Wow! What a lovely weekend it was this weekend - almost too hot I have to say for me - I'm rather pale skinned so often struggle with the heat - plenty of suncream for me. It was rather nice to have a bit of lovely weather though - everyone almost seems happier when the weathers nice somehow - there seems to be a lot more smiling faces around and about.
I haven't been too creative over the last couple of weeks - slightly lacking in inspiration I think - I said before that I felt a bit lost without my blanket to be making and haven't quite found anything that has inspired me enough to replace it yet.
On Saturday my hubby was out at work so I was left in charge of dinner - brave I think!!! - but I don't think I did too bad. Salmon and vegetable parcels - with roasted new potatoes. I did run away at the point of figuring out all of the timings etc and actually putting it in the oven but I did the difficult bit!
All wrapped up ready for the oven:
The only other thing that I have really done is to make an Owl. The pattern for this came from a group I follow on Facebook - they have been running a little craft-along online and this was the project. I had completely forgotten about it for a couple of weeks but finally got around to finding the pattern and having a go on Sunday. Here is the link to the
free pattern. I made one complete owl yesterday and started a second.
The second one will be in these colours
Tonight we went for a little stroll along the canal not too far away - we went to explore what was in the opposite direction to where we have been before. It was definitely just as pretty and almost more relaxing as there were a lot fewer people along this way.
There was plenty of wildlife though including swans:
Baby coots (Mum was in the bottom right, just out of shot):
We took a wander along a bit further and found...
this lovely house - how amazing would it be to live here with the canal as your front garden! Maybe one day...we can dream!
Just outside we saw some mallard ducks - little ones again with Mum:
A coot on a roost:
And just before we got back to the car, some peacock butterfly caterpillars - munching on the stinging nettles:
I love finding new things so close to home.
