Brill day out and lots of stitching for you :)

Hi Every one :) hope you are all ok and have enjoyed this bank holiday even with the rubbish weather we have had here at the mouse house in the UK ... Happy Memorial Day to my friends across the pond too :)


Ok soooo where to start .... firstly my glasses are ace I can seee youuuuuu ...lol 
Righty ho ... on Saturday  the mouse clan went on a day trip to Mother Shipton's Cave in Knaresbrough .. we packed a picnic and set off quite early for us for a change ..lol I drove there and apart from a few rainy moments we arrived to dry but fresh weather at the park.


we opted to walk down the avenue of trees as to be honest if I had to have used the chariot .. I wouldn't have been able to go (it does state this on the web site) and fortunately I was having a good day on the old pins so we set off . I shall warn you now there is going to be lots of photos :) so grab a cuppa heheheh
We tootled along the wooded walk .. I was admiring the trees and taking lots of photos as I went along .. did I mention I love trees and taking photos hehehehe :)

The photos probaly won't be in the right order but hopefully you will get the picture ..lol 

Steps to go up then down

love those roots

the long walk way 

 

me before we set off

Ok the photos are definitely misbehaving ho hum ..lol  and I haven' t figured out how to change those html that some one said about in an earlier post (sorry name escapes me atm )

top of petrifying well

wishing well

When you get to the end of the walk you have to go up a flight of steps and can look down onto the petrifying well as you go over it ( see photo) .... you then have to go down another flight to the well itself ... It is really an impressive sight with a whole load of things hanging down from the wall being petrified...... you can listen to a talk on it and see things that Famous people have donated to be petrified ... they are mostly in the museum further on ... behind the well is the wishing well .... you have to follow some simple instructions while making a wish and not tell any one what you have wished for 

bottom of the well

cave With Mother Shipton in the background

from there you go to the cave where Mother Shipton was born .... DD1 was amazed at how small it really was .... it certainly was warm in there and seem to be protected from any adverse weather .

looking up

 

well having just previewed this it is really higgledy piggldy ..lol 

hopefully it will return to normal soon hahahah 

hope you are still enjoying the  guided tour of our day out ... you may want to refill your cup now ..lol ...... we came out of the museum and wandered into the town centre where we succumbed to refreshments in the Loft Tea rooms.... you ought to have seen the Paradise Hot chocolate that DH had !!!! and I didn't take a photo nooooooo :(

we spent time wandering round the castle and the memorial site there too 

in the castle grounds

before heading back to the car to rest our weary feet and have our picnic .... we got back early evening and to say I didn't do much apart from stitch the next day sums up how stiff and ouchie I was, but it was worth it :)

Soooo now on to the stitching ... it is with great pleasure that I can announce what I was working on last week as I know Kate  has finally received it :) Unfortunately her partner in one of our exchanges in Friendly stitchers has been unable  due to unforeseen circumstances  complete the exchange .. so I stitched her a pin cushion and sent it on along with a gloriana thread too ... and here it is :0... I also did the wording to the Plum street Sampler chart on the back but in backstitch as there wasn't enough room to stitch it on :)

I have also been stitching on my Romantique SAL ,  Home of a Needleworker too , The Tea Rooms , Poinsetta house , started Fa la la and generally enjoying being able to see again to stitch :)soooo with out further ado and hopefully they will behave themselves are the photo updates .....

for Kate

Fa la la LHN

Poinsetta house LHN

LHN the tea room

LHN  

Romantique SAL

You will notice that I have un picked the swirl at the bottom of the HOAN and re done in the blue as well as satin stitched the cotton reel (thanks Gillie ) and slightly altered the top of the house ... I was afraid I would run out of the blue so changed the boarding to white .. :) and there you have it ... I have almost got the SAL up to date but I have realised I have made a boo boo in the dark purple roses top right I have missed a whole row out on the  second rose up !!!!! soooo I can do one of two things ... frog it or say whoops and leave it ????  thoughts on this matter greatly appreciated :)

I must say that there won't be much stash buying for a while as we found out last week that DH job may be privatised and he could be moved elsewhere or be paid off ????  soooo when I have run out of stash I may be on the look out to finish peeps UFO 's for something to do :)..... please form an orderly queue hahahahah 

right if you have got this far, well done ..lol you deserve a medal (piece of cake do ????)  I shall leave you in peace for a while and give my aching fingers a rest hehehe .....

take care and happy stitching 

love mouse xxxxx