Baking day - 8th March photo

I was a very good housewife today and stayed in and baked. I wanted to use my new tray bake pan which I bought from Lakeland this week.

Today's photo is a slice of apricot and almond cake and yes it does taste as nice as it looks!

I tried a new recipe in the tray bake: apple & cinnamon crumble. I had to double the recipe because the tray bake pan is huge, so I think we will be eating this all week.

The new pan came with a posh cover for it -which is very useful.

7th March photo- Scrapz crop

It was crop time again today - but as I am so behind with my 365 journalling, I took along my laptop and worked on that. So today's photos will be of some girls who did actually produce something creative.

Here are Zahra & Teresa playing about with their scissors and papers and despite all the laughing and chattering did produce some lovely layouts.

Here is a photo for Teresa to show to Brett to prove that she actually does something productive at the crop!

I did have some layouts prepared in case I had finished my journalling - hopefully I will be able to work on those this week and have a layout to show soon!

6th March photo.

Today Moyra and I went out walking. So I have chosen a photo of her at the top of Ragleth hill as my POTD.

We visited 3 places - First of all Wenlock Edge. This is situated in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is well known to geologists the world over because of the many layers of exposed sedimentary rock. Moyra's daughter has found many fossils here.
Another sign post! - I could make up the whole of this month's photos with sign posts if I am not careful.
Apart from the wonderful rock formations and fabulous views over Shropshire, there are a couple of sculptures which we had to visit to get the answers for the Earth geocache.

After this we drove to Ragleth Hill- part of the Stretton Hill that I have not visited and found the geocache there. It was very windy up on the top. This was Moyra's first geocache so thankfully it was an easy one to find.

After lunch we drove to Shipton for our final walk. This was a lovely walk and gave us views over Brown Clee (the highest summit in Shropshire ) - I have yet to conquer it!
This is Brown Clee in the background!

I take too many photos!! March 5th photo

I can't choose again!! I must stop taking so many then it will be easier to choose.

I went walking along the Long Mynd today so took lots of lovely shots, but as I seem have lots of photos of the landscape of these hills, tried to get something different - so the following photos are all connected to the Long Mynd somehow.

I think that it will either be this one of the trees or this marker post at Pole Bank.I love this stream shot but as I had a stream one last week can't really have another one.Love this one of the sign post but I used a sign post for yesterdays photo!

There are hundreds of sheep on the hills but could I get one to look at me face on - no!

This is a lovely church in Little Stretton, where I did a geocache from - but I really want a photo to remind me of the hills.

4th March photo - day of contrasts

The sun was shinning today so the walking boots were back on - it felt strange not going out yesterday!

I took photos of some the places I visited and what a variation - canals, meres, castles, rolling countryside and a telescope!


This is the picture I have chosen for photo of the day - the sign post for Ellesmere - usually these are quite dull & boring but I think this one is great. Ellesmere is a lovely little town with a lovely canal and lots of meres (small lakes) which attract lots of wildlife and water sports enthusiasts.

This is the water at Blake Mere where I started the Suduko geocaches.

This is the castle at Whittington - found one cache here, but not another I was looking for.

A huge telescope at Knockin - I did not even know it was here. Apparently it is managed by Manchester University and is linked to a few others dotted around the country, including Joddrell Bank.

The beautiful rolling countryside of Shropshire.

And finally the sun glinting on the Montgomery canal

3rd March photo - ice & water

Its too wet & miserable to go out walking any where today, so I have stayed in and am trying to catch up on my journalling for my 365 photo project - I have decided to change it since I found the free download on Becky Higgins Blog for some 365 stuff - so I am redoing ALL the journalling - still stuck in January!

But the positive news is that the ice and chilled water function on my new fridge is working - Yay! -so in celebration of us being posh in the kitchen - today's photo is the fridge in action!

2nd March photo

Thelma and I have been out to the Malvern Hills today - walking and geocaching. I have never been there before and they are lovely - so today's photo is going to be the landscape of the Malvern Hills.
As well as the lovely hills the area is known for its spring water and here I am collecting natural spring water from a spring - it tasted delicious.