And breathe....

After a few weeks of  excessive amounts of study and project reporting, generous quantities of work and virtually non existent blogging, I now have a few precious days off with my family. I hope to knit a bit, walk a bit, blog a bit more, breathe a lot and just catch up - I am so so very tired.

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I desperately craved a walk - so Himself bundled us all in his car and loaded with waterproofs and flasks we headed off to the Dales.

 And the rain fell...

 So we drank tea and coffee, and with the accompanying sound of rain on the car roof, 

we ate our picnic lunch in companionable silence.

  Eventually the rain lifted and the view appeared.

 Rain soaked daffodils

 Youngest and myself found this delightful bicycle

 Usually a bustling little Dales town, Kettlewell had been subdued by the weather

We followed a valley bottom pathway, the rain quietly covering us with a fine layer of moisture

All along our walk, little signs, little flashes of colour in the rainstreaked countryside

Then, the further up the valley we walked, the lighter the sky came.
The clouds began to break showing the most gorgeous patches of blue.

And, although I was hobbling by the time we'd returned to the car,
 I felt a whole lot better than I had earlier in the day.

We are off on a 'super-jolly' soon, so I am definitely taking my camera (my knee brace!) and my waterproofs! 

Are you on holiday?

Is it half term where you are?

Do you have kids that are suddenly taller than you? - Suddenly I do!

Go on, share, tell me what you are up to - anything exciting? Any crafting? 

I feel to have been 'out of the loop' so long with my head in my books now I need to catch up :)