28th September, 2013...Lovely sunny Saturday!

Unusually, there wasn't an SH Photography wedding today(there was yesterday, and Abbey House Wedding fair tomorrow!)so we actually made it to the Abbey! Beautiful Autumnal weather, and set fair for the whole weekend!

 

As it was lunchtime, Frankie celebrated with his customary lemonade and sausage bun, courtesy of Abbey Mill Café, and what a sausage bun it was!

 

 

 

Lovely autumn colours down here already, and the leaves are beginning to fall too!

 

 

 

 

Reading a really good book at the moment, called 'The Pinecone' by Jenny Uglow ,which is the true story of a Cumbrian woman who built a church in the village of Wreay. Fascinating stuff!

 

 

It's that time of year again when the height of the sun makes lovely long shadows, but also allows dank, hidden corners!

 

Bulls were in a mellow mood today too...good job!

 

 

 

We thought we would take the old monk's path home today... a very pleasant walk!

 

 

Will someone PLEASE claim these glasses from How Tun Wood...it's driving Frankie mad seeing them there every night!!

 

Don't forget to show your face at the Abbey House Wedding Fair tomorrow... especially Mr. Neil!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8th September, 2013...Good old British rain again!

A day of sunshine and showers...time to get the wellies and waterproof coats out again. Frank has started at his new school, and I am very happy to be back at my old one...though it has a fresh, new feel this term! Brill!

 

 

It was very quiet down here at 3.30pm...most people had packed up at gone home. We did try a new place for lunch today, still quite near the Abbey. Barrow Golf Club are running their club house as a café/bar , open to the public, catering by Hartley's of Dalton, so we gave it a try...and it was excellent and very good value. Lets hope this new venture gets off the ground. Can't beat a cup of coffee and a bacon bun (or is it roll) at the Abbey Mill Café though!!

 

 

A bit drippy and damp down here today, with lots of fruits ready to fall from trees...Frank is waiting to have his usual conker fest!

 

 

 

Happy Birthday on Wednesday to Rog, Neil and Matt... an auspicious day to have your birthday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

30th August, 2013.... turning cooler!!

August is nearly at an end (don't forget the Medieval Fayre tomorrow!), and a chilly wind was blowing down here this afternoon. Back to school next week!!

Frank's got his back to school face on... I'm quite looking forward to it!

 

Grass cutting down here today..sprucing the place up for tomorrow.

 

 

 

And all accompanied by the piper today...it was like walking through Glen Coe!!

 

 

There are a few hints that leaves are beginning their slow death........

.......and more and more brown, ploughed fields!

Interesting piece in the Evening Mail tonight about Little Mill, one of the water mills built by the Cistercians...I'm not quite sure where the remains are, but we'd love to walk along and photograph it for the blog.

We've got starling turf wars in our garden at the moment, and they are vicious. We have seven collared doves coming for food and drink, but the starlings attack them as well as each other!

 

 

Not very ZEN, our starlings!! (I'm reading Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now at the moment!!)

What a peaceful, pastoral scene... Furness Abbey!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25th/26th August, 2013...A scorching August Bank Holiday weekend!!

Frankie's birthday dawned warm and calm, with the sun beaming through his bedroom window. We went to the Abbey at lunchtime, and it was VERY BUSY which is excellent...no need to sit in bank holiday traffic jams when we live in Furness!

 

Frankie very happy to go into Abbey Mile Café for his usual lemonade, and come out with a birthday gift!! Many thanks to Jackie and staff... you made his day!

 

Lovely place for a power walk!

 

Tried to pick some of these for my classroom Autumn display, but they bit back!!

Thought we'd head over to Roa Island today, and do a bit of yacht watching..it was also very busy, but very pleasant in the warm sea breeze!

 

 

 

Again, why would you battle the traffic when you have all this on your doorstep! Frank's sister lived here for a while and she loved it. Frank has decided he'd quite like a second home here... as long as they've got high speed broad band obviously!!

 

 

We met Mr. Greenheartden down here..he was on a cycle tour of Barrow. The Green Heart Den, Marsh Street...that really is a place worth looking at, and right in the heart of Barrow too. Check it out!