Catch up - June again

Now in Northumberland, we stayed in Powburn near Alnwick.
We saw these wind turbines on the way to Northumberland
from Scotland. We also saw some on the way up to Scotland.
A big talking point.....................
We met these cool customers on a walk around Dunstanburgh
Castle near Craster........................

Craster, famous for its fish and a very pretty place....................

Alnwick Castle, the gardens - very busy, very hot and

worth a visit.........

A must - this amazing tree house. The Hairy Bikers visited it

in one of their series about British baking....................

One day we had a visitor when we got back ..................

More orchids.............................

Cragside a beautiful place.....................

An interesting entrance to the labyrinth on the Cragside estate............

We had a smashing time, very mixed weather and midge bites!

Home to piles of washing!!!

Catch up - more June

In Scotland we stayed in Glencoe.
This was the view from the awning door........
Setting off for the Lost Valley.............

The reason we were there - for the OH to walk up Ben Nevis

on his BIG birthday (on his own, I might add!)............

Fantastic scenery, changeable weather.....................

What the west coast of Scotland is famous for - MIDGES!!!!

Some art by a local chap outside a small shop ..............

The viaduct at Glen Finnen as seen in Harry Potter..............

The lake at Glen Finnen as seen in Harry Potter and the

Goblet of Fire without the monument. This was where Bonnie

Prince Charlie began the journey that ended in Derby - we

didn't know that.................

Onto Northumberland.

Catch up - June

We went on holiday in June. We spent some time in the
Lake District.....................
What a handsome chap!
Very large sculpture on the way up to Catbells.........

Catbells.................

Great grafiti in Keswick.......................

Had to do some stitching for a BIG birthday card and a

fathers day card.....................

Newts at Acorn Bank near Penrith....................

The results of my labours! I made 2 cards with the same image......

Next to Scotland.

Catch up again

My garden............................

I suppose I shouldn't show the weeds!

More catch up - May

More pics.........................
A friendly swan and its five eggs.

A coot family, lots of babies, can only see one here.

A racing pidgeon found in my garden that had 'flown out'.

Apparently it means that it just ran out of energy.

Catch up - May

Just a few pics ..........................
Through the waterfall at Newstead Abbey.

Through the keyhole at Staunton Harold.

Whatton Gardens near Kegworth.

Bonnets for 'Roses from the Heart'

Preparing for a BIG birthday. More later!!

Back at last

It's good to be back. I had problems with the old technology
- a dodgy keyboard. It made using passwords impossible.
It made just writing my name annoying - it would look like
this 'SDuew' or 'DSuew' or 'SDuwe' or 'DSuwe'. Having to
delete every other letter was a real pain.
The new technology came today so I've lots of catching
up to do but not now. See you later............