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Rainbow Junkie

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Yay! An Outing

Recently, I and a few of my ‘Crafty Coffee’ Friday walking friends went to Hillier Gardens near Romsey. I didn’t think this could be called an Adventure like many of my previous posts about day’s out as I felt that an Adventure had to have some degree of jeopardy or new discovery and going somewhere… Read More Yay! An Outing

7 March 20227 March 2022 Rainbow Junkie6 Comments

A Little Outing including sea!

I haven’t been on a proper outing for over a year, if you don’t count going to visit my daughter’s family last September which was very local once I got there. So of course when they offered to pick me up to accompany them to The Hovercraft Museum in Lee-on-Solent I jumped at the idea.… Read More A Little Outing including sea!

15 June 2021 Rainbow Junkie11 Comments

Monthly Montage – March

Except for the book post, which was unusual, this month was a good mix of the things I tend to write posts about. Crochet of course: in the form of the start of working on a new bookmark pattern. Cooking: some ‘healthy’ cookies. Quite a bit of photography concerning an outing to Chessel Bay and… Read More Monthly Montage – March

31 March 2021 Rainbow Junkie2 Comments

Another shoreline

Although the beach along the river where I like to walk is rather brown,I have wondered if it is permissible to walk along it, to more fully indulge in the seaside experience. I did see a woman allowing her small son to paddle at the end of the walkway, where it is easy to get… Read More Another shoreline

15 March 2021 Rainbow Junkie6 Comments

A Fruitful Walk!

I always like walking with a purpose (not just ‘for exercise’) and today I had a reason to go to the Common. I did feel that I was maybe a bit late to the party but a few days ago, after reading Nana Cathy’s post I looked for blackberries. In lots of places the bushes… Read More A Fruitful Walk!

28 August 202028 August 2020 Rainbow Junkie8 Comments

A Day in Dorset

For those of you who follow Wild Daffodil’s blog as well as mine this will be something of a reprise, though as seen by a visitor who forgot to put the SD card in her camera! – I blame the uncertain weather, so many other things to think about, like what to wear and what… Read More A Day in Dorset

23 August 2018 Rainbow Junkie6 Comments

Sometimes you just want to wander!

Those of you who have been following me for a while might remember my ‘Adventure’ posts. However, when you have an outing sometimes “You just want to wander!” and so this is a record of some of that wandering. The weather has been so hot lately that it has actually put me off going very… Read More Sometimes you just want to wander!

23 July 2018 Rainbow Junkie10 Comments

What was I doing on Saturday?

I met up with my eldest and family and had a couple of meals and had fun in an Escape Room.  Although this is not my photograph and therefore I do not own the copyright I am sure the Escape Plan guy won’t mind as this can be considered  an advert. He was keen on… Read More What was I doing on Saturday?

6 November 2017 Rainbow Junkie8 Comments

A day in Chichester

Last Autumn I spent a day in Chichester. At the time I had so much photography to share, with my garden and the Photo Challenge, that I didn’t find a space to share my outing, though I have shared a few of the photographs in other contexts. In the morning when I arrived I wandered… Read More A day in Chichester

28 August 2017 Rainbow Junkie3 Comments

A Dorset Adventure in Five parts – Day five

My last full day in Dorset. I had decided that after my day of walking to Hardy’s Cottage and back it would be wise to plan a less energetic day in case I was feeling tired. I decided that I would go to the coast and had been trying to choose between Bridport and Lyme Regis… Read More A Dorset Adventure in Five parts – Day five

29 June 2017 Rainbow Junkie6 Comments

A Dorset Adventure in Five parts – Day four

Stinsford church, Thorncombe Woods and Hardy’s Cottage. Having had a bad migraine the evening before (maybe I was overdoing it after all!) I was pleased to find my head feeling much better as I set off. I had a leaflet that I had printed off the internet and I followed their walk to Hardy’s Cottage… Read More A Dorset Adventure in Five parts – Day four

22 June 2017 Rainbow Junkie4 Comments

A Dorset Adventure in Five parts – Day three

Cerne Abbas Tuesday was cloudy and not as hot as Monday but when you are going walking that is no bad thing. I had been to Cerne Abbas Giant viewpoint on the way back from Weymouth last summer and shared a couple of pictures. The rather hard to see Giant. However this time I was aiming to… Read More A Dorset Adventure in Five parts – Day three

15 June 2017 Rainbow Junkie6 Comments

A Dorset Adventure in Five parts – Day two

Last summer when I went to Weymouth with my granddaughter, Sandra of Wild Daffodil and I had arranged to meet, however circumstance intervened, but now I was coming back to Dorset we had another try and this time succeeded. Sandra very kindly offered to pick me up in her car and take me to somewhere… Read More A Dorset Adventure in Five parts – Day two

8 June 2017 Rainbow Junkie7 Comments

A Dorset Adventure in Five parts – Day one

Having had such a good time exploring Dorset from Weymouth with my granddaughter last summer, I felt there was more to see and so decided to spend a few days in Dorchester which would enable me more easily to visit places I had missed before. So on Sunday 21st May I set off to catch… Read More A Dorset Adventure in Five parts – Day one

2 June 2017 Rainbow Junkie4 Comments

Beer and Buses

I have a few more posts ready to be created that I could have shared with you but I decided to share what I was doing last Saturday as I was pleasantly surprised that the photographs I had taken, mostly in a hurry, weren’t too bad. I went with my daughter and family to the… Read More Beer and Buses

20 October 2016 Rainbow Junkie4 Comments

A week in Weymouth – part 2

On Wednesday I had planned a trip to the Hardy monument as it is not open earlier in the week. Open means a cafe and the chance to go to the top. Otherwise it stands there out in the open. Recent experience in walking in the countryside to well known locations or popular routes led… Read More A week in Weymouth – part 2

15 September 2016 Rainbow Junkie7 Comments

A week in Weymouth – part 1

First I have to say that I have discovered that it is so much harder to think about taking photographs when you are responsible for a granddaughter. So the following will not be my normal steady progression of photographs, more an ‘as and when’ record. I took a couple of photographs of the apartment we… Read More A week in Weymouth – part 1

8 September 20168 September 2016 Rainbow Junkie6 Comments

I had another adventure!

