Raincoat, wellies and work in progress

 

We visited another farmers show last tuesday, the Kilnsey show. This time we needed a raincoat and wellies. There is a craft competition in various categories… I’m contemplating to enter my work next year, that is if I’m brave enough :)
I’m working on a new webset, I hoped to have it finished at the start [...]

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Another grand day

 
It was perfect weather for another day out and this time we went to Hebden Bridge in the Yorkshire Pennines.
Known as the “Pennine Centre”, Hebden Bridge takes its name from the packhorse bridge over Hebden Water. The town developed in late medieval times as a river-crossing and meeting point of packhorse routes from Halifax to Heptonstall, [...]

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A grand day out

Here’s an impression of The Great Yorkshire Show we visited a week or so ago. Horses, pigs, sheep, free wine tasting, cheese and much more yummy things. All in all hours of fun! It’s the biggest famers show in Yorkshire and well worth visiting.
Just click on the picture if you want to see more…

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Crashing into the new year…

First things first…  I wish all my visitors / readers / blog friends a happy 2009!
Our holiday break in Scotland over Christmas was great, we loved every minute of it!  We had good company, laughed much,  listened to music, walked for hours, had a shopping spree in Edinburgh and played golf (well I was stitching while my hubby was playing golf).  [...]

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A day in the history of…

… the Brontë family. Not far from where we live is the town of Haworth where the Brontë family lived for many years.
The Brontës were the world’s most famous literary family and Haworth Parsonage, now the Brontë Parsonage Museum, was their home from 1820 to 1861.
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë were the authors of some [...]

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