Get Stashed...

OK you asked for it, this is (and not all of it) my main stash of yarn. Now when I am feeling down or a little lacking in the creative department this is what I look at, along with all my knitting books (photo of my knitting books in a previous post a while ago). This without a doubt always a) makes me smile and b) gets all those ideas flowing.
I have previously posted how my friend who is a great knitter taught me to knit. Over a two year period my friend and I got together every Tuesday for Knitting night, we always had lots to chat about and even when we saw each other with our children in the day you could bet our knitting bags would always be close by!!! Ok the reason for wittering on like this, other than to try to justify my yarn habit! Well she moved away in January, I miss her and her babes like mad, so along with the holiday comes free time and she is hoping to come and stay with her three children...Hurrah!!

I have been TAGGED by the lovely devligendekoe I LIKE TO EAT... 5 places I like to eat, well that is my understanding of the tag. This is not a hard one for me as I do like to eat, too much actually, I struggle to understand how I was ever mildly anorexic in my teens...

1) I eat as many meals out in my garden as much as possible. The garden table is out all year, even in the cold weather myself and my kids will wrap up warm and eat homemade soup followed by steaming (well luke warm for the children) mugs of Chocolate and marshmallows. That said it is much nicer to eat out in the garden in the summer time. Mess is not a problem so its enjoyable and easy.
2) No surprise here...on the BEACH you can not beat British fish and chips, covered in healthy (Ha Ha!) salt and vinegar. Yep I actually even like the crunch when a bit of sand gets in there... that sounds weird.
3) In our camper van, Oh how I love our camper, its only little the size of a VW, it has the cutest little kitchen, everything in miniature, if its nice we do eat on the picnic table outside, but some of the best memories are when its pouring with rain and windy and we are all warm and cosy in the van snuggled up (due to lack of space) around the van table eating some soul warming grub.
4) BBQ with friends, easy summer living, late nights watching the sun go down, pulling a blanket over our shoulders when the sun takes with it its warmth. Lovely summer wine and burnt offerings. Ahh great memories are made of this.
5) OK I better take this in a different direction as basically they are all outside...so a restaurant is called for, oh so many. I love eating in restaurants, pre children I was lucky enough to travel throughout Europe and live in a few places for a periods of time, Paris was one of these and I had great meal after great meal, some in fabulous restaurants and some little back street fish places. I have also eaten in Raymond Blancs Le Manoir Aux Quat' Saisons which was an amazing experience for the taste buds and the senses, beautiful surroundings. Watergate bay, a great beach restaurant, you will know it by Jamie Oliver. Superb pasta in Italy. Oh my what shall I pick...I am going to have to go back to being outside again, I go to a little bistro in Abersoc (Wales) it has a relaxed style, quite surfy, the food is great, with good sized portions, friendly not snotty service, and a great outdoor terrace to eat out on with special outdoor heating, no not ozone damaging gas heaters.

So there you have it, yes I could have given you a list of great restaurants and places to go, but I think the underlining pattern here is I like eating out simply and with friends.

As for the kind of food I eat, I try and eat healthy but I do enjoy a Sunday roast dinner, most of my friends are veggies so I get to eat some great food I would not normally make myself, lots of pulses, seeds and leafy veg. My personal fav. food is Greek, I adore garlic in my food (sorry anyone in the near area to me) I failed my Domestic Science and could not really cook, at least not successfully, I worked in the Greek Isles for two summers and I was taught to cook the Greek way!
Photographs
1)Suzie Sews personal Yarn Stash 2)today's thrifting, beautiful happy curtains and a cushion cover, I am thinking aprons and a skirt! 3)My everyday plate cupboard, I canot one for things matching! 4) The Beach has had an influence in all areas of my life, this is my bathroom floor. 5) To follow on from picture 4, this is the bathroom wall, if your an IKEA fan you will know these pictures. The colour of the walls is not available anymore, let me tell you it is lovely, cool in summer and warm in winter. I love my little bathroom it has a beach hut feel.

PS Its raining with flood alerts!!!