Thank you! ✨

Fridays were chippy days for us, & it really was great escape manoeuvres to get them! 😆

Ooh, shall have to set my mum on it - looks very much like the 1900s town shopping street buildings, so strong chance your grans place was in the Downton Abbey filming which is a nice claim to fame! There have been lots of changes at Beamish & now there's a whole 1950s bit I'm itching to visit...

🫖✨

Tiny inland township woes - we have chippies, but no seaside or lighthouses to bunk off to! I doubt they would have ever wrangled me into a classroom if I lived at the sea, I'd be too busy living my best mermaid life...🧜‍♀️

Ooh, & I thought mine were a bit fancy for having ground almonds in them instead of pin oatmeal! Shall have to give these ones a whirl! 🫖✨

Spooky thank you! 👻

Thank you - my meagre dignity took the biggest ding at least! 😆

Laughing in millennial - we used to jump the school back fence to go to the chippy & think we were naughty!

Hold on - your grans co op is one of the cafes? Which one? I adore Beamish! Haven't been since '21 when I stayed the night in some bonkers hotel dynamited out of a sea cliff with a tiny private pebble beach. The north is calling me! ✨

You'll adore it when you get there! It really is silliness that gets cars stranded in need of rescue (if you can tell the time you will be fine) & the refuge is actually quite nice for taking pics at & enjoying the view from too (near drowning not required to visit it!) ✨

Ooooh! Happy things to hopefully look forward to! ✨

Thank you! Sea buckthorn tastes lovely in jam - shall very much be keeping eyes peeled to find more tasty snacks with it in! ✨

🍰✨

Thank you kindly! ✨

Snaffle & scoff away please - a bit hotter for a bit longer in a normal oven should get them done. Thank you kindly, I'm trying to make myself write out half remembered recipes when I get them right before my goldfish memory forgets them - thumbprints are a northern classic for tea time treats! 🫖✨

Thank you - luckily have a good layer of lard to help bounce in these situations! Cake is self care indeed...😆🍰

Dave accepts both - the crown always fits! 😆👑🐾

Thank you kindly - canine cuddles in plentiful supply indeed! The social landscape is more than a bit lairy these days so enjoy your peace away! 🐌✨

On mossy & dandelion studded garden grass a yellow hand knit jumper is laid out, a ball of wool perched on one shoulder, & little embroidered flowers about the neckline.

🧶 In need of a sitting still day so began stitching little flowers on the newly knitted chunky yellow jumper - the wool used has a lovely rustic roughspun feel, lending a folksy style to the embroidered blooms that with a bit more work will become a spring petal wreathed yoke...

✨ Apologies - didn't mean to post & run yesterday - currently slowly recovering from sepsis damage & had a funny turn with a most unfunny fall to follow, so needing to be very gentle & restful with my silly little self!

You never know! The aunties in C.Cavan keep phoning to tell me they are getting old & I need to get over there so they can scold me in person a few last times - have been wondering about packing Dave up & having an Irish road trip when we are both better! Just the thought of Dave on a ferry tho...

That does not sound great at all...

A little vintage glass vase filled with wild garden flowers, sat on a stone step with a dark painted wooden gate behind.

🌿 Home gathered flowers for Friday - the garden here at the tiny terrace is in fine spring form offering up drifts of purple blooming honesty, green tendrils of fragrant thyme, fairy hat worthy spikes of bluebells, & eternal favourites of blue forget me nots...

A vintage plate of jam biscuits resting on an open notebook with the handwritten recipe page on show, with little vases of wild garden flowers & mint above, all on a blue painted slatted table.

A yellow jumper now with both sleeves all finished knitting & hanging on the back of a weathered garden gate.

A little vintage glass vase filled with wild garden flowers, sat on a stone step with a dark painted wooden gate behind.

🐌 Snippets from a snail slow life - buttery thumbprint biscuits baked with sea buckthorn jam (tastes both deliciously tart & tropical for those wondering!); knitting done on the yellow jumper so time to move to embroidery embellishments; a happy little garden gathered bouquet...

...have two boxes of crocks & shiny treasures ready to donate here! My house is full of so much stuff - don't tempt me! 😆

😆

Oh, I miss those days! Lindisfarne is a bit fancier now on the food front which is probably safer for everyone's stomachs than dubious crab sarnies... 🦀

Did see a rescue on the causeway when I was small & everyone who was watching the tide come in tutted them & resolved then to just never be the fool needing helicopters & boats launched because of my own silliness! They do seem surprised that water is wet & gets deep...

I fully endorse this new rule! ✨