River Trip

We have had some very hot weather here over the past week.  Fortunately a cool change came in yesterday and today was much nicer.  Today I was invited to go on a fishing trip for the morning.  I wasn't going to fish but to just hang around.  We had a great time and I took lots of photographs, some of which are shown below.

At one stage I noticed this little grey thing running along and closer inspection revealed it to be a crab, it was extremely small and was indeed running sideways.

As the fishing was winding up, the two of us not fishing (there were four in all, two fishing, two not) started to wander along the waterline and the surrounding rocks.  I found little snails clinging to the rocks which were tidally submerged and the other person found little purple flowers growing in the sand between the dry rocks.

Finally, as we were leaving, a pelican (dubbed 'Percival') swam by.

A great start to the new year!

An Oldie but a .......Goodie..??

A while ago ( and it was a while ago, when I first started using the 206 as my go-to machine) I made this skirt.

 I liked it, even if it was a little odd because I made it up as I went.......wrong usually!  First time I just stitched the purple broadcloth pieces together and I couldn't get into it so I found some garish quilting material and made pleated side panels and matching waist-band.  I liked it, it was colourful and I love colourful (think Freddie Mercury, Shirley Strachan, Elton John...) but sadly almost everyone else was stuck for something nice to say about it.  I suddenly decided yesterday, what the heck, I was going to wear it out anyway.  So being me, instead of pairing it with plain top and shoes I created this outfit:

Yes I know, just laugh quietly will you?

We are forecast more warm weather this coming week but here are some pictures I took the week before last.

Below are some images of the three 'colourful' mentioned above, in some of their more interesting costumes.

From 'It's A Hard Life', one of my favourite Queen's.

One of Shirl's more interesting, if not better clad, costumes.

And I'm off for another bout of tidying up.....ooohhhh I hate it!