Where did August go?

Where did last month go? I was looking on the camera to find out and here is where it went for us.

Ground force team at Charlotte's. Having ordered a shed we found Angus had ordered 3 tons of top soil and 60 sq mts of turf to arrive at the same time! - unfortunately we have no 'after' pic on the camera

We had a night at the Minack Theatre to see A Midsummer Nights Dream - what a place!

Sunday lunch at Streetfood_Cafe at the Padstow Kitchen Garden - AMAZING! Unfortunately the weather wasn't, all we could see was the sea mist rather than the Camel Estuary but the food made up for it.

Then a stop off at Steins new gin bar in Padstow

An unexpected visit from Charlotte and Nina the week after involved alot of piano playing

There was a new addition to the family - Izzy, Becky's birthday present from Tom

 

A trip to Buxton proved you can't get anywhere fast with a puppy

She's a great hit with Nina especially when it involves water

Nina had her first hair cut whilst she was with us

David and I had a couple of lovely walks with friends. One ending up along the canal

and one which took us to Roche Abbey, near Maltby

It hasn't all been happy, happy but this isn't the place or time to expand on that. 

I have discovered the joys of having a 'proper' phone which I can take good pictures on and link straight to Instagram. I have found myself using it (phone and Instagram) more and more and as soon as I have time and the knowledge I shall put an Instagram link on my blog page - so watch this space!! We are off on our 'summer' holiday next week and are starting in Cornwall, them moving on to Dorset before finishing up at Merkins Farm just outside Bradford on Avon. I can't wait it's ages since we were in the caravan. Catch you all when I get back xxx

 

Life @ number 6 is just too busy!!

Despite the lack of posts I am still here. I can't believe we are at the end of July and today is like this

I have been refurbishing another wicker chair in order that I can have it outside but since it was done it has remained mainly in our hall.

It began it's overhaul like this

 A new base was added, along with new foam and covered with bargain fabric off Ebay. Oh well maybe it'll be sitting out weather tomorrow!
But I digress slightly - since I last posted I've worked extra hours, flown down to Cornwall on a £42 return flight from Doncaster, visited my brother in Lancashire, had a girls night out at an excellent restaurant in Cawthorne called Beatson House, been to a vintage day in Edwinstow, driven (well David did) down to Cornwall where we went to the Minack Theatre to see the opera version of Midsummer's night dream, along with pretending we were the 'Ground Force Team' transforming Charlotte and Angus's garden in 3 and a half days and now I am waiting for Charlotte and Nina to arrive for the weekend - well Nina is with us whilst Charlotte and the rest of the family all go down to London for Becky's birthday surprise.

As I can't get out in the garden I have been making some salted nutella cookies

12 the recipe said, I've made 34!!! - something wrong somewhere, anyway they'll get eaten and can be taken down to London as well.
I've also had a go at lemonade, well it's a lemonade cordial. It has to be left overnight and bottled tomorrow. If it's nice I'll put the link on the Life at number 6 Facebook page.

I'll not leave it so long next time as I've so many pictures to share xx

A Vintage Day out

Having spent so much time around the house last week, I thought it would be nice to have a day out yesterday. I gave David the choice of 3 different places - A classic car and bike show in Matlock, a walk at Otley Chevin or Louth's Vintage day, he chose Louth . Now Louth isn't a half hours drive from us, in fact it took us just over an hour and a half, but it is a pretty run through some lovely villages. We drove right into the center (not my idea) and amazingly got parked quite easily. As soon as we got out of the car we could hear music and so followed it back to the market square.
First stop was the classic cars

a rather nice Porsche with a price tag of £69,950, slightly cheaper ( although it wasn't on show) was a car from my past a 2CV at £9,000

A 'Moggy 1000' police car

Having crawled all over the cars (not literally) David was finally ready to leave and we wandered up to the market place

passed the various stalls with vintage items.

I loved the dresses and hats

At the top of the square was where all the action was taking place - a rock and roll line dance

and of course lots of jiving 

all dancing to a very good tribute band called 'Phil Hayley and the Comments'

Many people were dressed appropriately for the era

For us it was well worth the drive - and to add to the enjoyment, the sun shone!!!

Some of the images are taken from the Louth Festival - Zero Degrees facebook page