Another Week Passes

Hello folks!

We've had another wet and blustery week, in fact at times its been downright miserable.  I cheered myself up with a load of wood.  Evenings are now warm and cosy but the flip side to this is that too much warm and cosy sends Mr Clicky and me to sleep at 9.00pm in front of the TV.

I've had a weekend of cooking stews, bolognese and things in a pot.  Mr Clicky, me and our friends B and S are popping over to France to do some work on our house.  After a day's work we need something quick and filling, hence the cooking, the freezer is now full.

Miss Clicky and me went to see Baloo the horse on Saturday morning.  The weather was horrible and raining very heavily.  We got him in from the field, gave him some food and scraped as much water off him as we could.  Miss C decided it was too wet for a proper ride and would just ride him bareback back to the field.  I was giving her a leg up ~ no stirrups.  First try at a leg up she rose about a foot.  "You've got to push me up," she said.  "Ok," I said and gave her a jolly good throw.  Such a good throw that she went right over and landed on the other side.  Third go, just right.

Here he is looking soggy.

Another Cotswold Stone wall.  They fascinate me, the lichen must have been there for years.

I bought two Christmas magazines this week.  I hardly buy magazines but I do treat myself to Christmas ones.

Firstly Prima Christmas Makes with inspiring Christmas things.

I liked these button tree cards.

Pretty felt decorations.

Lovely blankie.

I also got the Christmas Ideal Home Mag.....

.........with the calendar.  All I need now is some time to read them properly.

You may know of my like  obsession with Christmas decorations.  I found these in Tesco the other day they'll fit in perfectly with my colour scheme this year. 

 So that's me for now, I've cast on a sock ~ small for knitting whilst in the car driving through France. 

See you next week with a full report.

As always, have fun.

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

P.S. We haven't abandoned the kids in case you were wondering, my Mum is having a short break at our house.

Knitting!

Hello again.

I thought you might like to see what been on my needles lately.

A cerise pink felted bag.

I bought the yarn at Wonderwool back in April and knitted and felted it fairly soon after.  It's taken a very long time to sew on the button.  The pattern is by Bev Beattie.  I used every last cm of the 3 balls of yarn.

I finished the hat I was making for my colleague C.  She had asked for a hat and found the pattern.  I so was flattered to be asked. I've used Eden Cottage Yarns Maya, a lovely soft alpaca.  It was a pleasure to knit with and is going to be a really warm hat.  I added an extra pattern repeat as C wanted it nice and slouchy.

The pattern is here if you fancy it.

It's all wrapped up now.

Lastly, progress on my Temari cardi. As you can see not much, but there we are.  I'll remedy that soon.

That's me for now, have a great week.

Bye.........Clicky Needles. 

Not Much.

Hello Folks!

Well, half term is nearly over.  

It has been a lovely week.  As usual I planned to do lots of 'stuff' but didn't really manage much of it.

The wooden kitchen work tops remain unsanded and untreated.

The back door still has it's coat of undercoat and no topcoat (that was from the first day of the summer holidays!)

The hall still hasn't been painted.

I have however, woken up every morning and sat in bed with my iPad and read Blogs.

Not just a quick once over, a proper read.  I have missed catching up with all you lovely people and your interesting lives, your knitting, crochet, gardening, families and blustery Autumn walks. 

I've decided that I will make time every day to continue.

So what did I do this week?

Well, I went into Cheltenham on my own and wandered.  I tried on a few things and bought, guess what?......a flappy cardi.  I do love a flappy cardi.

I spend a whole day I kid you not, ironing.   The ironing basket was overflowing.  

 Did I mind?  Not one bit.

Miss Clicky was out with her BF and Master Clicky was out with the kids in the street.   I was ironing and catching up on TV it was lovely.  

This morning I've been out with Miss Clicky.  She is helping out with a horse near us called Baloo ~ that's her on him, not me in case you were wondering.  Now, I have no affinity with horses.  I don't like them that much, give me a cow any day.  Miss Clicky however, has ridden on and off since she was 5 years old and is a good horsewoman.  Baloo is like a naughty teenager and cheeky too so he needs a firm hand.    Rides involve me walking in front and as we are in the Cotswolds, up and down steep lanes, so I'm also getting some much needed exercise.

