The Artsy One: Countryside

The Goodbye Meal

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Wow, long time no see?!

Well I am here and back with some more content. As you are all fully aware I am awaiting my departure for University and the days are melting away at an alarming rate! As I will be leaving on Saturday, my family decided to have a leaving dinner for me and my Human as we are going together.

We had a Sunday lunch style meal ( obviously because it was a Sunday..) with my parents, siblings, uncle, grandparents, and step relations. The table was massive! I received a few gifts of cookbooks, snacks and obviously a bottle for freshers week (apple sour is apple ways Apple ways hit with me ;) ). It was lovely to have all the family together and having one last party before I leave.

Being a veggie, I passed on the beef and went straight for the vegetable lasagne option which was absolutely delicious. I was hoping for something a little more warming but this actually hit the spot. It was served with roasted vegetables and a side salad.

And as I was tucking into my herbivorous meal I decided to snap a pic of my Human's meal too, a delicious salmon dish which also smelt divine.

Now, it'd be just plain boring to not have dessert wouldn't it? And as great minds think alike, we decided to both have the chocolate brownie, with ice cream, a digestive crumble with raspberries and coulis with chocolate sauce. Just ahhhhh!

Oh I feel like a food blogger today hehe! But anyway our leaving meal was absolutely delicious and I would like to thank my lovely mum and step dad for oganising everything. And especially for the MASSIVE cake they brought for us, it was so sweet and I wasn't expecting such a fuss for my send off. Soft and spongy chocolate cake!

Hehe, this was a very foody style one but let me know if this kind of post is a breath of fresh air from the usual and I'll try and share some more tasty experiences. I will be updating a lot more frequent this next couple of weeks as this is when the ball gets rolling! I'm so nervous about leaving but I will talk about packing and what I'm taking soon. Let's just say it is really starting to become real..

Anyway, goodnight for now and be back soon!

Art

Country Show Time

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Well good morning everyone!

I know it's rare that I ever write in the morning but with some stuff to share and a day off work I'm going to make the most of it and talk about my experience at a country show yesterday. As I live in such a rural area this isn't something new for me and I've attended quite a few in my time, but with the weather being so glorious I couldn't not share a snap or two with you.

Away from the obvious horse, sheep and dog showing, shearing, birds of prey display and dog agility there stood a large white tent. This contained the craft, baking and homegrown produce. My heaven! I decided after reading the program that I wanted to enter something myself because when I go to uni I doubt I'll have the time. I decided to enter the 'Best painting of a butterly' section with one of my best efforts (just to be clear I literally never paint butterflies but this was the only painting catagory). When it comes to looking at the entries you never realise how many talented people there are around you.

There was gorgeous quilting and knitting, Welsh love spoon carvings, photography. And the baking table looked to die for. I really think it is so important for people to enter these kinds of smaller competitions because if your talent is quilting, then hell you can show it off. I know it isn't gallery style work but I just loved looking at all of the work and effort that went into producing all of the crafts and cookery that was around me. There was a real sense of community with so many entries and so much time spent on them. Sorry I'm waffling!

Anyway, I came second in my catagory of three entries so that wasn't bad ;D.

Obviously I didn't stay in the tent the whole time though, that'd be a waste of sunshine! I did take a look at the sheep awsell but they didn't seem too glad to see me..

Also tried some more abstract shots of the day but not too sure how it came out. (I'll spare you the rest of them ;) )

Also, we showed one of our dogs and she managed to get 2nd place, needless to say we were proud of her too!

But it's fair to say we had a lovely day in the extremely rare, blazing sunshine. It's easy to forget the interesting things around you, like the varieties of sheep, or the vast collection of local pooches, or the birds of prey that are present in the skies without us noticing or the craftsmen and women sometimes going unnoticed. It was a beautiful display of community and I hope I will be able to find this when I move! That's it for now and I hope you liked my little adventure. See you soon!

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