Showing posts with label BBQ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBQ. Show all posts

Saturday, 3 May 2014

Lazing on a sunny afternoon

Hello everyone, and here we are in the UK on another Bank Holiday weekend - and the sun is shining!

Time for long cool glasses of lemonade...


Admiring the daisies on the lawn...






and the cheery dandelions,,,



I love the dandelions when they have gone to seed and turned into "dandelion clocks"...


there is time for some crochet...


and it has officially been deemed that it is time to get the garden chairs, table and parasol out.  So I am sitting writing this post in the garden watching DH sorting out the BBQ!

Enjoy this May Day weekend everyone!

Helenxx

Sunday, 16 March 2014

Portals into the Past...

Good afternoon everyone - and what a great weekend it has been.  Decent weather, albeit a bit breezy and chilly, family round for a lovely dinner yesterday, and a BBQ planned for later this afternoon (eldest sons having mowed the lawns and tidied up the garden in readiness).  It was quite an early start for a Sunday as we were up at 5.45 to watch the first Formula 1 Grand Prix of the 2014 season, quite a race, with our favourite driver coming in 7th place.

With the blue skies we are having I am once more transported in my mind's eye back to beautiful Spain, so thought I would share a set of photos I took of doorways/entrance ways whilst on our recent holiday in Al Andalus...

Cordoba...







Granada...










I find it amazing to think of how many people have walked or looked through these entrances, what tales these buildings could tell if they could speak...

Helenxx

Sunday, 9 September 2012

Simple Saturday

Well, isnt the weather glorious here in the UK at the moment?  Yes, I know its all happening as the kids return to school, but even so it is grand having super weather on a weekend!

So DH and I decided to make the very most of it yesterday by having a Simple Saturday.

First off we nipped into the city to do some quick shopping.  After dropping off the bags we popped on our walking shoes and headed off to our local outwoods - a ten minute drive and we are into some of the most beautiful countryside.  Off we headed down this enchanting pathway




I loved looking up through the leaf canopy at the blue Indian Summer sky


This little fellow came up to greet us, reminding us that the winter festival beginning with the letter C (cant bring myself to mention the word itself yet, just a bit too early!!) is beginiing to loom on the horizon


From a clearing in the forest we could see the local farmer hard at work gathering in the harvest


More lovely views from the clearing


After all this walking, we headed home for a BBQ.  DH was kind enough to sort that out while I sat on the swing seat leafing through this new magazine


Its a lovely new mag, from the publishers of Mollie Makes.  I had a super leisurely read, made all the better knowing that I wasnt cooking the tea!!

We sat out until late, making a bonfire with some offcuts of wood we had, watching the night sky, drinking apple and cinnamon tea - all in all a lovely, relaxing, simple Saturday.

Hoping to keep today simple too!

Helenxx