Both wearing the shoes we wore on our big day! The photo below shows my relief at changing into flat shoes later on, I think. Don't know about Dave's excuse. Pimm's and champers, probably.
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Showing posts with label camping. Show all posts
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Weekend Roadtrip & Glamping
Hoorah. I'm back and am finally back up to date with all my card orders. Sorry if any of you have had to wait a little bit longer than usual, but your cards are all on their way to you now. The reason for the slight backlog was some freelance design work last week and also our wedding roadtrip at the weekend. This was the first wedding we'd been to since ours and, as it was quite a way away, we decided to do some extra roadtrippin' and see some folks. We ended up doing Scotland, Yorkshire, Leamington Spa and Sussex in four and a half days but it was so nice to get away properly and catch up with friends and family. The weather was lovely and sunny too. Perfect for our budget accommodation choice... glamping!
Both wearing the shoes we wore on our big day! The photo below shows my relief at changing into flat shoes later on, I think. Don't know about Dave's excuse. Pimm's and champers, probably.
Both wearing the shoes we wore on our big day! The photo below shows my relief at changing into flat shoes later on, I think. Don't know about Dave's excuse. Pimm's and champers, probably.
Monday, 3 August 2009
New Storeyshop Monkeys
I have finally got some new Storeyshop monkeys in progress and all in nice, new designs. I have been making lots to order lately and haven't had a chance to get some of my new ever-increasing sock collection turned into softies. Lots of people have been asking for certain colours recently and I have been promising more are on their way. Inventively named, Pink and Yellow Stripey Monkey is the first of the new batch...
Today has been another catching-up day again after another weekend camping in southern Scotland. It did rain but our luxury supertent was at least already up for us when we arrived so we could head straight to the pub for dinner. When the rain stopped on Saturday, we went for a walk on the Dumfries and Galloway coast. It was really nice apart from a few scary close encounters with cows. I just kept thinking 'Don't run. Don't run. And if you do run, run away from the cliffs!'
I'm home alone tonight as Dave is down south. Filming with the BBC don't you know?! His vehicles are being used for a stunt which will be on BBC1 soon. Watch this space for details!
Today has been another catching-up day again after another weekend camping in southern Scotland. It did rain but our luxury supertent was at least already up for us when we arrived so we could head straight to the pub for dinner. When the rain stopped on Saturday, we went for a walk on the Dumfries and Galloway coast. It was really nice apart from a few scary close encounters with cows. I just kept thinking 'Don't run. Don't run. And if you do run, run away from the cliffs!'
I'm home alone tonight as Dave is down south. Filming with the BBC don't you know?! His vehicles are being used for a stunt which will be on BBC1 soon. Watch this space for details!
Thursday, 30 July 2009
Camping, Mountain Biking and Teeth
We've been on holiday to Scotland. Well, the campsite was actually only just over an hour away from our house but quite a bit further from our friend's homes. We are holidaying in stages as Dave and I both have too much work on to take weeks off. All good though and it's very nice to get away from work for a few days at a time. Last weekend was spent in Dumfries and Galloway and then we are planning to meet our friends again on the next leg of their trip somewhere further north tomorrow.
The thing is, everyone on the trip is a keen mountain biker. Now, I have a bike but, as anyone who knows me will be aware, I'm not a natural sportswoman. I'm a real wimp when it comes to hills and steep slopes at the best of times let alone on two wheels. I am proud to say I did a 'blue run' though at the 7Stanes Kirroughtree Trails. The routes go from green ones through blue and red and finally to stupidly scary black ones. I have to say I enjoyed (most of) it and would like to go back and do more. I didn't think I would be saying that at the start of the day!
Here's a few pics of our scenic break by the lake on our bike trail. It was a lovely sunny day too which we haven't had many of since. Sunday rained half the day but we survived by taking a very long time eating breakfast in the cafe, swimming in the campsite pool and then moving on to the pub.
When the weather cheared up enough to get outside, we went for a walk along the Galloway coast where we walked past the weirdest house. There were loads of strange sculptures all along the path near the house and little things added to the rocks and trees. Someone had gone to great lengths to make little peep holes into the rocks which had slightly disturbing monsters positioned inside. It was all kind of fun but kind of creepy (I hope I haven't given the little girl nightmares who saw me looking into the eye holes and then came and did the same!) Then I noticed the teeth. Human adult teeth had been glued to this rock! I think I have watched too many CSIs and episodes of Waking The Dead and that just made me think about where the teeth had come from. Ewww.
Well, onto more pleasant things. Storeyshop has been nicely busy lately with lots of wedding and new baby card orders and a few monkeys. I am making a special edition London Underground monkey at the moment for someone and also some more nice brightly coloured ones to add to the shop soon. Here are a few recent card commissions...
