Patrick Regan, Clarie Miles, Stewart North in front of 'small steps for big Change' banner in BTP coffee shop
❤️🩹 Fab evening last night at BTP Bristol for Patrick Regan's book launch. always encouraging, always real. Highly recommend 'Small Steps for Big Change' if you're feeling overwhelmed. #mentalhealth #kintsugiHope #Bristol
Bristol streets with a blue morning sky
👟 with a job change comes a routine change: running is now an 8:30 after school-run challenge. On the plus side, the sunshine is bright today. #slowrunning #running #moveformentalhealth
Jan 10 Stock Hill Mine Cave - Downstream Series. Duration 3-4 hrs Following on from last year's trip to the Upstream section of Stock Hill Mine Cave, this trip will visit the Downstream Series. This relatively recent discovery contains some sporting passages and notable features such as the Font, COVID Crawl, Early Dors Pitch and the Crystal Palace. It is quite a physical trip with a lot of flat out crawling, energy sapping mud, plus difficult slippery traverses and little in terms of reward for your effort! Just was is needed to blow away the Xmas cobwebs.
🧗🏻♀️🔦 Wessex club trip down Stoke Hill Mine Cave today. It was accurately advertised as 'flat out crawling, energy sapping mud and slippery traverses'. Great fun still, and makes me feel I can now do anything!
hey all, I'm taking a Christmas holiday from social media so have a blessed and peaceful Christmas and A Happy New Year! xx
🧗🏻♀️🔦 #caving trip down to Eastwater today- all the way to Unlucky Strike and Mellow Chamber. The pretties feel very worth it by the time you make it there! Fab 2nd Sat trip with the Wessex Cave Club. #spelunking #movingformentalhealth
Windswept umbrella lost and alone in a green field. Photo taken in the dark morning light
👟 cold dark slow run this morning, but if I wait till it's no longer cold and dark in the mornings then I won't be running till May😄 #running #slowrunning #moveformentalhealth
Hexagon Christmas stocking. White stars on blue background hexagons for body, white solid hexagons for sock cuff.
🧶 Christmas stocking made for my son. Star pattern from Attys love for crochet on Flickr, hexagon joining from Jennifer Good and solid hexagons from Bella Coco on YouTube. #crochet #crochetsky #showmeyourknits
🧗🏻♀️🔦 #caving log. Goatchurch cavern. Solo trip to familiarise myself with the cave so I can take the children in the school holiday.
The reverse side of the full #foliageblanket showing green leaves on a white background #crochet
Here is the back of the blanket #reversible
🧶 #JanuaryChallenge completed! Here is Svetlana Rogatykh's #foliageblanket in interlocking filet #crochet complete, using Sirdar Loveful Yarn in fern and birch. Thanks to @thewoolceller in #chippingsodbury for their support. Pattern from Ravelry. #craftsky #crochetsky
A white double border to frame the pattern #wip
#wip final border pattern emerging
#wip another border line done
#wip nearly there...
🧶 I've been plugging away and the next post will be the grand reveal. Here are some dot matrix printer progress photos for you. Rows 200-208. #foliageblanket #crochet #wip #craftsky
Corner of foliage blanket showing error, causing mass unpicking.
🧶 I was so close! I was going to finish the complicated pattern before Stranger Things, do the border during, and be done before yarn shop visit tomorrow. But I made an error, had to frog 2 whole rows of both colours, and then kept going wrong as watching TV! #crochet #wip #foliageblanket #craftsky
👟 morning run as the sun came up today, which wasn't as picturesque as it sounds under the grey skies. First run without a single cough, and first cold shower since being ill too :) #moveformentalhealth #movetocave #slowrunning #running
Janet and anxiety
I bumped into Janet at coffee morning today. I first met Janet at a Kintsugi Hope Wellbeing Group a few years ago. Today, Janet told me that she went swimming and for the first time ever she managed to ’nearly’ enjoy it. Janet and myself at coffee morning Janet explained she had…
Top quarter of WIP foliage blanket, with two black cats sitting on it and looking up.
Final stretch everybody! Row 196 completed in both colours. 4 more of pattern to go, then 9 of border and we are there! #januarychallenge #foliageblanket #crochet #craftsky #crochetsky #wip
A muddy track leading between dry stone walls across the Mendip Hills UK
👟 managed to run/walk a whole mile for the first time since being ill. Being out in the fresh Mendip air helped! #moveformentalhealth #running #slowrunning #grateful
WIP leading edge of the foliage blanket
🧶 190 rows completed, 20 to go and I'm on the final stretch to get the blanket done before Christmas! #crochet #crochetsky #wip #foligaeblanket #januarychallenge
Crochet square in spice (orange) #wip
🧶 waiting to board the plane to Edinburgh to deliver Mental Health Friendly Church Training in Dundee tomorrow for @KintsugiHope.
Getting a cheeky square or two in during the wait! #crochet #craftsky
#wip leading edge of 180 rows of #foliageblanket
🧶 Leading edge of the #foliageblanket. Both colours of Row 180 complete. 30 to go now before Christmas deadline. #januarychallenge #crochet #crochetsky #craftsky
🧗🏻♀️🔦 Caving Log. Wed 12/11. Swildons' Hole. Myself, Jack and his colleague Tom. Good trip down to Sump 1 for Tom's first time caving. Swildons' is wet again, with the sump full and foam on the top and a proper stream over the 40' (which is only 8' )drop.
Young suburban street tree with golden leaves, and bare Plane trees in the background. Grey skies.
👟I've had a couple of weeks off exercise whilst I recover from a virus and autumn has progressed whilst I've been ill. Tester run today which aggravated the cough so back sooner than planned for a hot shower. I want to be well enough to cave on Wed. #takeiteasy #moveformentalhealth #slowrunning
Leading edge of #wip #foliageblanket
🧶 back into the swing of it! 172 rows done. 38 left to go before Christmas (and 51 days to do it in). #foliageblanket #januarychallenge
The foliage blanket in a bag, under a chair.
🧶 this is a no-progress crochet update! I've been working on a different project for a bit, and then this week been too ill with a cold to be able to crochet. When my head is clear I will be back on it! #januarychallenge #craftsky #crochet #nowip
The entrance chamber has shifted in the last 30 years so it's unfamiliar to start with... Other than that though, the caves and the cavers are still asleep they have always been :)
🔦🧗🏻♀️Another good #caving trip today. Only to Sump 1 and back in Swildons', but the addition of carrying the tackle sac and the water which has started to appear with the wet autumn weather presented more of a challenge. I left suitably tired out :) #spelunking #MoveForMentalHealth
Flash photo of the garden path this morning. Complete with cat.
👟 out before the sunrise and back before small people left for school. 3 miles done. Brand new toe blister: how does that happen when no change in socks and trainers? #run #running #moveformentalhealth #runsky #slowaf
Top half and leading edge WIP photo of #foliageblanket
🧶the blankets too large/the floor is too small for full photos till the end now! So for those of you enjoying the dot matrix printing effect, here is the leading edge at row 164. #januarychallenge #foliageblanket #crochet #craftsky
A Tale of Two Churches
Here in Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch, in a small church hall, I am witnessing the building of another great monument to the glory of God, built this time not with stone and timber but with love and hope.
🧗🏻♀️🔦 First solo caving trip today. Practiced rigging the 20 ladder in Swildons'. #spelunking #caving #moveformentalhealth #challenge
Yes I think it would. Crochet is similar, if you make it wet you can stretch it out and increase the size.