Today I took my phone hoping for some photos.

This moss looked like it had been there a while.

 Gloucestershire still looking good, despite the rain.

I'm all my own again now. 

 The dog is curled up and snoring behind me me, Miss Clicky has gone to Tesco to do her Saturday afternoon stint and Mr and Master Clicky gone to watch Forest Green Rovers in Nailsworth play Dagenham.  They did ask me if I wanted to go but try as I might I can't get into football.  

So I find myself with a peaceful few hours.  

Bliss.

I feel recharged and ready for school next week.

As always, it's lovely to have you here, see you soon.

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

October Mosaic

I've been really tardy on Mosaics lately so here's one at last.

......and Rest.

Hello There!

Half term is here at last, eight weeks is a long time!  There was a lot of tiredness at school.  

The storms seem to have passed this corner of Gloucestershire with not much effect.  There are leaves on the ground but that's about it, thank goodness.   Some have not fared so well.

Mr Clicky, me, Master Clicky and the dog have been to stay with Mr Clicky's sister in High Wycombe this weekend.  We haven't been away for a while and it was lovely.  

We visited Cliveden, a National Trust property, one time home of Nancy Astor, maybe more well known as the setting for the Profumo Affair.  We walked in the woods as we had the dog with us, it was warm and blustery.

Along the walk there were sculptures made from tree trunks.

 Snail ~ in case you were wondering!

 Man and woman.

We walked down through the woods and along the Thames.

 We then had to walk back up a lot of steps.

At the top was a beautiful carved bench which we rested on.

And looked back down where we had been.

The leaves were a bit damp so disappointingly not crunchy.

 From our rest stop we could see the house.  We'll come back one day ~ without the dog ~ and go inside.

 Back to the car now through a beech walk.

We made Master Clicky try out the fitness trail, the dog wasn't impressed.

A lovely walk and a lovely weekend.  Thanks J. 

I've bought two books recently which I thought you might to see.  I'm a bit late to the party with these but there you go!

Granny Squares written by blogger Suz Pinner.   A really nicely written and photographed book.

 There are some lovely patterns.

I'm loving this ~ or is it because it's lime green?

 Knit to Flatter by Amy Herzog.  A useful book to have on the bookcase about adapting patterns to fit your shape.

A few patterns that I like.  Wrap cardi.

Flappy cardi.

And surprise, surprise another cardi.

I've also recently bought this pattern, a hoodie with cables.

I have managed a bit of knitting lately which I'll show you later in the week.  

I wound this football 400g of yarn, the merino that I got at Ally Pally.  This was the twisted skein, I knew I couldn't put it into the stash as a skein where it would without doubt, tangle itself even more.

It took me a mere 4 hours.  Phew!

That's me for now.........see you soon.

Clicky Needles.

Mr Clicky's Trip to Moscow

Hello Folks!

I thought you might like to see Mr Clicky's pictures from his business trip to Moscow.  He was gone for a week so I got full control of the TV remote ~ yay!

He flew easyJet, who'd have thought?

 He stayed on the outskirts of Moscow.  This picture was taken from his (high up) hotel window.  That is a seven lane road you can see.  It was constantly full of traffic.  The high rise blocks opposite are all apartments.

 It looks beautiful at night.

In between work things he and his colleague had a chance to look round Moscow.

Orthodox Church.

 The Kremlin.

 St Basil's Cathedral.

  I love the brightly coloured minarets.

He bought some touristy things back.

Russian Dolls.

This doll is made from silver birch bark. 

 Vodka ~ of course.

 A T-shirt for Master Clicky with the Moscow underground map.

500 rouble note worth about £9.00.

A Cossack Hat for Miss Clicky ably modelled by Master Clicky.  He was going for his best serious Russian Face but starting giggling instead.

Lastly the rain hammering down today.  Luckily the dog had already been out.  Sensibly he refuses to go out in the rain.

 That's me for now.....nice to see you again.

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