Bit of a cheat:
My photo of Derwentwater and added a 'Cubist' style
First time playing around with the 'style' edit tool - I quite like it 💜
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple

Heard first cuckoo today in Buttermere 🐦🎵

[Video doesn't capture cuckoo - view and sound of wind on Dodd, below Red Pike]

When you swim outside thro the winter even your duck needs a woolly hat...and your own gin!
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple

It was absolutely gorgeous...and so lovely to swim in sunshine brfore the rain arrived this afternoon

Didn't have a thermometer with me, but it felt quite comfortable. Bass and Derwentwater are always the 'warmer' lakes and I wore my shorty as I wanted to stay in longer
It was mirror calm and I felt slightly guilty making ripples! Here's the before entry pic...

👏😂

Bassenthwaite bliss 🏊‍♀️💙💦

I will try harder, I promise...
For now, this is my best offer for #WeekPforPurple
Sylvie doing her daily inspection of the cupboard in the campervan!
(The 'purple' is the tea towel wrapping the hot chocolate maker)
#AlphabetChallenge

Oh no! On Friday, I had lunch with my brother in The Purple Carrot, in Malton, and didn't take a photo 🤦‍♀️
Missed opportunity for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple🥕💜 😂

Wow 😍

Finishing #WeekOforOld with this vintage poster
I'd definitely have been tempted by the 'cup smashing'
But not sure if being 'an efficient brass band' is really a compliment!?!
#AlphabetChallenge

Stained glass artwork featuring a rural scene with fields and hills and two figures in the foreground riding a tandem bike on a track as the sun rises

Harriet Love, contemporary stained glass artist #Womensart #Sunday

Glad you liked my photo of the old boats at Salen on the Isle of Mull 😊

Time travel in Aidensfield (aka Goathland) and memories of watching Heartbeat on Sunday evenings #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld

It is so cute 😍

Standing cat with arched back facing right created with vertical strips of wood with peeling paint, all against a light blue background

'Scaredy Cat' by Cornish artist Kirsty Elson who trawls the beaches of her home collecting driftwood as the raw materials for her artworks #WomensArt

Postbox adoption!?!
If you've ever wanted to provide a loving home for a 'retired' postbox, here's your opportunity...
Cellar Antiques in Hawes have quite a selection, ranging from £450 to £850
Nearly tempted, but they are soooo heavy 📮
#postboxsaturday
Also #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld

This might be my most favourite topper ever! #postboxsaturday
📷 Pickering

Aha, just realised it was last week 😊

Gorgeous 😍
Cloudy here

Riding the Scarborough Spa Cliff Lift - opened in 1875, it was Britain's First Funicular Railway
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld

#fingerpostfriday (without the post!) where the Cleveland Way passes the Scarborough Spa hotel

Print with side view of three colourful beach huts with wooden steps in a line on sand

'Beach huts', wax batik on cotton by contemporary batik artist Caryl Challis #WomensArt

Back in the day...when milk travelled by train #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld
📷 North Yorkshire Moors Railway

Sadly, there is no longer a postbox at the Post Office - it's now moved a wee bit further down the street, but there's still a nice VR wallbox at the other end of the village

...and here's a more recent pic from our visit to the oldest Post Office
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld

Roof tiles and chimneys in the old part of Robin Hoods Bay
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld

Today's letter for #AlphabetSwimmming was F

F for Fail !!!

A local recommendation was Falling Foss, but the descent was treacherous and there was v little water, so we abandoned. There will be other days and swims - it's always important to know when to say 'no' and turn back 🏊‍♀️💦

A fab day riding steam trains on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway

First opened in 1836 as the Whitby and Pickering Railway, it'll be celebrating its 190th anniversary next month 🚂🚃🚃🎂
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOld

Serendipity 💙