The Midland Hotel, Morecambe

Just spent the most wonderful night at The Midland Hotel, Morecambe. It's an art deco hotel that fell into disrepair & was refurbished about 4 years ago. It's a work of art.

Our room, definitely worth the upgrade!
The staircase, looking down, there's a beautiful shell mosiac at the bottom.

The staircase looking up, an Eric Gill frieze, 1 of 3 in the hotel.

Field of Flowers Shawl

Just finished this one, maybe to keep for myself, it's beaded & I just love the colour.

The purple on on a mannequin, am so pleased with the way this pattern turned out!

Looks like a ghost!

Burns Night Supper

We had a belated Burns Night Supper on Saturday, it was the first time we could get everyone together, all the lassies brought a course, the men provided the entertainment & wine.

The table before

The haggis being piped in....

The haggis

The address to the haggis

And there was dancing....

And the table afterwards....

February in the Lakes

Crafty Coven's morning out at Buttermere last Monday, cold but absolutely gorgeous day. We went to a newly refurbished coffee shop, can definitely recommend it, will be even nicer in the summer!
Snow on the tops

Beaded Field of Flowers

This is what the pattern looked like by the time I'd finished, bit big to fit in a kit, but it's now condensed onto 3 A4 pages & it seems to work!

This is it knitted in cream merino with beads in the centre of the flowers & up the stems

more piccies

We didn't get the northern lights last week, but this was the most beautiful sunset, of course it had been cloudy all day & then came out nice about 4pm - no use to anyone! The sky was a deep salmon pink, unfortunately didn't really capture it on the photo.

And then the next day this cloud just kept hovering, very atmospheric.

Santander Bank - compromised - Beware!

Was just trying to pay some credit cards online & was asked a mountain of security questions, gradually getting angrier & angrier, as it left you with this screen saying it was sending you a recipient number, whatever that is.

Eventually rang the bank & it turns out it was a fake website, so someone out there has all my personal details.

So awful, the bank is going to have to send new registration number & ID's but how do I change where I was born or went to school???