Filling the gaps...

Having decided to keep I Blog, I fondly believed that I would be writing it frequently but, what with one thing and another, this just hasn't come about. I have even been mis-remembering what I've been up to this month, partly, I suspect, because I didn,t finish writing about out visit to North Wales. This, I must remedy, even though the visit was over a month ago.

This is a picture I took of Snowdon from the Caernarfon end of Lake Padarn: it was a beautiful evening and everything was so clear.

 
This photograph was taken from the Lake Padarn railway looking towards the Dinorwig Slate Quarries, now an underground hydro-electic power station http://www.electricmountain.co.uk/ We went on the tour of this phenomenon and it was a truely unique experience.

Another memorable day was spent on the Welsh Highland Railway http://www.whr.co.uk/ travelling between Caernarfon and Porthmadoc...

This was taken at one of the stops enroute. It all seems a long time ago now. I managed to make a video of the train journey; if only I could work out how to do something with it other than watching it on the camcorder...ah well, eventually..

Obviously, we saw loads of sheep....

.....of which this is one spotted as we were leaving the Snowdonia area.

May Bank holiday was spent enjoying my Grandma role - some of the time, anyway because The Archaeologist had entered and trained for the Bristol 10k run. I felt he deserved the support he had worked so hard for, so I took off the Grandma hat and put the Support Party one on instead. 

He managed it in a very creditable 61mins; very good for his first attempt at this kind of an event, especially when he only began running in earnest in August 2012.

On 8 May, I attended my first meeting as a member of the Knitting and Crochet Guild Board of Directors. http://www.kcguild.org.uk/ I have been given the task of developing an education strategy and also, pick up any other jobs I am able to do as there is just too much that requires attention for any of us to stick to one area. I am a very devoted knitter - I have been knitting since I was five years old and I taught myself to crochet at some stage, although I can't remember when: I am keen to see the Guild prosper.

The 9 May saw me in Salisbury at the shop/studio, Born to Knit, but I have already written about this.

I know I've alread written a bit about my trip to Cheshire as well but didn't get as far as uploading any pictures of Fiona's garden: here they are, taken when the sun disappeared, unfortunately. It is a lovely garden and comes complete with ducks...

However, it had rained so much everything became a little boggy...not that the ducks minded.....and finally...

.....the studio, where we spent our time.

Finally, the last week of the month and I was a-Grandma-ing again, this time at our home with both granddaughter and daughter staying for four whole days. Poor little granddaughter was suffering a bit with 'teeth' and a cold/cough but it didn't stop her doing much and it was very special to have them both with me on my birthday.

Time has caught up with me again, so more another day....