One of the advantages of not living locally to family (Actually I think it may be THE ONLY advantage) is getting to play tourist when they come to stay as my parents did this weekend.
Saturday we went to Cardiff Bay,
Where I took shockingly few pictures. I couldn’t remember taking these at all and then I found this
So Rhys was obviously taking selfies and playing with the camera while I was at the loo. These two were taken from the little Fishermans Chapel, which serves a great lunch. Dad had the kind of Sea Ploughmans and me and mum shared the Cheese Platter.
Sunday we went out for a meal with Rhys’ family which was very nice. Monday, Rhys was in work but me, mum and Dad went to the Transporter Bridge. There’s only something like 6 left in the world that work, and the one in Newport is one of 2 working ones left in the UK. Mum and Dad very bravely walked over the top. I started and 4 or 5 flights up chickened out and went back down!
You can see here how extraordinarily high up they were. Even looking up gave me the Heebie Jeebies!
This is my camera on full full extension – the 12x Optical zoom plus the extra digital zoom. My parents are not yellow smiley men; my mother (on the right) works in a school. The kids have been known in the past to go combing blogs and social media for pictures of staff and photoshoping them in uncompromising positions. My mum because of this doesn’t do social media etc and so I’ve blurred both faces out.
In general we had a beautiful weekend, I burned to a crisp on the Saturday and bought suncream on the Monday; which promptly meant it’s poured down ever since!
Crochet or Knitting wise I’ve not managed to fit much in this weekend. Of an evening I’ve been working on the crochet circles for Nephews blanket. I now have 6 more to go before I start edging them, joining them and working (maybe) on a border.
The baby jumper I was working on has been Frogged. Really I wanted to see if this concept would work in application. It DID, but the arm holes were far to large for a baby. Working on the raglan percentage system is fab for larger kids and grown ups but maybe not quite for babies. Lesson learned, and next time I’d do the sleeve increases every other row instead of every row. Or maybe wise up and buy a book that explains them!
That all being said I have cast on something new! I was about to say I’ll share on WIP Wednesday – but as that’s TOMORROW and these bank holiday weekends are playing with my brain I’ll hopefully share with you later this week.
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