Last week was positively hectic.... a trip to Lancaster where I managed to finally meet my son and his girlfriend, we haven't seen them for an age due to covid - a lovely wander and catch up and the weather was kind - then a fleeting trip to Coniston to meet up with some old pals not seen for far too long. I had (for me ) an adventurous walk up the valley which included off road rambling , quarry scrambling and breaking out of private premises......and as is becoming common in the Lakes I got hailed on again!!! It was nice to sleep in the van again though - its along time since we had such an outing...
We also had an exciting trip to Leeds where we spent an afternoon with my lovely daughter and her girls - hard to believe its been three years since we lost Jay - but it has - and we toasted his memory - then we went to see our very good friends who have finally, after massive hiccups have moved house!!! They found their dream home about a month before we found Coundon Tower and its taken them this long to sort out various legal housey stuff - but its sorted and we were honoured to spend the first evening with them in their new home drinking fizz and eating pizza and marvelling that this momentous occasion had finally come to pass...
Breakfast at Morrisons - what a novelty and then we collected approximately a 1000 books and assorted bric a brac (potentially rubbish) from our Leeds storage and hit home with an over loaded van and I spent the rest of the weekend shelving books and reminiscing over old junk....
In-between all this I made new curtains for the spare room and the dining room and best of all I started a pottery class!!!!
I have wanted to do pottery for ages but haven't either had the time or found a suitable class but somewhere on my social media Love Heart pottery popped up and when I contacted them they had a space!!! So last week I went and learned all about clay and made a mug!! Now I'm defo never going to be thrown down material but it was such good fun doing something completely new and something so squishy and tactile. The mug was left to dry out and this week after I tidied it up - its still a wee bit wonky and its a bit of a mammoth vessel but its my first foray into ceramics and I love it.... after tidying the mug I made a basic coil pot which was amazingly messy and goodness knows what it will look like as a finished object - hopefully better than how I left it on the drying shelf 😂😂... neither objects have much finesse but then again neither do I - but its a fab classes where I have been made very welcome as a newcomer and I look forward to giving Grayson a run for his money.......
Next I will sort the garden - the greenhouse is overflowing with plants that need permanent homes so I'm hoping for dryer weather - things don't look too hopeful with the virus situation at the moment - we continue to be safe and we will continue to be much more careful than we had hoped we needed to be - so glad we had those little but meaningful adventures last week but now its pots and garden time... what more could a girl want!!!
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