The days have been getting shorter and colder, with the average weekly temperature being about 14C.
The leaves have begun to change colour, and the rain is becoming more frequent.
This is the perfect weather to curl up and knit on the couch with the heating on, and snoring kittens snuggled into your lap.
Therefore I have done the sensible thing and begun running again. I have to run off all that warm winter food before I eat it! Then I’ll be ahead of the curve for next Summer! Go ME!
Otherwise titled: How to have an Adventure.
I once had a Little Book of Chaos where it advised that you should rip random odd pages out of your street directory in order to make life more interesting.
We may have heeded this advice a little too closely over the weekend.
I’d seen a poster for a medieval fair.
Being us we thought this looked AWESOME! And being in the nearby woods area, we decided to head on over after waking up on Sunday (during the heatwave).
Not being entirely sure where it was being held, we just walked and figured we’d come across it eventually. How could you miss it, we thought?
It seemed like an awful lot of our local community was out and about in the woods, walking in the shade in an attempt to escape the heat. Or swimming in the murky lake.
The light dappled the path through the green canopy, and when we got near the camping grounds, we found a few of these structures which appear to have been built by the bored kids over Summer.
There were some beautiful flowers all blooming in abundance in the sun and heat.
I have decided that I love thistles! They’re so pretty!
It was wonderful seeing new life sprouting from a felled tree.
And given all the canals, there is a predominance of water birds all over!
Have you noticed yet, that there are no pictures of the fair? Yeah. We discovered the hard way that the local woods are massive. We spent several hours walking in the heat, and only traversed the bottom third of the woods. It dawned on me then that I had the web address for the fair, and given that we live in the future with the internet on our phones …
We never made it to the fair. It was up the other end of the woods. Several kilometers away.
Oh well. Next year?
For the past few months we have been living in the centre of it all.
Very near here in fact.
And on the other side …
For the hell of it, this is a photo of garbage night in Amsterdam. This takes place twice a week, and the piles of rubbish along the tiny narrow streets average 5’ high, 3’ deep, and 20’ long. It’s an experience! Especially when you’re surrounded by pubs, cafes, and restaurants!
In one hectic weekend, we went out of town to a wedding. This involved driving for the first time in Continental Europe. It was an experience! Sorry for the blur, but my eyes were having trouble focusing on the drive back at 1am!
We caught up with some more tourists who I took for a brief tour around Amsterdam. (though this wasn’t technically on the weekend, but a few days later. They were at the same wedding on the weekend… does that count?)
We also moved all our stuff to a new, and yet still temporary, abode. This is now what’s down the road from us. Still a canal, but just a touch greener!
I can’t wait to discover what’s at the end of this path!
I’ve also been getting lots of fabulous old fashioned post! So now I just have to write back to you all! Thank you so much! I’ve missed having pen pals! 😀
ghoti industries 