Scarecrows Part 2

Hello, as promised some more Scarecrows.  

Darth Vader and Yoda

Scary! 

Kate and Leo on the Titanic and a surprised girl.

A little boy and his bike and a farmer, sheepdog and sheep.

Sleeping Beauty.

The Queen and Prince Phillip and a tea party.

 Snake (Mr Clicky and me voted him our favourite)

Rudolf

A beautiful view.          Can you see the trampoline? don't    

                               bounce too high or you'll be in the river!         

 One of the little pathways.      I love the colour of this cottage. 

 And lastly our tea! What lovely china for a village hall. 

A beautiful quilt of Chalford Vale on display and all the yummy cakes.

There we are.

I've some knitting bits to show tomorrow and I am pleased to report that Mr Clicky Needles has now realised how nice hand knitted socks are to wear, so I won't be frogging the colourful ones I made for him after all ~ result!  

Bye for now......................Clicky Needles.

The Scarecrow Trail Part 1

Hi there!

Every Easter Chalford has a Scarecrow trail, have a walk and  find clues to a riddle.  The scarecrows are absolutely fabulous.  It must take a huge amount of effort and thought making these wonderful things.  We have lived up the road for nearly 12 years now and have never been, so Mr Clicky and me decided it was time to have a go too. 

 It was raining, misty, drizzly rain the sort that gets you really wet without you noticing it.  We couldn't rouse the children to join us, so we went on our own.  We donned our wellies and got prepared for the wet.

Mr Clicky set off on the very steep footpath

and we were soon finding them.

 General scarecrows.

 Daniel Craig and George Clooney (and why wouldn't you?)

Two camping in the vale and Peppa Pig and family. 

 Lady in Lavender and cat by it's gypsy caravan.

Clown and Bob the Builder (he still had the house to finish) 

The cottage that Amy Winehouse was sat by was beautiful. 

Policewoman to keep everyone in check and Zebedee and Florence.

There was an Olympic theme in some.

 Boris Johnson ( we laughed a lot when we saw this), the Olympic Mascot and a diver.

Well, as this post is rather picture heavy I'll show you the rest tomorrow including our lovely tea and cake.

Bye for now, have fun ................Clicky Needles.

March Mosaic

The March Mosaic is unashamedly all of my Summer Blanket, partly because I'm in love with it and I didn't really do anything else in March!

Scavenger Hunt March

Here's my Scavenger Hunt offerings for March.

Buttons

 Fashion (Cath Kidston)

 Half a face

 Square

City ~ Gloucester of course!  The Docks.

 Landmark ~  Tom Long's Post on Minchinhampton Common.  

 Street Name

 Fancy

 Words (with friends) or in this case with my brother.

 (Amphi) theatre at Cirencester, made by the Romans, the man and dog give scale.  Massive!

 Morning ~ sunrise the other day.

 Kitchen ~ our new tap!

As always, thanks to Kathy and an extra hug.

Easter Holidays and lots of fluff.

Hello there!

The Easter Holidays have arrived, not that it makes much difference to me at the moment!

Some more taking it easy I think.

As Sunday was another fab-u-lous sunny day Mr Clicky and me went for a wander around the local area.

This double flowering cherry was lovely.

(Our) Forsythia was looking good....

and the daffodils on the verges were great too.

After our walk we sat in the garden surrounded by birds.  

Whilst a buzzard soared above, a gang of sparrows crossly chirped because we were in their way and a pair of goldfinches gathered fluffy clematis heads for their nest.

The male stood guard

and the female collected the fluff.  The came again and again.

A pair of blue tits have claimed this nest box we put up several years ago.  They are the first occupants. They've been busy pecking away at the hole ~ it's not quite to their liking.

 (An)other neighbour popped in with some Alstromeria ~ more flowers, I'm feeling quite spoilt.

On Saturday I visited Mother Goose in Nailsworth, a fairly new yarn shop.

Here's my little bag ~ I'm obviously still in my green and purple stage.

Drops Delight ~ a fluffy sock yarn......

... and more fluff, Gedrifa Easy Soft Mohair/Nylon/Cashmere mix, only 1 ball but only £1.80 it would have been rude not to..

..and some lime green/purple/pink raffia.  I love the colours in this.

On the knitting front I finished a pair of socks for Mr Clicky Needles, in a sombre colourway.

I made these lovely socks for Mr CN before, he doesn't wear them though ~ a bit too bright for him.  I'm going to frog them and use the yarn again.

Here's the promised progress on my Jacket.  I'm loving making it, can't wait to finish.

That's about it for now, we're having lazy mornings and lazy days, although wrapping up a bit more, as it has gone very cold.  Glad I don't live in Scotland with all that snow they've had.  How can that be? Sunburnt one week, snowing the next.  The weather's gone mad!

Have fun...........Clicky Needles.