It's Friday so I'm joining in with Amy at Love Made my Home for this week's Five on Friday. Click on the link at the bottom of this post to find others who are joining in too.
First I want to say a quick thank you for all your lovely comments on my last two posts about walks in the Manifold Valley.
Below are five random happenings since we last met for Five on Friday.
First I want to say a quick thank you for all your lovely comments on my last two posts about walks in the Manifold Valley.
Below are five random happenings since we last met for Five on Friday.
1. Easter happened, the clocks sprang forward, we had sunshine for one day, a little bit of tidying in the garden was achieved and then Storm Katie appeared here in the UK. Chocolate eggs and hot cross buns were consumed. I read a couple of books by two of my favourite authors over the last week because there seemed very little I wanted to watch on television. Elly Griffiths's latest Ruth Galloway novel 'The Woman in Blue' and as it happens the story was set around Easter in Walsingham in Norfolk and was as good and readable as ever. I then moved on to the latest Isobel Dalhousie novel by Alexander McCall Smith called 'The Novel Habits of Happiness' I always enjoy these gentle and thoughful books, which are set in Edinburgh.
2. Walking - we walked in both the Manifold Valley (see my last two posts) and at Dimingsdale in North Staffordshire where I took the photos above.
3. Homemade food - we made a cauliflower and butternut squash curry and some coriander naan bread to go with it and it was very tasty. It took longer to prepare and assemble the ingredients than it did to cook the dish and the bread was lighter far less salty than the naan bread bought from the supermarket.
4. Pretty things - in the shop at Middleport Pottery. We walked around the lake at Westport and then down the canal to the pottery. Much had changed there. The comfy sofas in the cafe where we liked to sit had gone and there is now a charge to enter the Visitor Centre. The wares in the shop are just as lovely though and free to peek at and admire if not to buy.
5. Birds and Animals - we've seen lots of wildlife on our ventures out and about. Above sheep and lambs in the fields at Alstonefield, geese on Westport lake, a brown rat on the bird table at Westport Lake, cockerel and hens and a dove at Boscobel House in Shropshire where we were yesterday. Boscobel will probably be the subject of my next post.
All for now. Have a lovely weekend everyone.
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