Bardsey Island apple

I'm very proud of teh fact that my young Bardsey Island apple has produced some fruits this year, only its second year of being here. This tree is a grafted cutting from the original tree on Bardsey Island in Wales; I'm really looking forward to trying it soon, it looks a really lovely apple - will report back. Just for good measure, a picture too of a couple of the the quinces my tree is producing in abundance this year, very pleased with that - top pic :)

Cider apples

These are looking good in the garden at the moment; the Sops in Wine and the Yarlington Mill are both cider appples, the latter being a very local bittersweet variety. The large red crab apples are Wisley, the size of a good cooking apple, with pink flesh most of the way through. The John Downie's fruits are some of the most stunning in the apple world, for shape and colour.

Shore

Time to blow teh cobwebs away, so meandered down to West Bexington this afternoon.Big sky, angry sea, breaking waves - just what I needed..........

The times they are a-changin'.............

Huge upheaval and changes here with me - my marriage has broken up, and I'm striking out on my own, starting over..........
Everything is very amicable at the moment, and I have lots of support from friends too.
So, read on, dear reader, watch this space and follow how I get on with whatever lies ahead............. stick with me, should be interesting!

x

Postcard from Scotland............

Dear all,

Having a lovely time up in scotland, very relaxing. Weather has been more than kind :) Enjoying seeing hills and mountains again, didn;t realise how much I;d missed them. No pictures for now , as I'm not on my onw computer at the moment, but will post some when I can. Had the most wonderful day trip to Arran and fell in love with the palce totally; it's even got its own brewery. There will be moe posts about a little purple caravan too no doubt lol. I spent a few days up in Perthshire with a firend; first time I'd been there, it's a beautiful part of the country, and she and her family were the eprfect hosts. Now down In Lanarkshire for a week, catching up with old school friends.........Edingburgh on the way through was horrendously busy, but brought back so many memories....
Getting a good lot of knitting done too, and have invested in a Shetland cobweb shawl kit form Kamiesons. Will put details and pics on Figheade when I get back.
Off outside in a minute with a beer and the Scotsman crossword. Hope all are well, another update soon I hope :)

xx

So.........what happened today then?

It's been a busy old day here; main thing is my holiday - I'm off tomorrow for 10 days to Scotland, on my own, for some much needed R&R :) I'll be taking the laptop, so will be on here still, but may not be able to post any/many pics until I get the problem sorted out (I'm on the main PC at the moment)
So, today was and still is being spent runnibng around chasing my tail - shopping for food for the hoardes while I'm away, making lists if vet/doctor etc numbers, buying new knickers (lol - having dyed my best Sloggis purple, now matching teh stairwell exactly.......), packing and trying to find everything I need and want to take. I'm off at 5.30 am.
However, quite importantly we managed anotehr tip run, where I couldn;t resist a bag of wool - a good number of new balls of Jaeger, plus a lot of odds and bits, all very nice wool and useful; even enough of teh brown for a pair of socks to knit on the train tomorrow :))

Hope everyone here is well, I'll try and pop in daily, and let you know what I'm up to (mostly ;) lol )

The perfect band for me..........

Get a load of this lot !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9juX8IlkuHI&feature=related

Wow..............