Alderley Edge – Country kids..

That should read POSH country kids i think. We haven’t been to Alderley Edge before, despite it being fairly near where we live but we ventured to the national trust property there and discovered on the way there the largest collection of cars individually worth more than our house! Holy high insurance premiums batman!

Anyway despite trying to spot football players, apparently a lot of them live there. I would have a clue tbh….they could walk right up to me and id not have the foggiest idea…

BUT! The walks around Alderley Edge were lovely and autumnal but VERY busy..so many people…i guess sunny day at the weekend and everyone is savouring it, can’t say i blame them.

Of course i took my camera..and i used my macro lens which presented a little bit of a problem for those ‘panoramic’ landscape shots…but hey ho..i think the light was lovely at times…

oh and apologies for the “movember’ I have absolutely nothing to do with that 😉

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#satcap day… huzzah!

Its a sleepy saturday caption day for me at least it will be as I am working friday night so will be fairly smushed tomorrow…here it is.

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a long walk in the sand….

We took a trip recently to Hilbury island. Its an Island off the coast of the wirral that at certain times of the day the tide goes out far enough to walk to.

My OH has been keen to walk all the way out to the main island but we have never made it. There are a succession of points you have to pass first, middle eye..

then we walked to middle eye…it was quite a way and we had to navigate a lot of wet sand and rock..

we made it to middle eye and discovered a little beach (within a beach) and some cool caves and rocks…as it was getting late we decided that going on to the island itself wasn’t a great idea. But the kids didn’t seem to mind!!

 

Family Farm Holidays Cornwall

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#silentsunday

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Finding the gold

Finding the gold: When old prospectors would look for gold they would take large pan and grab up huge loads of gravel and sand, shaking it backwards and forwards to encourage the heavier gold to the bottom of the pan, at the same time the lighter materials which are worthless are worked up to the surface and swept away. This process is repeated until all that is left is the heaviest most valuable material. 

My finding the gold project is inspired by this description, searching through the daily stuff of life that is ultimately worthless…the stress, the what ifs, the tantrums, the work nonsense,…and finding those valuable bits of my day, my week that are the moments i need to remember. The things that catch my eye and are just beautiful in their simplicity unbidden and untouched by the daily grind. Things that make me smile, even if sometimes that smile doesn’t linger and stay.

Some weeks it is harder to than others, sometimes the pan feels like it is only full of gravel and sand. There are weeks when its hard to keep going, searching through the detritus of this crazy, busy, frantic stage of life. Times when having time to catch you breathe seems impossible let alone stopping to look… but then you catch a glimpse, even in the darkest of darkness a small shard of gold can shine out and lift your spirits.  Even if it is just one piece.

Can you find the gold in your day…?

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