Cars with picnic baskets...

Afternoon everyone,

What a lovely day we had yesterday, there was a vintage car rally on at the marina so we popped down for a browse,

let me introduce you to Erin...

Erin travelled to the event in her Hillman Imp and was dressed for the occasion in a gorgeous 60's outfit, doesn't she look elegant??

Of course she brought along a picnic in a wonderful hamper, and just look at that handbag....

Time for tea....

Guess what was inside the Beatle??

another lovely vintage  hamper in  green  to match the car!!

Not too sure if I'd be brave enough to travel in this car though as  it only had 3 wheels but it did have a wicker basket strapped to the back, so maybe.

Love the colour of this Wolsey, just look at those wheels

and this is an Austin A30, I know because I had one!!

When I passed my test at 17 my dad paid the man up the road £50 for it but I couldn't drive it looking like that so, my cousin who was an artist painted it for me. It had dice and flowers on the sides and a big union jack on the top and was a real show stopper!! (Must ask my mam if she has a photo)

As it was a lovely warm sunny afternoon we headed over to the "refreshment tent" for a drink or two and of course the police were on hand to see there was no unruly behaviour!!

Now this is what I'd call "travelling in style" not sure what the little boxes were for, maybe tools?

As you can see we had a lovely time, did you do anything nice yesterday?

Bye for now,

Lucey xx

Tick, tock...

Evening girls,

When we moved into the house we put a shelf up in the kitchen for all my bits 'n bobs but I wasn't quite happy with it so we thought we'd paper the wall instead. We've been  looking for a while but couldn't find the right paper, then a few weeks ago we saw a huge clock and thought "that's it" just the right thing for the wall.

So at the weekend "the man with the van" delivered  "big ben"and we got a few match pots for the wall in red, grey  and olive green but none realy went with the finish on the clock so Mr Lucey painted it white again

I quite like oversized pieces in small spaces, stops it looking too twee I think.

Changing  the subject you'll never guess what I saw when I was walking along the high street today,

a hand knitted nest and bird sitting in the branches on a tree outside a church!!

The little tag says "if you realy, realy need me please take me but if not leave me for others to enjoy" my sister said they've been there about three weeks

Looks like the little bird has a fat juicy worm in it's mouth, I don't know if they're anything to do with the church but what a lovely idea.

I made a vanilla blancmange today in the jelly mould,

mmmmmm, there's no stopping me now!!!

Night night,

Lucey xx

Part two...

I forgot to show you the mould those lovely jellies come out of yesterday so this is it, all shiny like a new penny,

and here's the new mould that we found lurking at the  back of an antique shop in Whitby last weekend!!

What do you think of "Mr Lion" lounging on top, can you hear him "roar"!!

he makes pretty impressive jellies too,

first up I made the lion in orange jelly and the bottom in lime, my favourite flavour,

then I made  a  blackcurrant lion with  a lemon bottom, what do you think???

This book from Bompas and Parr, jellymongers, dropped on my mat on saturday,

these two are the masters of jelly making

pretty impressive stuff!!

Wow, I wonder if my jellies will ever be that good, I've got all the ingredients to make real jellies (not out of a packet!!) so watch this space, oh and I've just given myself a new title,

"jellymongeress"!!

Love Lucey xx



Part one....

A few weeks ago I watched a programme with Rosemary Shrager and she made loads and loads of jellies in  ornate copper jelly moulds, so I had a browse on e bay, won one and made one or two!!

This is the first attempt and I forgot to wet the plate so it stuck where it landed,

I left this one in hot water a bit too long and it split!

Getting better....

the best!!

Lucious wibbly wobbly jellies, anyone fancy a spoonfull??

Of course you need something to go with your jelly,

how about pears and maltesers??

Yummy, a lovely tea time treat.

We're having a little "Royal wedding" party and I'm in charge of the jelly, so this was just a trial run, but, I have a bigger and better mould to show you, it's setting in the fridge, so till part two....

Bye for now,

Lucey xx

Random photographs...

Afternoon ladies,

thought I might show you a few random photographs on this fine sunny afternoon so here goes!!

First up is Dolly my bil's 19 year old cat,

she's so sweet.

My nephew Jonathan with his tattooed moustache!!

A beautiful swan on the lake at the garden centre.

Alexa's fingers when she touched the hob, I'm glad to say they've now healed up

some geese in the local park

and a little fat mouse on the side of my chopping board.

New lelly kelly shoes

and....

"it's time for tea at three"!!

my new outdoor clock,

little things amuse little minds!!

So until I have anything more interesting to write about (lol)

bye for now, Lucey xx



199 steps later....

I must have been to Whitby hundreds of times but I've never noticed the steps leading up to the Abbey have roman numerals on them

ten...

twenty...

fifty...

180...

and so on until we reached 199 steps at the top....

and, at the top we saw the most gorgeous ladies dressed in their finest Victorian attire

loved this lady's hat it had clock faces and jet brooches pinned on it.

Some ladies had gents to escort them

you'd have to be brave to carry him on your back!!

We got chatting to this lovely couple and the lady said she got the pattern from the internet and her friend made the dress for her, isn't it gorgeous??? I could probrably manage to make the bag but never the dress, and I want one!!

I want to dress up like that and go walking the streets of Whitby and pretend I lived a hundred years ago.....

Of course these ladies and gents have to have something to travel in

how about this...

or even this....

a hearse carrying a skeleton in a glass sided coffin no less!!

For those traveling in a horse and carriage you have to have somewhere for your  horse to go

the white horse and griffin offers "good stabling".

We had a wonderful day  I think I'll book us a weekend stay in October when there's a big gothic weekend on,  of course I must have the outfit for such an occasion....or am I a bit too old???

I'm popping over to my mams now with a huge bunch of roses for mothers day,

Happy Mothers Day  Mam

Love Lucey xxx