New title

I have given my blog a new name ie created a new blog.It is BusybusyBJ.blogSpot.com.Fingers crossed it works!!

Happy Christmas to everyone

Happy Xmas!I havn't blogged much recently due to moving,Xmas etc.I shall start again in the New Year but I think under a new name.I am being iundated with adverts and can't find any way to get rid of them.Thanks for the advice people have given me but nothing has worked.

Anyway have a lovely Xmas and a healthy and happy New Year.We are off ,in the morning ,to our son's in Cambridge ,come back Saturday.Saturday afternoon our daughter and family come to stay for two nights so a great family time ahead.See you in the New Year.

Adverts

Is anyone else finding adverts for computers are flooding their in box and how do you get rid of them?

We have moved house.

Five weeks ago we moved house.Normally people of our age downsize and move to a bungalow.Not us!!!We have gone from a bungalow to a bigger house.Two reaons fo rmoving really.We wanted toget nearer to town.Now we are just a five minute walk(on the flat) from the shops and we have four bedrooms.The move totally exhausted us but we are thrilled with the house and it's position.Above is a photo of the garden.Not your usual patch of lawn but little paths wandering across the lawn.Very little crafting has been done since the move but now most of the xmas shopping is done and energy levels restored I shall be off again.Watch this space!!!

My latest blanket.......almost finished!

 This is my latest banket.You all know I am addicted to making blankets.This is not quite finished in that I have the edging to do.Quite a daunting task but I wanted to show you how it looked so far.The granny square pattern is from Jane Brocket's The Gentle Art of Knitting(I know it is crocheted but there is a crochet section!)It gobbles up the wool but makes for a thicker blanket.I used Stylecraft Special D.K.which is quite cheap but very soft and comes in 54 shades.I must say I am thrilled with how the colours have gone together and as the nights get colder working on a blanket is lovely and cosy and warm.

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It does my soul good...

 It does my soul good to go to Ness Gardens on the Wirral.I had a lovely long shot of the gardens but it has disappeared!Ness Gardens was born of one man's passion for plants and his desire to share it with others.When Liverpool cotton merchant Arthur Bulley began to create a garden in 1898 he laid the foundations for a wonderful botanic garden.He was responsible for introducing plants from China and the Himalayas to Britain.After his death in 1948 his daughter presented the gardens to Liverool University along with £75,000.
We are friends of Ness(less than £40 a year for two of us) so we can go any time.Every time we go we see things we havn't seen before.The picture above is of fruit on a magnolia tree.New to me.You can harvest the seeds and try and grow them yourself.

 This a fruit from a Japanese Dogwood(Cornus Kousa Chinensis).So unusual and new to me again.

 There were masses of these Colchium alongside tiny cyclamen.Colchium are strange.They have leaves in the Spring,they die and then the flowers come along.

Look at this sunflower!10 foot high.

 "scarlet" kale.

Why can I not grow nasturtiums like this?I have tried numerous times and always fail.
We had a lovely afternoon walk.It is a wonderful garden to visit.So tranquil.We just sat and admired the view(the photo that disappeared) and enjoyed the peace.All we could hear were the birds singing.Lovely.

Zentangle.Have you tried it?

 Zentangling is something I have recently discovered,The idea is that it is a form of relaxation and a kind of meditation.You are so involved in doing the patterns you don't think about anything else.I bought this book"One Zentangle a Day".It is a 6 week course in creative drawing for relaxation,inspiration and fun.

 First attempt.

 Second attempt.

you end up being able to do patterns like the one above.
Unfortunately I never seem to find time to do it every day.I am not artistic at all so this appealed to me.I have thoroughly enjoyed what I have done so far and intend as Autumn arrives to fit it into my daily routine.
Has anyone else had a go at this?