A catch up from June!!

Well….. June went with a blur and we are almost half way through July!….. we are so busy with the house renovation, the builders are working very hard to try and get it mostly finished by the end of August. Then we will be able to move in … yippee :-)  It seems quite close now, but I've not really thought about all the packing and sorting things out at the house we are in at the moment. Every time the girls come home I do get them to go through their things and sort out what can go and what should be moved with us. 

However, I did manage to make some time to go to Woolfest, at Cockermouth. I really like this event, maybe as it was the first I ever went to a few years ago now. I was good and only bought a couple of  things…..

…… some yarn. I have plans to make a cardigan with this, as I have a lovely pattern that I want to use. However, I will not be starting this project for a while.

I also met with Jackie Cardy on her stall. I have admired her work via her blog 'Dog Daisy Chains' for a while now and was pleased to actually meet her in person. I bought one of her beautiful brooches, and may well save up for one of her lovely textile wall hangings.

The hay fields, near our present home, really did look fantastic this year with all the wild flowers. I walked around the edge of my friends fields and came away with very yellow trainers!

 

On walks with the dog along the lanes and bridleways, there have been so many beautiful wild flowers….

…. mingled with the scent of honeysuckle, it has been gorgeous

I also bought my friend a pair of chickens, here they are just settling into their new home.

Other wild life….. a toad that came in to see us one morning!

On the house front …. the fittings are now going in, so I've been busy trying to sort out a pattern for the tiles behind the cooker - just as well I enjoy patchwork!!

View from my window - June

I know, I'm a little late getting my pictures out this time. No excuses really, but have just been generally busy - the girls have both graduated from University this year (well done and congratulations to both!) and M has just moved to Bristol and C is moving to Oxford. Our house is now a depository of three years worth of belongings so we have lots of boxes to absorb somehow!! Exciting times for the girls though.

At the beginning of the June the bluebells were still just showing in the bluebell field above the wood. The cows are now out in the fields, the blackthorn bushes were in flower and the grass really looking lush.

By mid month the bluebells had faded but the buttercups and meadow flowers are beginning to show up well in the hay fields.

The real star of the show this month has been the buttercups. The meadows have been awash with buttercups as far as the eye can see. I love the way they dance in the breeze. Quite a few of the farms around us have taken their first cut for silage, but our immediate farms keep the fields for hay or haylage.

Just look at all that beautiful yellow! Reminds me of a quilt made by Elizabeth Brimleow  called 'Low Meadow'- see here

I also spied some deer in the fields, just cheekily grazing on the buttercups

Now the end of June, and although we have had some lovely sunny days this month, we are back to low cloud and drizzle. The English weather is so unpredictable, I think thats why I like living here!