Well I suppose calling my outing adventures may seem over the top but when I was a child and I read the Famous Five books by Enid Blyton and other books by an author called Malcom Saville I longed to have adventures of my own. Then one day I realised that any outing could be… Read More I had another adventure!

28 July 2016 Rainbow Junkie6 Comments

Danube Adventure – Budapest by day

As in many other places we were taken around the city by coach and really taking pictures from a moving coach is rarely successful. So most of the pictures I have for you were taken when we were dropped off by the Fisherman’s Bastion and Matthias church and left to our own devices for a… Read More Danube Adventure – Budapest by day

3 December 2015 Rainbow Junkie6 Comments

Danube Adventure – Vienna

By this time I was beginning to feel quite tired and my daughter and I opted to buy ourselves lunch during the day so as not to have to return to the ship. So I hope that my photographs are still worthy of inspection. Actually it is hard to give a representative view of any… Read More Danube Adventure – Vienna

26 November 2015 Rainbow Junkie6 Comments

Danube Adventure – Salzburg

I have wanted to go to Salzburg for a long time, and not because of ‘The Sound of Music’ which it seems is the reason lots of people go. Saltzburg is not on the Danube so the ship stopped at Linz and we took a coach to Saltzburg. I wasn’t especially happy with the photographs… Read More Danube Adventure – Salzburg

20 November 2015 Rainbow Junkie4 Comments

Danube Adventure – Melk Abbey

Melk Abbey was amazing and I took lots of photographs though when we were being taken on a guided tour it was fairly speedy and I would have liked more time. I’ve been aiming for twelve photographs of each location but I have had to stretch to fifteen here. Melk is very much a working… Read More Danube Adventure – Melk Abbey

12 November 201530 November 2015 Rainbow Junkie14 Comments

Danube Adventure – Locks & Wacau valley

I am someone who tends to believe in saving the best to last so I am going to talk about the locks along the river Danube first as the photographs I took here were all taken in a hurry and just to give a memory. A lot of the time we went through the locks… Read More Danube Adventure – Locks & Wacau valley

5 November 201530 November 2015 Rainbow Junkie6 Comments

Danube Adventure – Dürnstein

On Wednesday we awoke at Dürnstein for a day when we would visit Dürnstein and Melk and travel through the Wachau Valley. This post is just about our time in Dürnstein.Dürnstein is best know as the place where Richard the Lionheart (King of England at the time of the third crusade) was held captive by… Read More Danube Adventure – Dürnstein

29 October 20153 November 2015 Rainbow Junkie5 Comments

Danube Adventure – Bratislava

The next day, Tuesday, we had sailed on to Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. I noticed on the whole of my trip that in these big cities the buildings seemed very large, too large to easily photograph in total even with a fairly wide angle lens, so I found myself very often taking pictures of… Read More Danube Adventure – Bratislava

22 October 2015 Rainbow Junkie8 Comments

Danube Adventure – Esztergom

Writing these posts is a great way of attaching my memories of the correct places. On Monday morning we awoke in Esztergom having sailed there over night. Still in Hungary, Esztergom was a lovely small city. The weather was very warm and sunny, almost too sunny for photographs and the sun was not always in… Read More Danube Adventure – Esztergom

15 October 2015 Rainbow Junkie6 Comments

Danube Adventure – Budapest at night

Another photography post! Well I did say I would continue the tale of my Danube cruise on Thursdays. The same evening we arrived on board the ship, we sailed out of Budapest. Up on deck we watched the beautiful sight of Budapest at night. Deciding on the right camera settings was tricky and I tried… Read More Danube Adventure – Budapest at night

1 October 2015 Rainbow Junkie15 Comments

Danube Adventure – Leaving and Arriving

If some of you are wondering why I have been a bit quieter lately it is because I have been away on a cruise along the Danube. We did have slightly unreliable internet access but of course reading blogs and commenting wasn’t as high priority as normal. With so many places to visit and things… Read More Danube Adventure – Leaving and Arriving

24 September 2015 Rainbow Junkie11 Comments

August Montage

In August I shared with you some more about what Louisa and I got up to while she was here, as well as three months worth of contributions to “Monochrome Madness” and various mandalas I had created over the years.I then shared with you the two crocheted cafeteire cosies I made for my daughter’s birthday.… Read More August Montage

31 August 201519 January 2016 Rainbow Junkie6 Comments

The Knitting Pattern Expedition

I was given some lovely blue/green 4ply sock wool. More than enough for a pair of socks! Now years ago my mother made herself a cardigan that I inherited, and love wearing, but which is getting a bit old and I had long planned to make a replacement.Now this wool seemed to be just the… Read More The Knitting Pattern Expedition

29 August 201529 August 2015 Rainbow Junkie11 Comments

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