Scavenger photo-hunt ~ MAY

 

Joining in with Kate and the other scavenger photo hunters.

 

For this months words and pictures I have been spending time looking back at holiday photographs.

 

It's been a really enjoyable way to spend some time and reminding me of happy times

 

There were so many I could have chosen but settled on these :-

 

 

TRIANGLE

 

 

 

 Wolferton Royal station in Norfolk.  This was the train station the Queen used to embark at to go to her royal residence at Sandringham.  It's not been in use since 1969 but the homeowners still allow visitors to stop by and take a look at their collection of memorabilia.  It's really interesting and you can read about it here.   No longer a train line but the original gates show lovely triangles.  

 

 

 

CIRCLE

 

 

A view of the countryside at harvest time, the corn rolls in the field.  

 

We were travelling along on a steam train at the time this was taken. 

 

DH was celebrating his 65th birthday.

 

 

 

SPLAT

 

 

I told hubby I was struggling to find something for this one.

 

His answer .... we saw birds making a nest from splats when we were in Wales, I bet no one will have a pic of that. 

 

I looked it up and yes, birds so make nests from splats.  Here's the swallows nest we saw with a little baby chick whilst we waited in the wooden shack for the steam train to pick us up at Dolgelau.

 

 

 

SQUARE

 

 

Samples of gansey patterns used on fishermans jumpers.

 

 Sheringham Museum had a great exhibition.

 

 

 

STAR

 

 

Stars were on the walkway along the promenade at Morecombe Bay with a statue of Eric Morecombe overlooking sayings of his.

 

 

 

OWN CHOICE

 

 

At the end of the day, a lovely walk along the beach watching the sunset.... perfect!

 

 

You can see what the other photo hunters have chosen here.

 

 

Love and blessings

 

Julie

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scavenger photo-hunt ~ APRIL

 

 

 

 

Joining in with Kate and the other scavengers hunters.

 

 

The prompts for April were :-

Happiness is ....

Makes me smile .....

Relaxing with .....

Busy with .....

Positive about ..... 

My own choice .....

 

 

It's a strange world we are living in right now.

 

There is no normal

 

Things change from day to day and I've had a few pictures i was going to show and then changed my mind

 

I am not allowed out

  

 I'm home shielding so no daily hours exercise unless its in the house or garden

 

 

Finally decided on these :-

 

 

Happiness is ....

 

 

During April it's been seeing my little magnolia tree flower for the first time.  

 

Last year a little rascal squirrel decided just as the flowers were starting to open that they would make a nice tasty treat and we didn't see them.  They were on the floor when we got up one morning all chewed up.  With the flowering time being so short its been a long wait for this years blooms and it's been lovely to sit outside in the recent warm sunshine, enjoy the birds which have been so very vocal and watch these beauties open up over a few days in their full glory.

 

 

 

Makes me smile .....

 

 

It's unheard of to be the end of April and my camellias still have lots of flowers on them. 

They've given me a smile every morning as I open the kitchen blind and look out of the window into the garden.

 

 

 

 

Relaxing with .....

 

Midge our cat. 

Late starts, a cup of tea in bed to start the day.
I'm reading and he's cuddled up next to me dreaming with the sunshine streaming in through the window.

 

 

 

 

Busy with .....

 

Drinking lots of tea and doing more than a little baking to keep busy

 

Fruit scones with jam and cream

 

Cheese scones and a Victoria sandwich filled with lemon curd.

 

 

 

Positive about ..... 

This is the positivity of my 8 year old granddaughter to keep us going and hope for better things to come

She sent me a card with a drawing of the sunset at the beach from where we were last October

"We'll be here again" she has written with the smiley face

 

The diamond dome she mentions on the right hand side is the amusement arcade we had fun in a few times.
 

 

The other side was the bit that brought the tears ......

 

 

and yes, I am missing her very badly too. 

 

We've been having video calls and trying to make it fun when we chat.  Seeing her smiling face really is a tonic.

 

 

 

 

My own choice .....

 

 

 

 This is a metal sign a friend bought me some time ago.

 

  It hangs in my conservatory and is quite apt at the moment. 

 

It reads ... "If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need"

 

(of course it could also say plenty of stash to knit and sew with... which I do have!)

