an afternoon off

After a month of working non stop to get everything ready for the advent calender I started December with a clear scheduled and a good excuse for an afternoon of.

I roped in a friend for lunch in the pub and an afternoon walk.

We started at the Black Swan a very old pub in York. I had heard great things about the food and was not disappointed.

With full belly's it was time to get some exercise and work off our lunches. We walk the walls round York.

I'd forgotten to take my camera but luckily i persuaded my friend to take a few snaps with his fancy phone.

I don't know why these two have come out so small but they show an area of roman ruins round the back of York minster and the famous bile beans sign.

 This one is a rear view of the minster.

Finally as the light faded the Christmas lights shining on the river Ouse.

It was a lovely walk and we finished off our afternoon by watching the new Guardians of the galaxy.

Today I found a lovely pattern for the little Groot we see at the end of the film and couldn't wait to make one for myself, now I just need to find a pot.

This worked up very quickly. The pattern is written using American abbreviations. Its quite simple to follow but I did tweak it a bit in places.

Back to work and its another week of the advent calender coming up. Hope your all enjoying it so far. Heres a round up of this weeks patterns.