We visited York on bank holiday Monday.

We had a lovely day out in York on bank holiday Monday.
This is another of my favourite places; my daughter wanted to go to Scarborough for the day. Last year we went to Whitby and got stuck in the traffic for hours, both there and back. So we decided against going to the coast.
This is the entrance way to the York City wall.

I have walked round the walls when I was a child, but not recently.

This lilac painted man was attracting attention in the shambles.

There were lots of tourists visiting the Minster.
This is a different view of York Minster.

York racecourse, taken from the car. I wasn’t driving!
We went to Harrogate on the previous Friday but it rained most of the time so I didn’t take any photos.

Successful Pudsey fair day.

The Leeds Doll and Teddy fair was a great success.
There was a large queue of collectors waiting to come in and find that special bear or doll.
We were kept busy all day.

I managed to sneak away to buy some mohair, only to be called back by my willing assistant to tell me that a lady wanted to have one of my rainbow bears commissioned.
Thank you to the collectors who adopted my bears.
I caught up and had a chat with a few old friends and made some new ones too.

We had a lovely day.
Kerren x

This is Farley a new design.

LEEDS DOLL & TEDDY FAIR,

LEEDS DOLL & TEDDY FAIR,

2009 is the 28th Year of the 'Pudsey' Fair
Saturday 28th March 2009

Pudsey Civic Hall,

Dawson's Corner,

New Pudsey, Leeds LS28 - 5TA

150 metres from the junction of the A647 and Outer Ring Road A6110.

The fair is open from 10.30am until 4.00pm.

K M Bears will be on stand number 24,

If you can make it please come and say hello,

Kerren

Sunday afternoons walk along the Leeds and Liverpool canal

Sunday afternoons walk along the Leeds and Liverpool canal

We started our walk from our house approximately half a mile away from the canal; it is a pleasant walk along country lanes and past stone cottages.

We walked to the canal at Rodley and across the bridge on to the path. Quite a lot of barges are moored up between Rodley and Calverley bridge.

We passed the railway pub. I took forty-five photographs on our walk.

I love the smell of the wood burning stoves as you walk past the barges.

Canal walk part two

Public foot path to pack horse bridge

The Leeds and Liverpool canal follows the river Aire and the railway down the valley. We walked to Apperley Bridge and back

There are little white posts all the way along the canal with mile, half mile and quarter mile indicators on them.
Only 120 miles to Liverpool, so with my calculations its 127¼ miles from Leeds to Liverpool by canal.

A view of the railway bridge, almost there now!

It took us about two and a half hours to walk to Apperley bridge and back home. It was nice and sunny but very windy

Kirkstall Abbey

The weather was lovely today, I took a couple of bears to Kirkstall Abbey to photograph them.

I didn’t have time to visit the Abbey house museum.

The grass was carpeted with lilac and white crocuses, they looked beautiful.

The old cafe has been changed in to a visitors centre with little displays of the original buildings, showing how it looked when it was built.

I used to live within walking distance of Kirkstall Abbey. I must make time to visit again and take more pictures.

Panda monium

Here is my latest one of a kind creation, a little pand, named Mai Tai he is 13"(33cm) made from 1" long German shulte curly almost permed looking mohair in black and white colours.

He is filled with super polyester fibre, contains steel shot and pellets and has matching black ultra suede foot and paw pads, with black glass eyes and black and white eye surrounds.

Mai Tai has a black embroidered nose and is fully jointed and completely hand sewn. Available now,

He has not yet appeared on my web site, he is a little shy!