remember September?

I did so well with keeping more or less up to date with my blog posts for the first half of the year....it all went down hill in the summer!

First was a trip one Sunday to Manchester. We had gone to see some super cars but they had been cancelled because Extinction Rebellion were holding a demonstration in the centre of town...

 Plan B was a lovely lunch and a wander around The Science and Industry Museum!

 Over a few days in July and August I painted a corner of school....

 The garden continued to flourish...

 And it was the local Rushbearing.

 I took my mum to Davenports for Afternoon tea...

 On a rather wet day we attended the Elland Vintage show...

 Then one weekend we drove down to Duxford for the Battle of Britain Air Show....on the way we called in at Belton House

That evening we met up with my sister and her family for an evening meal as she lives just down the road from the airfield,

 The next day was very grey and we had a few heavy downpours which meant some of the planes scheduled to fly didn't make it up.

The rain continued throughout autumn....

But I had some planning to do!