Blogtober 2024 :: Day 18

Blogtober Day 18 :: Friday

♥ Our 7 o'clock morning walk is getting a little darker each day, but today the sky is clear and we are followed the whole way by the brightest full moon still in the sky.

♥ 8 o'clock back up the hill to the end of our street and a golden sky with very pretty clouds.

♥ 9 o'clock is coffee time on a Friday, yay! A wonderful morning spent laughing and chatting with friends. Oh, and a few rows of heel flap progress too.

♥ Midday and home again, admiring my neighbours cherry tree which looks very bright and feisty today.

♥ 12.30 I'm eating lunch and the room is full of the scent of lilies, a gift from Little Lady for my birthday. The fragrance instantly reminds me of Salts Mill which often has huge vases of lilies in amongst the books and art materials.

♥ 2 o'clock....I'm at Salts Mill! A spontaneous trip totally inspired by the lillies, Little Lady happy to indulge me and come along for the jaunt. Saltaire is only 25 minutes by train, and I always think to myself I should come here more often.

♥ Salts it such a great place for a slow, leisurely mooch, it has a wonderful atmosphere.

♥ The tone is slightly hushed and there is classical music playing. 

♥ It's tasteful and sophisticated, and I adore looking at all the beautifully curated displays. We spend a while paging through books and taking in the artwork on the walls.

♥ A little pootle through the Home section, admiring all the classy homewares before going upstairs to the top floor to view the latest David Hockney exhibition "a year in Normandie"

♥ 15:30 stepping out of the mill, it feels quite warm and Autumnal, so we decide to take a little stroll along the canal.

♥ This is the very same Leeds-Liverpool canal that I walk along every day, only now we are sixteen miles closer to Leeds.

♥ 16:10 We are passing the Boathouse Inn, so decide to stop in for a glass of chilled white wine. Making the most of the mild weather we sit outside right next to the river, it's a lovely spot to people watch - the park is busy with families and children and dogs all enjoying the big grassy space.

♥ 16:30  and it's nearly time for our train home. We walk down some of the very picturesque little terraced streets, admiring the painted front doors and the well kept front gardens. Saltaire is a very well preserved World Heritage Site, you can see more of the lovely houses and streets ((here)).

♥ 16:40 Home time, our train is due in two minutes and the platform is just on the other side of those railings.

What a lovely day of slow and simple pleasures - beautiful skies, good coffee, friendship, colourful yarn, the scent of flowers, a spontaneous train ride, time with my sweet girl, chilled white wine, autumn scenery, history and heritage.

And now I'm going to get tucked up in bed and lose myself in the world of the Seven Sisters for a little while. I've got no plans for this weekend, but I'm hoping for some crochet time and maybe a short Autumn walk somewhere local. Have you got weekend plans, I'd love to hear, thanks as always for joining me here in the Attic xxxxxxxxxx

 

 

Comments

[Jo]

I love when you share your wanderings. My friend lives in Saltaire and I was lucky enough to visit her there one time. We’re both from NZ but she ended up there and I live in the US. It was amazing to see the historical buildings and landscape and imagine what kind of place our ancestors had emigrated from (and then tried to recreate on the other side of the world!)

[Tamara]

Lovely pictures!
I don`t mean to be that person, but for the sake of your kitty, I do have to warn you that lillies are extremely toxic to cats. Even a tiny bit of the pollen can be fatal to them.

[Cathy Tucker]

Oh the reflections of the trees on the canal. Delicious.

[Angela]

Hi Lucy, sounds like you had a lovely day on Friday! It is now Sunday morning where I am.

Yesterday, I caught up with a wonderful friend who I hadn't seen for almost 2 years! I was busy studying at one stage so I didn't have much time to see friends and then she was preparing for a house move so she got busy too. I met her at her house and she lives in a lovely part of our city (Devonport) so we wandered down to one of her local cafes and it was just lovely to have a good ol chin wag and catch up on all of our news!

Hmmmm today, I have a lot of chores to do but I feel the need to get out in nature, so there will be a walk involved which will either be in a park or along a sandy beach somewhere. I have a favourite beach that is only 20 minutes drive from home.

Talking about beaches, I have just started a new part time job 2 days a week. My job is situated in a place called Mission Bay, Auckland. It's one of the most popular beaches in our city so it can be busy with people a lot of the time but it still has a a wonderful relaxing feel to it. It's a little cold at the moment but when the weather is warm enough for me to wear sandels to work I WILL be down at that beach before work and during my lunch break and dipping my feet into that lovely soothing water! Oh yes, that's what I was most looking forward to when I applied for the job hahaha! I absolutely cannot wait 🏖

Thank you for sharing your Friday with us! Oh, and I do love the new stylecraft special colours! Options are endeless with the stylecraft range now 😍😍😍

It must be your Saturday night now. I hope you had a lovely Saturday day and I hope you are having a lovely relaxing evening tonight. Angela xxxx❤️

[Kit]

What a perfect day! I love Salts Mill - sooo many lovely art supplies! - and the Hockney exhibition is fab. So lovely to share it with your daughter too.

[Joan]

Wow, just 25 minutes train ride! Saltaire - a wonderful place and thanks for taking me down memory lane. Thank you for sharing your walks and photos, a landscape or just a pretty autumn leaf, not to mention all those colourful blankets.

[Deb]

Salts Mill and Saltaire are fab, but haven’t been for yonks. Highlight of my day yesterday was a little private tour of the wonderful Shepherd’s Purse cheese creamery, how lucky am I! Now eating the contents of a little gift bag I was given! Yum!

