24th September, 2017....A lovely end to a literary week!

Up and about early today as it was another precious day off! Leaving Frankie behind, we set off for morning tea at Abbey Mill Café.....

...which was looking lovely on this calm, autumnal morning.....

.........the new Jackwolfskin is out!!!! Well, it is Autumn!!!

The SteveHillman camera has had some funny episodes this week...you have to ask him about the Abbey House Archway...but he particularly enjoyed photographing the local community garden awards at Barrow Town Hall, and as always, he can't resist snapping away at other things....

.......some of the legends linked to our locality.....

......and so sad to hear that The Four Groves has closed- some funding should be reserved whatever!

Along with many schools and colleges across the country, we have celebrated the life and work of Roald Dahl over the past few weeks, with assemblies and stories and other events...his love of the written word still inspires so many children (and adults) and every time I read one of his novels, I find something new and clever...and Steven Spielberg's version of The BFG is superb- Mark Rylance makes it...watched it again on Friday with my class!

I'm totally in support of those lobby groups fighting to keep local libraries open...reading is so important for everyone, but especially for the developing brains of children...I think I'd read the whole of Walney libraries fiction department before I was ten...Enid Blyton, Ruth Manning-Saunders, Alan Garner, Rosemary Sutcliffe... I loved everything!!! So THANKS to the forward thinking people organising this.....

....hopefully lots of people will support!

          P.S. Sending all our thoughts and good wishes to Mike Last Resort and his family!