Showing posts with label Awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Awards. Show all posts

Wednesday, 14 February 2018

weekend away


We were awarded some certificates from British Cycling last weekend,for our achievements in the World Masters Games last April in New Zealand.

You only get this if you go to collect them....but you do get a free dinner ticket!!

It was testing weather to drive to and from Birmingham, spray, sleet showers..and the 100% prats driving at 80 mph without lights.....

Still,we had a good weekend away and stayed with friends on the way home.

 Monday morning we awoke to snow by the Solway Firth!


 A careful drive saw us to clear roads in Castle Douglas, where our usual coffee stop cafe was open..but the gallery and secondhand bookshop opposite this mural were closed.
 Next stop Carsphairn...




and then another twenty miles home past snowy fields.

Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Awards

Sunset from Court Cupboard, Blorenge on the left.

This is the view as I left the gallery yesterday, through the rainshowers that arrived just before I left.

I have been given an award! Thankyou, Hawthorn!!



Now I have to pass it on to others...a difficult choice indeed, so no complaints if I didn't choose you!!

1. A Devonshire Pottery A traditional slipware potter, who digs his own clay, makes beautiful jugs, sings, takes part in village productions and now shows us his hardworking days on video too.

2. Closed Sunday who tells us of life on an island in the Western Isles of Scotland from an incomers view

3.Gary's 3rd pottery blog..pots, cooking, humour...Mr.Versatility!!

4.Henhouse Pottery...farmer, mother, potter...the simple life is hard work!

5.Squash Blossom Farm....just inspiring!


There are so many more....

Now to add some random facts about myself... Ummmm....
1. I hate arguments

2. my left foot is half a size longer

3. I'm writing in English and listening to Radio Cymru in Welsh

4. I started my first garden when I was five

5. my family has been vegetarian for nearly 100 years, thanks to my grandmother, a fan of George Bernard Shaw, then a Theosophist and reader of Krishnamurti's writings all her life.

6. at my first school when I was three and a half they put the morning milk bottles, that had frozen and pushed their caps off...on the radiator to defrost....yeeeugh!!

7. I am going to finish the quilt I handpieced and half hand quilted in 1997/8.....honest!!