 

 

 

If you don't know about the Scavenger Photo Hunt, go along to Kate's blog and find out more. She posts prompts at the beginning of the month and it's up to you to find pictures that fit.  It can be a recent snap or an old one from the archives.

 

  It's fun, why not give it a go.

 

 

 

Take care everyone, stay safe

 

 

love and blessings

 

Julie

 

 

 

Scavenger Photo Hunt - MARCH

Joining in with  Kate at I live, I love, I craft, I am Me 

 

Like  many of the photo hunters this time, I wasn't going to take part with everything that is going on.   

 

Reading the other blogs and seeing their pictures, I decided I would, if a little late.

 

Birthday

 

Celebratory bunny I made a couple of years ago for a friends 65th birthday 

 

 

 

Jazzy

 

A spot of jazz being played on the river

 

 
 

Flag

 

 

Exhibition from the Leicester Tigers Regiment

 

 

 

 

Three

 

 

It would have been my late dads birthday next Wednesday April 1st and this one came up in the archive when looking.  Here he is with 2 of his chums, taken about 1959.  Dads the middle one.

Happy Birthday dad x

 

 

 

Cushion

 

Gift from my granddaughter Isabelle

 

 

My own choice

Meet Alfie, my granddaughters best friend, he's enjoying a little facetime chat with nanny but missing his cuddles!

 

 

 

Take care all, stay safe

 

love and blessings

 

Julie  

 

 

 

p.s. I'm too late to add my name to the link up, but you can visit Kate's blog to see who else has taken part for March

 

 

 

Scavenger Photo-hunt FEBRUARY

Joining in with  Kate at I live, I love, I craft, I am Me 

 

February's words were:-
 

Heart/s

 
A charity close to our hearts.
Even more so now as its on all the literature given to us in preparation for DH's heart op next month (fingers crossed it goes ahead this time)
 

 Repair

One from the archives - DS many years ago.
 

Send for the AA if your vehicle needs repairing.

He is in fact the owner of a repair/service garage so all that practice paid off

 

 

Tail

Another very old one

 

The cushion says it all .... "In a cats eye, all things belong to a cats"

You can tell a lot from the swish of a cats tail

  

Key
I bought this card for Valentine's Day for DH a few years ago.

 He loved it and asked for the same one each year, so it is recycled each February
 

When you see a lock ....  

 

there must be a KEY, this one is found inside the envelope

 

 

 

Knot

An exhibition in the museum at Sheringham, Norfolk

Taken on a beach holiday 2017 

 

My own choice



This years amaryllis in flower.
Only two flowers this time?

Visit Kate's blog to see this months link-up and find out what other hunters have found for the words.


Love and blessings

Julie

p.s welcome to the new visitors and commenters
 

Scavenger Photo-hunt - JANUARY

The last Friday of the month, that means it's time for a Scavenger photo-hunt

Joining in with  Kate at I live, I love, I craft, I am Me

 

Quick explanation for those who would like to join or a reminder for those who already play.

Our scavenger hunt goes like this ...

 

A word to inspire a photo

the photo inspires words

it can be a new image

or one from the archives

Try to think 'outside the box'

It is only a game

and we do it for fun,

see you at the end of the month 

with all your photos and stories xxxx 

(taken from Kate's blog)

  

 

Lost/Found 

 

 

My current read 

 

Spotted this at the library and as it fitted the words this month, I thought I'd give it a go.  Serendipitous?

 

 

 

Print/s

 

 

A beautiful handmade lino print Christmas card 2019 made and sent to me by Christine

 

 

 

Lunch

 

 

Two slices of plastic toast -

sugar free, fat free, calorie free AND ...

it's the tastiest lunch ever when you are playing with a little person  

 

 

 

Starts with M ....

 

 

A name .... (pretty rubbish and boring photo)

 

It's better if I show you where it's printed, it's the name on my bicycle

 

 

 

 

ENDS with T....

 

 

Sweet ..... the toffee penny is always one of the last left in our Christmas chocolate box.

What gets left in yours?

 

 

 

 

 My own choice

 

 Quiet contemplation time at the monastary

 

 

 

The link-up page can be found at Kate's to see what other scavengers have come up with.

 

 Why not join in next month

 

Love and blessings

 

Julie