Forgive me if I'm repeating any photographs here... The cool Ford Anglia and the Dalek were by a lovely cafe in Matlock, best coffee! And cream tea.. very yum! Lumsdale Tearoom, definitely go in there next time your in Matlock.

Just over the road from there... Just realized I didn't Blog about Matlock, due to flu!! 

So over the road is a wonderful antiques market, fairly big.. was a wonderful look around history and old familiar things...

I have two family samplers, 1859 and 1876, both made by my great Grandmother.. maybe because of them I always check out others I see higher and thither.. 

This caught my eye, albeit up near the ceiling! Which meant people had to help, ladders, chairs, moving other things around, because me being an awkward girl, wanted it! 

It's the words .. I love the words ..

And just now, starting series 2, episode 2 of The Change, a great series.. this piece of music came up, love these words too!

Nick Drake, Place to Be

And! More photos from before Christmas, the Dalek near the cafe...

More from Matlock tomorrow friends..

... and Christmas elf footprints at my son's! Same elf as the year before, she came home December 1st, left some floury footprints it seems! How do we know it was flour? Grandson licks the white stuff to see what it was!

M.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Oscar Wilde 

Few more photographs from Sherwood Forest, and the shopping area before you enter the park, filled with eateries and craft stores...

Heard the word 'Paxes' the other day in a TV show, I hadn't heard the word in decades, in fact probably hadn't used it since school days .. 

It's a good word, maybe we should use it more, instead of talking around in circles, just agree to paxes, and move on! In British school slang, it's a call for a truce or an end to fighting.

Tattoo! Monday morning had an appointment in Nottingham with Gerry Carnelly, 

Only had two last year! One in January in Bewdley and the second one in Fuengirola.. 

I had been thinking of a scarab beetle, another Egyptian tattoo... Another link to my mom's father.. 

It is beautiful! He did an amazing piece of art work on my body, very very pleased...

I am slowing down now with the tattoos, I want one more large one, then maybe a few more smaller ones, then, I guess, I'll have to call it a day on my tats! Maybe eh!?!

Snow ice cold.. but only a few flakes of snow, some ice hung around on the ground for a few days, but after last night's rain that's all gone now... Or so it seems... I was so scared walking on Monday, after falling over in November it'ls made me so nervous! I got the train into town, and a guy was gritting the steps and platform, he told me he has to take photographs of the grit on the platform, because some staff say they're gritting and don't?? What the hell? Why wouldn't you do this it job? I don't understand at all!

I had such a beautiful dream earlier, just taking a siesta, was watching something on tv, and feeling incredibly tired .. (must sort out this problem!)

In my dream I was in my old childhood home of my stepdads, I knew he and my mom were somewhere nearby, I was in the living room, talking with someone, and a piece of music started playing, Maña, Vivir Sin Aire..  And then we were dancing, close and happy, and all and everything was right with my world.

M.

Sometimes the best memories are the most painful

Isn't this the truth... They really are..