Hooked Yarn

Holidays!

• 26 July 2010 6:51 am

If it’s possible, I love the Forest of Dean more now than before.  We have been quite a few times but this time staying a week enabled us to really see it properly.  The site we stayed on was gorgeous, Bracelands, right in the middle of the forest, surrounded by tree’s and the absolute best thing about the whole week, barring the weekend of course was the fact that the English schools hadn’t broken up yet so nowhere was busy, which is really useful when you have a couple of fearless nutters riding at top speed through the forest…

It really made a nice change, all our holidays are beach themed as our boys are complete water babies (as is the big boy too actually) so it was nice to not have sand everywhere and to be surrounded by gorgeous, beautiful green everywhere.

So as well as a couple of days cycling we had a wonderful afternoon doing this:

and this view is from above where we were kyaking:

and we only had one afternoon of this:

Which turned out to be very fortuitous as we went to the cinema in Gloucester and guess what was next door, yes, would you believe it, a Hobbycraft!  The gods were obviously smiling down on me as the night before I had finished the lace shawl (pictures in a couple of days when I have blocked it) and had nothing to do and I know I’m on this 2010 Crafts neutral challenge, but I couldn’t not crochet for 3 more days!  So I bought a pamphlet on cable and some wool (in the sale!).  But I’ll leave that for another post!

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