Monthly catch up - November 25

So I thought it would be nice to post monthly of the fun things that happen in my world, starting with November.

To start the month I joined my first ever group walk and asked a friend to come along for moral support. She has suffered in the past from depression and anxiety but love to be outdoors.  She said she would like to learn to knit and create a mood blanket that they said would mainly be all black

Whilst on the walk as always I took a variety of pictures, but the group stopped for everyone to catch up.  While we waited we stood on a bridge, I took a picture one way

Then the otherway. To them initially they found this image much more interesting with the buildings.

Until I shared the autumnal image with them and they were amazed at just how much colour there was.

I would love to which of the two images you prefer?

 

I also decided to do something completly different with my bathroom which a few years ago I painted a light blue.  But to me the room just felt cold.  So I decided not to "conform" to the painting every wall the same colour and started with the window and then decided to do blocks of colour.

 

The colour was specifically mixed by a local paint company and it is incredible when you see the same paint with different light around the room how the colour changes. 

I really like the finished effect. 

Then to for some much needed fresh air I headed to visit my favourite people for a lovely family walk. 

In the evening I was honoured to see Hamza wearing the cowl I had gifted in his winter edition of his incredible television called Hidden Wild Isles, based in the UK.

 

The second weekend of the month I had my first train journey in a long time, heading down to Weston Super Mare to meet a good friend.

 

 

 

Weston is a place I know well, as over four decades ago I went to college here.  Growing up I came here on days out.  To be honest the town has not really changed and the coastline will not, along with people always saying they never see the tide in!

 

We had such a good catch up, my friend is a very talented knitting making mainly complicated garments.  It was so lovely to just sit and knit and chat for ages in the full sunshine, we were so blessed with the weather.

 

I pointed out that as a solo knitter it is not always easy to get good pictures so she so kindly took a whole range of different pictures for me, suggesting different places to be with different viewpoints.

 

 

Another absolute great thing about the day, was she also unlike many people I know just loves spending ages on a beach looking at the amazing variety of pebbles for fossils and sea glass.  It was just such  a joy.

Whilst I love all sorts of weather, it is hard to beat the light generated from the sun and the colours that just radiate when it shines.

 I could happily have sat here for ages, but sadly I had a train to catch back home.

Weekend three saw the tail end of basically a weeks worth of rain, which did not effect me massively working indoors in the week.  

The beauty to me of rain is seeing it on the flowers in the garden.  I absolutely love macro close up shots where you can see so much detail. 

It is so lovely to take time to just go and explore the garden in the winter, often something, not something I do enough of.  To discover the seeds that are on the back a bracken that had grown out of a pot was such a joy. 

I do love the Hellabore plant and really should get some more, the flowers come in so many colours and are so delicate and pretty.      

 

 

 

It is incredible what you can do with an iPhone phone camer can do now, as all the snail pictures where taken on one.  It was also fun seeing this tiny snail just slowly working it's way down the stem of the plant. 

 

 

I am the proud owner of a gorgeous cat called Luna and I have great pleasure in taking her out in a backpack.  She just happily sits or lies in the carrier and just takes in the world around her.

 

 

Being mid November the autumn colours are now turning many lovely shades of brown.

 

 

On my walk I always checked out the converted phone box, now a book swap, such a great idea.

 

 

This picture book thatched cottage is next to the local church, it has been for sale for many many months, it would be so interesting to have a sneak inside.

 

 

I often head down a lovely country lane to get my countryside fix and think how nice it would be to live in this lovely little cul-de-sac.

For my fourth weekend of this month, I have no photographs to share as I have currently started to study a City & Guilds Level 4 course in Hand Knitting with School of Stitch Textiles.

It is a two-year distance learning course equivalent to a Higher National Certificate, although within the introduction it states the course can be harder than a textile degree, which as a person who also has one of these I can easily see this.  

I shall be sharing my progress through the course here and really look forward to challenging myself far more in the creative world that is hand knitting. 

Yorkshire - Part Six Malham Cove, Linton Falls and Grassington village

Much like Brimham Rocks Malham Cove is a place I have visited previously in 2021 and last year on my visit to Yorkshire.

Again the history and sheer scale of the rocks is not something I see in my local area of the Cotswolds and as someone who just loves huge open spaces of uncluttered nature it is just perfect. 

In 2021 I was so blessed to witness a double rainbow above the cove 

 

In 2021 I did venture to the edge of the cove, which was not easy as the rocks have huge gaps in between and I am not a super fan of heights, although over the years have got alot better.

 

But wow seeing the view stretching out with the lush green fields is just priceless to me. 

So you have an option of different walks, this years walk was just the short one up to the cove, up and back.

Previously I did do the longer walk  over to Janet's Foss Waterfall along the top and round.

 Clouds, big skys wow isn't nature just the best.

 For a sense of scale this guy was at the base of for a fellow rock climber.

Janet's Waterfall was beautiful if not a tad chilly to swim in which some people did. 

I just love the picture of the lamppost against the building with the red postbox in the wall.

Malham Cove is such an impressive place, with just the sheer scale of it. 

I did not personally count how many steps up there were to get to the top, but on the return journey back down a group of school children were doing just that, and not at all out of breath!. 

The gaps in between the huge stones are deceptive though as you do not know just how far down they go. 

I particularly loved this rock, to me it just looked like a dinosaur skeleton. 

Within a barn, there is really interesting information all about the history of the area.  Black and white images are always so much more powerful I think. 

Not far from Malham Cove is Linton Falls, another glorious place to visit.  

Just a short walk from Grassington Village.  I'm sure the river when it has had a lot of rain, would be so impressive to watch and listen to.

I could happily sit and knit and watch the world go by for a long time at a place like this. 

I have always been a huge fan of All Creatures Great and Small, the television show.

Not only from the storyline, but the massive variety of brilliant knitwear that the cast wear.  But the setting the show is filmed in within Yorkshire. 

The village of Grassington is one of the locations. 

The cafe that stopped and had a cuppa also did the most amazing cake. 

 This is the end of my Yorkshire posts, I do hope you enjoyed them.