28th May photo - dolly mixtures

I have been a good girl resting at home today - my foot is slightly better, so I am not going to face a 4 or more hour wait in A & E for an x - ray. It still hurts but the swelling is less so I am hoping I am on the mend.

I needed something to cheer me up - what better than Dolly Mixtures - I love these little sweeties. I ate most of them before I remembered that I did not have a photo for today - but phew - I stopped munching just in time.

So sorry not very exciting today - will try and get out of the house tomorrow.

enforced rest is good for creativity!

As I can't go anywhere today I have finished off 2 outstanding layouts.

This first one just needed the journalling changing from the horrific blob I put on the original - Its not perfect but I think it will do.

This second layout is rather strange - it is based on a pencil lines sketch 135 and as soon as I saw the sketch I knew which embellishments I wanted to use - some buttons which I had bought at the NEC. So the layout evolved from the colours of the buttons- onto papers etc. But oddly none of the photos have any pink or brown in!! I have never done a layout before where the papers did not match the photos. Anyway I quite like it so, I am popping it into Jessica's album.

Don't worry Eleanor I am going to do one for you as well - but I will find some papers that match your PJ's.

27th may photo - woe is me

oh dear how much bad luck can a girl have? What with the mud incident, getting lost in the woods incident and my numb foot - I am in the wars again - this time I have injured my ankle! I fell yesterday out walking on the top of a hill and I am hoping that it is just a really bad sprain and not broken. So today I am laid up in bed resting!!

I had got two Travel Bugs which wanted to be placed in caches on summits - I had 2 lovely mountains in Wales in mind that I wanted to put them in - so just to make sure that I was ready to start mountain walking again - I thought I would try out a medium sized hill on The Brieddens yesterday. I clearly am not ready to start again, as I fell and hurt my ankle very badly. Luckily I had both my walking poles with me so I could hobble down supported. I ended up leaving these 2 travel bugs at the cache on this hill - not as high as they wanted but with gorgeous views over to the Welsh Mountains that they do want to get to.

This is what I thought yesterday's photo would have been - Rodneys Pillar - not a beach photo! I am blaming Steven for my accident as he rang me when I was up here, saying he wanted to leave now to go to Bournemouth and where was I? So I had to rush to get back home and in my rush to find a quicker route back down, fell - so its all his fault! Anyway I drove 4 hours to Bournemouth and half the way back, hobbled around the beach and by the time we got home just after midnight I was in agony and my ankle was twice the size it should be. I have had it in this support overnight and the swelling has come down a bit and it is not quite so painful - I will see how the day goes but tomorrow's photo may be me in the X -ray dept. seeing if it is broken or not!!

here are some more of photos that I thought I would be posting yesterday.

not far to the top from here.

Fantastic views from the top - they never look as good through a lens.


The Welsh Mountains - where I won't be going for a while!

26th May photo - Bournemouth surprise

Well this is not the photo I thought I would be posting today - it is Steven on the beach at Bournemouth!!

We made an impromptu visit there today. Ever since his kayaking course he has been on the lookout for a second hand kayak and on Monday he found one on Ebay - buyer to collect though, from Ringwood! So he decides on Tuesday that we would go down and collect it and as it is only 10 miles from Bournemouth, we could not go that far and not pop in and see our favourite holiday place. We sat and ate fish & chips from Harry Ramsdens on the beach and just enjoyed ourselves in the evening sunshine.

We have not quite perfected the art of taking photos of ourselves at arms length!

25th May photo - Roundabout sculpture

This sculpture is to be found on the Column roundabout and I drive past it each day and admire its lovely sleek lines. I think initially it was a Millennium commission and when they went to remove it at the end of 2000 - there were lots of protests and so thankfully it stayed put.

24th May photo - what I am listening to now

I am not able to get out & about today so thought I would record the music that I am listening to at the moment.

Its Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony and I adore it, I listen to it over and over again. This recording is rather special as his late widow Ursula, gave permission for the performance and recording of the original 1913 version of The London Symphony (Symphony No. 2) to be made just once - so this is likely to be the only chance to hear it as VW first intended. The second & fourth movements are my favorite and at 16 & 18 minutes respectively - which is a lovely long time of bliss.

My Father always said the best way to appreciate music is to block out all your other senses, so that you can just absorb it totally - it so true - so I just close my eyes (not when I am driving !) and let it all sink in.

2 more layouts

I have had a productive day today and created 2 layouts.

I like this first one using the new Lime Ricky papers by Basic Grey. The photos are not very good quality, but they tell a lovely story, so I had to use them. When the girls came home for Dad's birthday last month - Jess thought it would be funny to lock me out of the house and had hysterics because she had been so naughty - luckily Eleanor captured this on film so that I could record this for posperity!

This second layout I am not so sure about - I definately don't like the journalling block and I will change that - but I can't think what else to use at the moment - so its staying until I can find something to replace it with. It show Jess and her Uni friends at the LCR Christmas bash about 2 years ago.