Rocking Your World Friday - 6th of 2020

Good morning tis Friday time for

So last Friday I had a lovely catch up with my sister, she has been having a rough time of it recently and so it was good to catch up and put the world to rights.  She is making progress albeit very slowly.  

Saturday found us up and out of bed early as we had planned to head to York for their Ice Trail which was held over the weekend.  Unlike last year when we had had a touch of snow and were still suffering an amount of ice, this years was very windy and warm and obviously warm isn't something that you want for ice sculptures.  However, we got up their early and set too with the trail, slightly fewer this year than last year but still 40 to find spread all over the city.  

The level of detail always amazes me, such skill.  We had a lovely day together and by the time we'd finished the trail we had clocked in excess of 19,000 steps on my fitbit, so we went home happy but exhausted.  

My favourite sculptures from the day were probably the one that encased the white rose, which was stunning and Luna Lovegood's spectacles (from Harry Potter) outside an optician. 

This was the first one we found

Grouch was definitely melting fast, his bin was full of water

Luna Lovegood's spectacles

The rose

The city was buzzing at the end of the trail and we headed to the Castle Museum cafe when we came fully circle to our starting point, a bowl of leek and potato soup followed by a cup of tea were very welcome as you can imagine.  

We then decided (as we'd done the trail at a fair old pace) to head back and have a wander up and down the Shambles in York.  Obviously the Shambles is famous throughout the world but it definitely makes me giggle these days there are more and more shops selling all things Harry Potter that it has a real feel of Diagon Alley these days, including a new potions shop where you can get a hot chocolate with a chocolate frog on top.

It was busy as always

Our last stopping point had ice sculptures and this fabulous Gryffindor flag

We also came across a couple supporting their artist son and selling his prints, he trained as an architect but is now an artist and sells the most amazing prints/cards/coasters etc with a different take on a cityscape here is the link if fancy a look.  Needless to say I bought some of the cards as I'm still filling in gaps on the stairs, so will be on the look out for frames in the next couple of weeks.

We started the trail at Clifford's tower, always a site to behold in the middle of such an iconic city. 

Ended up on the edge of the river admiring the apartments across the way in the all mill building. 

And found this on our travels - it reminded us of Saltaire. 

Sunday was apparently a day of rest after our epic walk on Saturday, but to be honest we spent so long preparing foodstuffs for Sunday and the rest of the week, it didn't feel like we had too much time on our hands.  Hubby watched the rugby, catching up on the two games from Saturday and watching the England match live, he was frustrated with the England match to say the very least, but with final places at the Rugby world Cup, the issue with the Saracens pay cap and relegation and the supporters expectations it was obviously too much for them.  All I can say is thank goodness for Johnny May.

I've thoroughly enjoyed getting back into my scrapbooking recently, I'm churning layouts out at a merry old pace, having completed 2016 photos, I'm now ploughing on at a good rate of pace with 2017 photos, once they are done (and there are about 80 that need doing), I will set too on the 2018 photos and have the task of starting to sort the photos from that year, when I let everything go to pot and didn't sort my photo folders out.  More fool me for causing this issue if I'm honest, because it is going to take some sorting.  However on the plus side I will be happy to get everything ship shape on that front, being one of my new year resolutions, I do actually feel like I'm making good progress, so go me. 

Other positives this week, my gorgeous flowers that I picked up at the beginning of the week, hubby helping with an epic food shop.  Volunteers to help empty my Mum-in-laws house as we need to get it on the market and it isn't going to empty itself!

And that my lovely people is my lot from this week, I hope you've had a grand week, if you fancy joining in pop a post together come back and link up and we can come and visit.