ADVENT CALENDAR 5th

Having known that I wanted to do the Advent Calendar with Hawthorn and Julie, I tried to keep a lookout for numbers over the last 12 months, but being me I kept forgetting.  Whilst in UK on holiday, they seemed to jump out at me more, so quite a few will be from this time.

DAY 5.

The sign says it all.  Yes, once again the walk we did at Gargrave.

CRAFT.

Do we call baking a craft?

I made this unbaked slice for the lovely family over the road as both a thank you gift & wishing them a merry Christmas.  M very nicely mowed our lawn just before we got back from our UK holiday and E fixed a broken nail for me.  She happens to be a nail artist & I'd had a split nail way down for a long time and as it grew it started catching on things.  Ugh!  The recipe come from this book.

My parents bought their first fridge in the early 50's when I was about 3 or 4 and this is the book that came with it.  It's had much use over the years from both my mother and I.
This is the page I use the most.

A little worse for wear these days.

OK, I just had to add this photo too.  One of my favourite roses is flowering well.  I have grown Julia's Rose in many of my gardens over the years.

This is pretty close to the actual colour, which verges somewhere between cafe latte to a dusky apricot/beige.  Hard to describe, but beautiful.  Good for flower arranging too.

Leaving you with a thought to be "nice to others", after witnessing a nasty incident in our main street today, which really surprised me.  Patience is a virtue they say, don't they?

I'll be back tomorrow with something cute, I hope.
Take care,
Susan.