Where is our snow?

After getting excited about sledging and snowmen the Lake District didn't get a lot of snow again. Maybe next time?

Today we went through to Penrith so I took some pictures as we passed Skiddaw and Bassenthwaite and then some more pictures on the return route.
(For non UK readers Penrith is a market town, Skiddaw is a mountain and Bassenthwaite is a lake in the Lake District.)


Everything is looking spectacular at the moment------- but boy is it cold!

Sandown Entries

Not brilliant pictures but they give the general idea :o)
Sandown is a long way from the Lake District so I won't be able to see them hanging. A couple of people on the BQL list have kindly promised to send me some photographs.


This is my entry for the theme competition. I have called it ring-a-roses. Usually I title my quilts when they are finished. This one I thought of the title and meant to do an applique one showing children playing ring-a-roses. Somewhere along the line it changed into a wholecloth with trapunto and painted roses!

The next is my entry for the batik competition and the one below is my Hoffman Challenge entry.
(I was quite pleased with the striped binding on the latter as it used up every last scrap of the fabric to make it.)

Still no rain.

The river is getting quite low and some of the bedrock is getting exposed now. Some parts of the country have had storms and flash floods recently. Conversely, the Lake District has seen little rain and is getting very parched and the grass is getting scorched.

We have lived in this house for eighteen years this weekend and this is the first time we have seen these flowers growing in the water. I don't know their name yet. They look like an oxalis or geranium flower? They are growing quite profusely along the other bank too.

If you click on the picture you will get a bigger version.
Anyone recognise them?


I have identified it as Water-crowfoot (Ranunculus aquatilis)

It apparently grows in slow streams and ponds. Guess that shows how dry it is, as the river Cocker is reputedly the fastest flowing river in England! It is obviously ambling along slowly enough for this flower to put on a show.

Home town.

I was just surfing around and came across this video of my home town of Cockermouth. Hope the link works!

I know that people are beginning to plan their visit to Woolfest for this year. Perhaps this will give them a taste of what else there is of interest in town.

Wordsworth House (birthplace of William Wordsworth) has really come to life with the recent overhaul by the National Trust. The town will be bright with daffodils everywhere soon!