The in-between .

 Conscious that I post lots about my trips away I wanted to post what happens in between

Work, is what happens. I work 34 hours per week over 4 days. Mostly I'm sat at a desk, but somedays, like today, I actually get to meet with real people. I really enjoy going out and about and am making more of a concerted effort to do so, even if that includes going into the main office. Today was a visit to a little hospital in Wales.  I am really lucky that my employer has adopted hybrid working but I do need to be mindful that it is easy to get very isolated working from home.

In the evenings I generally don't go out on a work nights, I read or knit or maybe go for a walk. Hubs cooks the meals as he is now retired, lucky devil. He always cooks from fresh and is still managing to get some fresh stuff from our garden

He did really well with Tomatoes this year, which is great as I love them! Lots of different varieties and sizes are to be had. The trouble is I have a habit of eating them like fruit and its quite easy for me to eat his daily pickings.

The evenings are  the time we get to spend some time together as a family, the boys will join us intermittently throughout the evening depending on what we are doing or watching, and if we are all home at the same time we always eat together. No 2 son starts a new job tomorrow which will include evening work, and with no 1 son also working late in the evenings it looks like hubs and I will be getting less family dinners. Maybe ill get more romantic meals for 2 😀

And that's it, nothing exciting just me and a quiet life in-between adventures.

A Cornish weekend.

 The joy of working a 4 day week is that I get every other Monday off. That allows extra time for weekend get aways. 

This weekend we popped down to stay with our Cornish Friend. As you can imagine trying to get out of Bristol on a Friday is painful so we always expect the worse. This time it took us just over 4 hrs to get to where we were going, you can normally do it in 3. I couldn't get out of before 3pm so we left later than we would have liked. On this occasion it may have worked in our favour as the M5 had been just reopened so traffic was starting to move again. 

We had a great weekend and managed to dodge the rain and get out both days for some nice walks. Rosie had a blast with her friend Boris. Quiet beaches with Boris are the only places we let her free run as she is a very distractible dog and also a terrier. 

The trip home took us 4.5 hrs, accidents and volume of traffic making it slower. But I'm now back and sorted and have a lovely evening to relax before getting back to work tomorrow. 

Cheddar Bridge, another weekend away.

Last weekend we took Stan the van off on another Jolly. This time down to Cheddar Bridge which is just under an hour away from home. We met up with hubs brother and  his wife and we both took our hounds.

The weather was ok, we had 1 major down pour on Saturday afternoon but sat under the awning  and managed to stay reasonably dry. Sunday we had a little walk around Cheddar and the sun made an appearance long enough to grab a drink from the local pub and sit outside. The site has the river running alongside which made for some lovely dog walks.

It was a lovely weekend, we decided to stay the Sunday night to make the most of it so we got up early so I was back home in time to log on for work. One of the many benefits of working from home part of the week is the lack of commuting into an office.

This weekend we are off away again, Stan is staying parked up and we are driving down to visit our Cornish friend. I am working until 3 tomorrow so am hoping the Bristol Friday night exodus south that normally occurs is less so this week as its school holidays. If not it could take quite a while to get there!

WIP Wednesday, baby knitting!

 Nope, there are no grand children on the horizon, one of the young girls at work is expecting her 2nd and its a girl. I gently asked if she liked handknits on babies, and to my surprise she turned out to be a knitter! I asked if I could knit a thing or 2 for the baby, she's due in December so prime handknit season, and she said yes. So here I am knitting baby garments. 

How exciting shopping for pink baby wool! this is what I chose

It reminds me of a Neapolitan ice cream. Yarn sorted next was a pattern. I wanted some thing easy to put on and not fussy. I came across the Eliza cardigan  and thought it fit the bill perfectly.  Its a free pattern on Marianna's blog. Worth a look as she has loads or patterns!

This is such a quick knit, easily done in a few days, and as a result I am almost done. I just need to finish the sleeve, sew them up and weave in the ends then find some dinky little buttons and it will be ready to go. I may have bought some more yarn for another  baby knit

The Old Oaks, Glastonbury. Another weekend away.

 The last weekend of July we snook off to a local'ish site for a couple of nights with friends. The Old Oaks is a fabulous little site and immaculately kept. On a good traffic day we can get there in an hour.  We only stayed 2 nights but it was lovely to spend time with our friends. We were lucky enough to be able to sit out both afternoon/ evenings despite inclemental weather. Rosie dog stayed home so we had a dog free weekend for a change. 

I didn't take many pictures walking around Glastonbury as it was raining, so we headed into  The George and Pilgrim for a fabulous Sunday Lunch. I can highly recommend it.

All in all it was a lovely weekend away.