What a wonderful wintery weekend! On Saturday I met up with Clare at Angel Station and we did some last minute Christmas shopping and also stocked up on art supplies (oh, new art supplies!) at Cass Art Shop. It's better than being a kid in a candy store.... We found a lovely cafe called Mocondo in Camden Passage which does a yummy strawberry cheesecake, and mulled tea with apple and ginger. Mmm, cheesecake.
After heading home and unloading my new treasures, Dave picked me up and we headed off to his parents' home near Chalfont St Peters to housesit while they are away on their latest adventure. This time they are visiting Cambodia. Can you tell how cold it is? Here's the water on the top of the birdbath. Brrrrrr.
We went for a stunning Sunday drive out in the country and went past the Prime Minister's country escape; Chequers.
Then we went on a walk to a beautiful misty lookout on Coombe Hill, where I saw and learnt about inversion layers and thermals and admired the colours in the fields below.
I picked up some leaves from the ground on our country walk, so beautiful. These posts are fast becoming a joint effort and these are Dave's pictures.
A Westie gathering in the woods.
A Mr Darcy moment?
We went to Great Missenden to see the Roald Dahl Museum. Here's Dave winding the handle to listen to Felicity Dahl talking about her husband... I like the monkey, he looks like a big version of my teen years heroine Jane Goodall's childhood friend, Jubilee. Liccy Dahl is talking about how Roald Dahl used to cheat at the biggest onion growing competition! But more on the Dahl museum tomorrow.
Hope you had a wonderful weekend too, and that you stayed nice and warm!
3 comments:
looks like a crsip winter weekend for you guys!!!!
it has not gotten too cold over here but what a great excuse to warm up at all those lovely pubs!
You guys look like you're having so much fun, so cute.
:)
By the way, HE looks GREAT!
So, curious..how did Rhoad Dahl cheat at the onion competition?
Roald Dahl ordered special giant onion seeds from a catalogue while everyone else used the normal seeds from their garden... and apparently he talked to them and played music to them to make them grow to be spectacular!
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