Summer nearly here?

Well British summertime is here as the clocks went forward last night, but the weather's still pretty cold. Today it's been a day of sunshine and showers.

This week, and the last two days of my holiday absolutely flew over. It feels like since I've been back I've never been away from work as I've had a few long shifts, all pretty much nights. I don't mind nights as I get a lye in, but it means I get less done.

Today I went to Blyth beach with my husband, we had some chips in the local cafe. The cafe is very popular around here so I was expecting a lot. If I'm honest they were nice, but I think the ones in Amble are nicer, although Blyth does have free parking.

After our chips we went down to the beach even though it was raining. I took a few photos before heading back to the car.

Today's photo of the day is of a pretty empty Blyth beach. In the distance you can see the mouth of the river Blyth. I also liked the little sailing boat in the distance.

Last Sunday me and my husband went to Tynemouth, which is Newcastle's seaside village, it gets it's name because it's on the mouth of the river Tyne. It was a lovely spring day, warm and sunny with just a slight wind, and Tynemouth was packed with people. I think everyone in the north east had had the same idea, it took us 10 minutes to find a parking place for our car. Then we walked along and realised that Tynemouth's only chip shop had a huge queue. So we got some cashback from one of the shops and went down to the fish quay. It's only a 10 minute drive from Tynemouth and looks out onto the river Tyne. It was busy there as well, but we managed to buy some chips. We sat on a bench to eat them, and fed some to the gulls and pigeons. 

Sunday's photo of the day was Tynemouth beach, well the view from the cliff, it's a long way down to it.

Monday I spent getting jobs done ready for going back to work. I also visited my friend with the broken wrist. 9 weeks later and she can nearly make a fist, she's got a long way to go. 

Monday's photo is of fluffy white clouds, I've downloaded the new Carrot Weather app, and it told me that's what the weather was and it was right. 

Tuesday's photo after I finished work was of the view down to the River Wansbeck. I was surprosed and sad by how much rubbish is down there.

Wednesday's photo is of a Forsythia bush which grows across the lane from my house. It's a bush that always makes me think of easter, spring and my Grandad. Easter and spring as that's when it blooms, and my Grandad as he used to have one in his garden. 

Thursday's photo is of my sleeping fur baby Termie, I nearly forgot to take a photo and she was there. She always looks so peaceful and innocent when she sleeps. 

Friday's photo is of the view across to Ashington from my garden. 

Yesterday it was very windy here, my Carrot app said 25 mph. I attempted to show it blowing the fir trees about, but it didn't come out great. 

Nearly the end of my weeks holiday

I can't believe it's nearly the end of my weeks holiday already. In fact technically it's over as my working week starts on a  Sunday and the next two days are days off. This week has flown by and as ever I don't seem to have got nearly enough done.

The week has been cloudy, but mostly dry. It's been pleasant enough that I've made a start weeding my strawberry bed. I go for the slow approach of doing a little bit at a time. I've discovered I've got a lot more strawberry plants than I thought. I thought I had lost most of them in an escaped goat incident last year, but I actually have about 15 to 20. Most are still surrounded by weeds so I'm not positive of the number. Strawberries propagate themselves. I took Tuesday's photo whilst I was weeding. It's my cat surveying her kingdom.

The clouds were a real pain all week as Tuesday night produced the best display of the Northern Lights of the year. These are different lights in the sky caused by magnetic storms. It's something I've always wanted to see, and living in Northumberland something I should have a good chance of seeing. Unfortunately all I could see on Tuesday night was cloud.

Wednesday's photo is of my neighbours escaped chicken. In nice weather they quite often wander out to see what they can peck at.

Thursday's photo is of the insides of my husband's range rover engine. He's currently replacing the cylinder head on it. I'm starting to enjoy taking engine photos as you can get some nice patterns and different effects.

On Friday I went back to Amble with my dad, I took several different photos but this lovely baby seagull was my favourite .Friday was another cloudy day, and this time I managed to miss the solar eclipse because of it. 

Today's photo is of my cat sat on a fence in front of my house. I had started to walk down to the river to get a photo, although it was pretty cold. She was following me so I decided to get a shot of her instead.

My weekly photos of the day

Last Friday was pretty wet so me and my dad decided to try a new Weatherspoons in Blyth.

Wetherspoons is a pub chain here in the Uk which specialises in cheap food and drink. If I'm honest the food is similar in most of the ones I've tried, nice enough as it's cheap. They do offer some different beers and drinks though, not that I had any on a Friday afternoon, I stuck with tea.

The Weatherspoons I went to was a bit out of the ordinary interior wise, and I have to say we were both very impressed.The building itself is the old cinema, and it still has the grand foyer and sweeping staircase. From the bar you can even see the old auditorioum.

Friday's photo was of the old projector in the foyer, as you can see it's very impressive.

Saturday was quite cloudy and grey and the only place we went was to buy groceries, when it came to taking my photo of the day I decided to have a walk down towards my local river. 

Sunday was mother's day here in the UK, and I took my photo when visiting my mum to giver her, her present. 

She's a great mum and I love her very much.

On Monday it was again grey and cloudy, I spent most of the day catching up on some paperwork and doing some ppi claims. For inspiration for my photo of the day I decided to have a look in my garden. My garden is pretty windy and exposed, and the only thing reall growing is still my narcissus daffodils, they were also the only bright thing on a grey day.

