It was Half- term last week....

     .....so we went to spend a couple of days with Paul and Issy in their little house in Malvern....

      ....its a pretty little house, in a pretty little road with the hills are just behind....so we walked with the dog.... had a look round Worcester museum....

            ..... and took a drive to Ledbury.....

      ....the corn exchange...reminding me of "Far from the Madding crowd"....one of my favourite books I have re-read recently.....

      .....its a little town full of interesting buildings and narrow twisty little lanes....

          ......the surprisingly large church and high steeple overlooks all that goes on in the town.....

          ...and it has unusual and stunning stained glass windows too....

The first frost of the winter.....

     .....appeared last night, leaving leafy patterns all over the car and garage roofs.

     However, once the sun came out we were gifted with a most beautiful day.....so, I did my washing, in my new birthday present machine, and headed off out to buy some more pansies to plant up in my back-yard.... seeing as this sharp frost would soon finish off my summer bedding plants.

    But the park was as far as I got, I left my car in a supermarket car park and went to explore  and enjoy the sunshine....kicking myself for not thinking to bring a hot drink and a picnic with me,

             It is a lovely little park, full of doggy- walkers and their dogs, many squirrels, pine cones and falling leaves.... very pretty in the late sunshine.
    Wandered back to my car and bought myself some new tops ready for our holiday.... NEXT WEEK....that has come round so fast....and I still haven't got my pansy plants....ah well, there's always tomorrow.....

A weekend at Pete's flat....

    

 ......a beautiful sunset through the leaves of the huge tree that is by the room window, blocking out the view of the flats opposite, but giving a birds eye view of pigeons, squirrels and even a noisy Jay.....

           .....of course we went here....

.....for our Comte cheese and Darsh's Malaysian curry....

     .....rain, lots of it.....but I walked from London bridge to to Tower bridge....and back....in the dark and with dozens of other tourists....had my supper in Leons by the market.... 

....Sunday morning...

                .....where else, but one of my favourite streets.

     It was just too busy for me and it was impossible to enjoy walking along the front of the stalls.  Headed into the little and very charming shops behind the flower stalls, so busy, we didn't stay long.
The last time I walked there it was just Sara and I, it wasn't a Sunday and we stopped for drinks in that pretty little cafe, we had the street virtually to ourselves....ruined it was, with all those people shoving their way into my precious memories,

       Visited, without pictures, the Jessie Chorley shop.  I love her beautiful stitches on her blog and Instagram and we have admired her shop many times before.
   Sara tells me "its beautiful but you could make this stuff mum".    I wish!!
       I wish I had her skill and eye for creating such beauty.  The lovely lady herself was there, sewing (what else) behind the counter of her shop. "Come and join in one of my workshops" she said as she tucked her leaflet into my bag.  I bought myself her book, (which I had read before I reached home!) and a small kit to sew for myself, I have looked at it, stroked it and rewrapped it, planning to do a bit...lots... of practice before my needle gets near her lovely fabric.

(Now this going to ruin my diary-blog, this post is from 2 weeks previous and has been hiding in my drafts cos I forgot to press publish).

The view from the top of my lane.....

....I suppose it is all going to go.....

            ......now that planning permission has been granted......

                        .....for that 750 houses.....

Fradley Junction.....

....We took a picnic, and the smart car and went for an afternoon of sunshine out on the canal bank...

 

              .....watching the narrow boats squeezing in and out of the locks....

        ......listening to the late bird-song and the sighs of falling leaves....

        .....squinting into the bright afternoon sun.....
     

                   .....we even sat outside for our afternoon tea....

            ...........my plan for the day was to cut the grass, plant my spring bulbs and refill my pots for winter....but I guess there is always tomorrow.