I'm also busy trying to sort out our spare room and tidy the house up a bit ready for visitors. Woo hoo! My friend is coming up next week and then another friend is coming up the week after followed by another of mine and Dave's friends the week after that. We thought we'd splash out and treat them and future guests to a bed too. Well, a sofa bed anyway. Still better than an elderly airbed. It arrived today and looks quite at home. Now we just need to paint skirting boards, reseal the bath, put long awaited pictures on the walls, sort out the big pile of stuff to go on eBay, paint more walls, sand more floors........ Or maybe I will just concentrate on getting nice food in and planning fun things to do with our tourists. Cream teas, junk shops, a walk to The Wall and cake-making are all on the agenda for next week!
The thing is, everyone on the trip is a keen mountain biker. Now, I have a bike but, as anyone who knows me will be aware, I'm not a natural sportswoman. I'm a real wimp when it comes to hills and steep slopes at the best of times let alone on two wheels. I am proud to say I did a 'blue run' though at the 7Stanes Kirroughtree Trails. The routes go from green ones through blue and red and finally to stupidly scary black ones. I have to say I enjoyed (most of) it and would like to go back and do more. I didn't think I would be saying that at the start of the day!
Here's a few pics of our scenic break by the lake on our bike trail. It was a lovely sunny day too which we haven't had many of since. Sunday rained half the day but we survived by taking a very long time eating breakfast in the cafe, swimming in the campsite pool and then moving on to the pub.
When the weather cheared up enough to get outside, we went for a walk along the Galloway coast where we walked past the weirdest house. There were loads of strange sculptures all along the path near the house and little things added to the rocks and trees. Someone had gone to great lengths to make little peep holes into the rocks which had slightly disturbing monsters positioned inside. It was all kind of fun but kind of creepy (I hope I haven't given the little girl nightmares who saw me looking into the eye holes and then came and did the same!) Then I noticed the teeth. Human adult teeth had been glued to this rock! I think I have watched too many CSIs and episodes of Waking The Dead and that just made me think about where the teeth had come from. Ewww.
Well, onto more pleasant things. Storeyshop has been nicely busy lately with lots of wedding and new baby card orders and a few monkeys. I am making a special edition London Underground monkey at the moment for someone and also some more nice brightly coloured ones to add to the shop soon. Here are a few recent card commissions...
I'm also busy trying to sort out our spare room and tidy the house up a bit ready for visitors. Woo hoo! My friend is coming up next week and then another friend is coming up the week after followed by another of mine and Dave's friends the week after that. We thought we'd splash out and treat them and future guests to a bed too. Well, a sofa bed anyway. Still better than an elderly airbed. It arrived today and looks quite at home. Now we just need to paint skirting boards, reseal the bath, put long awaited pictures on the walls, sort out the big pile of stuff to go on eBay, paint more walls, sand more floors........ Or maybe I will just concentrate on getting nice food in and planning fun things to do with our tourists. Cream teas, junk shops, a walk to The Wall and cake-making are all on the agenda for next week!
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Back Up North
My latest freelance stint in London went well. I got back home really late on friday and then Dave and I headed off to the Lake District early on saturday for a bank holiday camping trip. Neither of us had any mobile phone signal at all so trying to find our friends who had come up from Reading was all done with paper notes attached to cars. Much more fun! It's lucky Dave's Ibex 4x4 is very recognisable!
We had a great time. The weather was lovely and sunny just really windy! Our tent held up at night (some poor people's didn't!) but it was very noisy and we didn't get much sleep. I was grumbling about hating camping at one point in the night when the wind was literally lifting the edges of the groundsheet up, I was freezing cold and had to brave it outside to go to the toilet. In the morning though, with bacon cooking on the little camping stove, I loved camping again!
Right, I must go and finish off my card orders. I made 5 yesterday and I have 2 more to make today along with a monkey who needs packing up and sending to the U.S. Then it's more monkeys and bags to start making ready for We Make and the shop.
Ta ra
We had a great time. The weather was lovely and sunny just really windy! Our tent held up at night (some poor people's didn't!) but it was very noisy and we didn't get much sleep. I was grumbling about hating camping at one point in the night when the wind was literally lifting the edges of the groundsheet up, I was freezing cold and had to brave it outside to go to the toilet. In the morning though, with bacon cooking on the little camping stove, I loved camping again!
Right, I must go and finish off my card orders. I made 5 yesterday and I have 2 more to make today along with a monkey who needs packing up and sending to the U.S. Then it's more monkeys and bags to start making ready for We Make and the shop.
Ta ra
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