Flowers in the Window: oak tree

Sunday, 1 July 2012

A Weekend Adventure and More.....

It's been a busy week with my son, George, returning home for the summer and two custom orders to complete.

Of course, we've still had time to have some lovely walks with Spencer along the canal....

It's so peaceful there and you hardly see a soul....

......and today up on the Common....the cows were dozing in the warm breeze....

This weekend I've been catching up with a few household bits and bobs with some garden tidying thrown in between the rain showers.

Last weekend, however, we took a little trip away in Harvey J. We had been planning to go away for a few nights but due to the storms and floods (and the fact that the campsite that we had planned to stay at was under water!), we decided to make it a one nighter not too far from home at Ross on Wye.

Of course this was Spencer's first time staying away in Harvey J........

Note the looming black clouds and the wellies!

Spencer soon found himself a cosy nest under the table....

After spending some time browsing in Ross on Wye, we were happy to chill out in Harvey J in the evening. I always bring along some small crafty project. I decided that each time we go away in Harvey J, I will endeavour to make a patchwork block. At the end of the year, if I have enough blocks, I will sew them all together to make a holiday quilt.

Hopefully each block will jog memories of places we have visited :)

So this is my first block, made from pretty strawberry fabrics...it's a simple block called Shoo Fly...

Nice to do a bit of hand sewing....don't look too close!

Pretty summery fabrics...

So at nearly midnight (it had been raining for hours), we opened the door to find Harvey J was sitting in 3-4 inches of water. Finding this rather disconcerting and having visions of Harvey J floating across the campsite in the morning, we decided to move to a higher spot on the site. It was all fine but we slept better for having moved.

In the morning, the weather brightened up and we decided to make the most of our National Trust membership and visit Westbury Court Gardens, a restored Dutch style water garden dating back to 1696.