[Tammy]

My weekend has been a blustery one so far, good reason to stay inside tucked under a blanket, watching tv, reading, and crocheting of course! We were supposed to be camping on the mountain but cancelled that once I discovered there was a winter storm warning for that area! Our first snow for Utah, USA, and hopefully the last for a little while anyway!
I am enjoying your blog as usual and love reading about the many simple pleasures you always find throughout the day. You're truly an inspiration in so many ways! Thank you!

[Sue]

What a lovely day you’ve had!! I’m immediately going to look up Saltaire. The more I see of Yorkshire the more I love it and want to explore. Apple crumble and lasagne making today. A visit to my local yarn shop for supplies for Christmas stocking making for a friend’s baby and might have to pop into the coffee and cake shop opposite for a little weekend treat. Also out shopping with my two girls. I remember when it used to involve buying toys and colouring books and crayons but they’re both grown up now and thankfully they have inherited my love of shopping for cosy homeware! Enjoy your weekends everyone xx

[VMK]

Dear Lucy, I am a headteacher so the Autumn Term is always a full on affair. Thank you so much for taking part in your own Blogtober again this year. Your posts really do cheer the soul and I positively look forward to reading then with a cup of tea at the end of another very long day.

[Melody]

Thank you Lucy for sharing your lovely day. I am inspired to try the CAL this year. My weekend is to be a quiet one. A little crochet but first to finish two Harry Potter waistcoats for impatient 4 and 5 year old grandsons! I am in sort of sunny Somerset!

[Barbara]

I haven’t been to Saltaire but I think I would love it. I’m sure it was extra special being with your daughter. I can almost smell those lilies. B x

[Chele H]

Loved your spontaneous day out Lucy with your girl. How good is that. Friyay yarn friends gathering. What a joy.

Still very poorly after being struck down with a metapneumovirus two weeks ago and had to cancel an author talk at our library today. So, spending time at home this weekend pruning roses, writing exercises for my online writers group, online church tomorrow and finishing my Flower Press blanket for a Big O present for my sister. It is the right weight for a snuggle at the moment and loving the yarn. At this time of year it is usually hot and humid but this year it is cool and rainy. I’m not complaining!!!
As always when I get towards the end of a blanket I wonder if I should gift it as originally intended? But then I look at yarn packs I have in my studio and then look forward to the next project.

I am currently waiting for a yarn delivery (I live in the picturesque Hunter Valley NSW Australia). I have ordered more Recreate yarn to make a blanket with just the flowers and two rows of champagne from the Flower Press blanket joined with the aubergine colour.

Loved the Seven Sisters series. I listened to most of the books during the pandemic and then the last book of Pa Salt late last year. It was the best. So sad that Linda Riley died. It was a great series and she was a wonderful writer.

Thanks as ever for your Blogtober blogs. They are a great start to my day.
Have a lovely weekend. X

[Marilyn Lynch]

I’m going to the Sheep and Wool Festival in Rhinebeck, New York. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? I’ve never been before, but have wanted to go for years. Hundreds of vendors selling all kinds of yarn, plus sheep shearers and spinners and patterns and notions. It should be a wonderful day. It’s about a 3 hour car trip from our home in Rhode Island, and my husband has kindly offered to drive. I love your blog and thank you so much for sharing so generously. Happy birthday!

[Madeleine]

I was given lilies like yours by a friend for my birthday, incredible scent, unfortunately I had an allergic reaction to them, once some petals were beginning to drop after having them for 12 days DH insisted they went into the compost for he could see I was suffering. I hadn’t wanted them to go knowing how thoughtful it was of friend who has so many troubles of her own and still thought to help celebrate my unimportant birthday.

[Maypole]

A lovely way to spend a day.

[Bridie]

I love how you make the most of your local beauty spots and how in tune with nature you always are, such a lovely simple yet very satisfying way to live. I envy you!
I have learned so much from your tutorials…thank you doesn’t seem like enough to say.
I would love to know what socks tutorial you would recommend. After forty years of not knitting any socks, (and having considered myself an expert once!)
I find myself struggling with the heel turning ☹️
Have a lovely weekend 🥰

[PennyL]

I have so enjoyed reading this post Lucy. How lovely to spend spontaneous time with your daughter! I taught some lovely Year 1 children this morning, but as it was sunny down here in Dorset I ‘forced’ my semi-retired husband to come with me for a quite blustery walk at Durlston, which is in Swanage. It was lovely to be by the sea, watching the birds, and the waves! PennyL in Dorset

[Linda]

What a lovely day you’ve had.
The south was shrouded in fog this morning putting paid to plans for an early day out.
I worked on my Christmas stocking. Then once it warmed up after lunch I went into the garden, more tidying, whole hubby cut the grass. Probably the last one before the winter.
This evening I have finished the stocking. Pleased about that.
Tomorrow we will go and see our daughter and grandchildren.
Have a great weekend. Lucy.
Best Wishes Linda x

[Sue]

Sounds like a lovely day Lucy. I am away for a week in Norfolk, my friends have now gone home but I'm staying on for 3 nights on my own, on Sunday I'm going out with a guide to see all the birds at Snettisham. I have socks on needle's to keep me busy.

[Steph]

Loved the seven sisters books xx
What a lovely day ☺️

[Jo MacIndeor]

I love your blogs you live in a beautiful part of the world I really enjoyed this one as it brought back memories from over 40 years ago .
My mum wanted to go on a woman’s weekly holiday to Emmerdale , last of the summer wine country., Haworth it was a jam packed weekend amazing including Titus Salts village. I went back with a friend many years later because I thought it was so wonderful. May have to have another trip 😘

[Linda Thompson]

Happy Birthday Lucy

[Linda Thompson]

This series is so addictive. Especially the final one.

[Abby Heslin]

Love the Seven Sisters books too. Really enjoyed the history and family relationships