Happy Mother's Day

Today is Mother's Day here in the UK, like many things we seem to do it on a different day to the rest of the world.

I'm lucky enough to still have my mum, and I've just been to see her. I gave her a box of chocolates and some home made drink. It was lovely to see her even if I do see her most weeks.

I think it's only as you get older that you really appreciate your mum, the sacrifices and the things they did to help make you the person you are today. I also think that as I've got older I've had more chance to get to know other people's mums, and it's made me realise how lucky I am for all the little things she's done and continues to do. I really do have a wonderful mum.

To all those mums out there I'd like to wish you a good day, whether your children are here, no longer her or have four legs :)

More photos and a change of plans

Today is absolutely chucking it down with rain, and I'm supposed to be going to a local village with my dad, but that won't be happening as we planned to go down to the river. It will now be really muddy, so we will have to change our plans.

We will still go out but we will have to go somewhere else instead.I'm not sure where maybe the lake or local shopping center, we will see.

At the start of the week the weather was better, and we even had a few spring days during which I got some jobs done in the garden.

Saturday's photo is of the green candle I used for my full moon money spell, I should say I'm not really into spells, but I saw this on the writing site I use. I've done it for a few months now, and the idea is you light a green candle at full moon and put money around it.Money you need should then come to you. Sometimes it seems to work, sometimes it doesn't.

Sunday's photo is of a fir cone or pine cone that I collected on the beach at Amble on Friday.What's strange about it is that there were no obvious trees around so I can only assume it had blown there or possibly an animal had moved it.

Monday's photo is of the grey clouds which came rolling over when I decided to go out into the garden, needless to say I never got there.

Tuesday was a lovely spring day, it was warm and sunny and there was a slight breeze. I spent some time weeding my strawberry bed although there is still lots to do.I was pleased to see that I had a daffodil flowering, well actually it's a narcissus as it's one of the small ones. This became my photo of the day, I love this photo as it's sunny and shows the blue sky and clouds. 

On Wednesday morning I was up early for work, the morning was icy and I was stood waiting for a friend to give me a lift. she was a couple of minutes late so I took the chance to take a photo of the lovely sunrise. I don't see many sunrises as I'm normally in bed so I was pleased to get a photo.

Thursday's photo is another macro one, this time of a Fiat Punto cylinder head. I think it's come out quite well, and my photos are improving.

Catching up with my photos March 2015

So I've been busy the last few days, mostly just with work and life.

I realised I am way behind with updating here with my daily photos, but don't worry I am still taking one each day.

So last Sunday's photo was of the night sky, I was trying to get one showing the sunset, but it was a bit too cloudy. 

On Monday after we had been shopping I persuaded my husband to take a detour so that I could take my photo, he headed towards the river Blyth. This was the result, the wooden staithes are for small boats to moor to.

Tuesday's photo is of my lucky Buddha, We bought him on holiday in Mallorca last year. He looks quite big here, but in reality he is only about 2 inches tall. I was trying different photo techniques for still life using different lighting.

Wednesday's photo is of my husband's dartboard, it lives in our bedroom as there's no where else to keep it in our flat. 

Thursday was World Book Day here in the Uk, as I covered in my last post. My favourite book is Wuthering Heights, and this  was my photo of the day.

On Friday I went to Amble with my dad, it was really windy and cold. We did get some nice photos though. We walked all the way around the pier, and looked out to near by Coquet Island. We also had a lovely cheese patty and chips.This photo of the baby seagull was my favourite id the ones I had took..

World Book Day in the Uk

Here in the Uk today is world book day, I know because of all the costumed children on my facebook page today.

Elsa from Frozen appears to be the favourite, although I didn't know that was a book.

I googled (well actually swag searched) world book day and discovered that the Uk holds it a month early on the first Thursday in March, in most of the rest of the world it's around the 23rd of April. The Uk chose a different day due to the Easter Holidays. So to me it's less of a world book day and more of a UK one :) But encouraging children to read is all good.

So my favourite book is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, closely followed by Captain Correllis Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres. I should add that while I read ebooks on my iPad I generally prefer the real thing. I've yet to start enjoying audio books :). I do like some film adaptations though :).

This is my old copy of Wuthering Heights, as you can see it's a reprint under her pen name Ellis Bell, all the Bronte sisters originally used pen names.

Last week of February 2015

Another week has gone by without me finding the time to post.

I've spent most of the week feeling ill, or working after I went back. I had a week off sick, for which I'm lucky enough to get full pay, apart from the fact most of the time was overtime so it will only be about 5 hours :)

In between I was trying to finish off the court paperwork for my husband's court case. It's all done and sent off for now. I'll share more details when I can.

I also went out twice with my dad as we missed last Friday, so on Tuesday we went to \morpeth with my mum, and yesterday just the two of us went back.

Saturday's photo was of my husband's new boat

Sunday's is of his Range Rover

Monday's is of my super fast yellow punto

Tuesday's photo a cool tree at Morpeth

The inside of my husband's boat

Thursday's is dusk

Friday's photo is ducks on the river Wansbeck at Morpeth

A close up of a boat fishing rod.