Today is the second and final link-up for this year’s SPHS and is hosted by the lovely Mary-Lou of Patio Postcards blog. Here are my remaining finds: 1: Path | Noticed in the Phoenix Garden 2: Peek-a-boo | The Brainy One inside a tree trunk at Holker Hall 3: Stairs | Hyde Park Corner Tube Station 5: Something that … Continue reading Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt 2022 | Final Link-Up | Photo Heavy
I’m continuing with the theme begun back in 2020 – an album title page and one layout per month. For August, I combined our two Road Trips onto a single page. I reused a design first used in April; patterned paper and embellishments are from Doodlebug Design's I Love Travel range.
A humble travelers notebook and journaling/filler cards from In a Creative Bubble have made completion of this year's Northern Road Trip quick and effective. I took the TN with me, but didn't write a single word of journaling while we were away; everything was added once home. I kept things simple and it all came together … Continue reading Northern Road Trip 2022 | The Completed Journal
Lake Windermere The plan had been to visit Hill Top, the former home of Beatrix Potter, but we arrived to discover that we should have booked and that the site was full. So we circled the carpark and then carried on a few more miles up the road to the Claife Viewing Station. Claife Viewing … Continue reading Northern Road Trip 2022 | Claife Viewing Station
Holker Hall The earliest records of Holker Hall on date back to the beginning of the sixteenth century. The Estate, found at Cark-in-Cartmel, has never been bought or sold but has passed by inheritance through just three families: the Prestons, the Lowthers and the Cavendishes, with each generation leaving its impressions, either by planning and … Continue reading Northern Road Trip 2022 | Holker Hall
🙂 Ulverston feels like home. The Cross Hoad This year, we timed our visit to coincide with the two significant birthdays of the-friend-who-is-like-my-brother and his lovely wife (who needs her own Blog Handle). The birthday gatherings meant that we had to share them with other friends and family, so this visit was a little different … Continue reading Northern Road Trip 2022 | Ulverston
It was another extremely hot week in London. We arrived home from our Northern Road TripI came down with a nasty throat infection and spent a day lolling aboutTemperatures in London rose again to the mid-thirtiesThe Boy and I went to Apsley House - more on that soonI lost a contact lens in my eye, … Continue reading Me on Monday | 15 August
I know that it sounds daft, but I really do feel my heart contract whenever we arrive back in Ulverston.
It was a week of sticky weather, a Slow Summer outing, hours on a motorway and being with people we love. The Boy and I went in search of London's most haunted house ... more on that soonThe Boy began work on his summer project - General Omar BradleyWe left London for our Northern Road … Continue reading Me on Monday | 8 August
Our Northern Road Trip to South Lakeland is fast approaching and I will be recording the days away in a travelers notebook. The finished TN will be very similar in style to last year's journal. All the journaling cards will be from In a Creative Bubble. I have added reminders here and there and trimmed … Continue reading The Travelers Notebook | Northern Road Trip 2022
This West London Life 