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Jul

11

Wild Foxgloves

As you may have seen from my previous post – I went to the Lake District last weekend. If you’ve never been before, you really should at some point. Don’t go expecting lovely weather, you won’t always get it, but there will probably be a few pockets of glorious sunshine during which the whole landscape appears to sing. It isn’t called the “Lake District” for nothing. It will inevitably rain on you at some point…

Whilst out walking either in woods, on stony crags or on pathways through bracken, these pink spiralling wild foxgloves stems kept appearing. Wild Foxgloves (Digitalis Purpurea) seem to thrive in the Lake District’s mixed climate, some were well over two metres tall. Those taken in the last picture were about two and a half metres high, in a big clump in the woods. Other shorter foxgloves appeared all over the place, dotted inbetween the bracken, which you might just be able to make out from the second picture.

It was good to have a break from the usual floral activities here in Durham, but I was glad not to leave floral eye-candy completely behind. These foxgloves cheered me along our climbs, which I needed (along with Maoam supplies) as the level of my unfitness became apparent…

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Jun

30

English Meadows

Adventure / flowers / Nature / Photography / Summer / wild

On Saturday, we went for a lovely walk through painted fields of blue, white and red, of poppies, cornflowers and those other white daisy flowers I can’t remember the name of. It was totally gorgeous. I have a slight obsession with having my photo taken in fields of poppies. I’ve only managed it once before, just after graduation week at University. The photos I have aren’t great, but they are special to me.

Samuel the Spaniel had a great time on his super long lead, running around chasing trails of rabbits and nothingness. We had a lovely time too, until the hayfever attacked…. Oh my, I just could not stop sneezing! The only thing that helped was eating, and the only thing we had to eat was Maoam. I ate so much Maoam. I was a hyperactive sneezing machine, totally out of control. After such a serious dose of hayfever (despite taking all my tablets) it stuck with me for the rest of the day. I had a tight chest and a closed throat. It was actually quite frightening.

I know what you’re thinking. Hilarious – a florist with hayfever, but I think I’m allergic to grass pollen, as it’s only when I’m in big fields that I suffer as much as I do. Anyone else struggle with this over the weekend? I heard the pollen count was particularly high.

In other news – did you notice a difference in the quality of my images this week? I hope so. I might be a bit behind on this one, but I spent flipping ages trying to figure out how to get good quality images on blogger. I’ve sussed it now, and I’ll only let you know my secret if you ask me nicely.

Can you spot Avril in one of the photos?

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Jun

06

A Yorkshire Based Camper Van Adventure

Adventure / Camper Van / Home Life / Springer Spaniel

This weekend we took some time off. We wanted to make the most of the sunshine, but instead made the most of 10 degrees, rainy, cloudy weather with a mini adventure in our t25. We camped at a lovely small campsite by a waterfall, called Yore House Farm – we paid just £4 each for the pleasure of the use of a breezeblock toilet area and had a chilly, but fun night. It was the first time we’ve slept in Avril the Camper.

The next day, we visited Wensleydale Cheese Centre at Hawes, which was pretty awesome and after tasting various types of cheese (probably over 20), we had a taste for adventure and headed up over Buttertubs pass. Before driving it, we didn’t realise it was 25 degrees roads, but we did it none the less, both the accelerator and the brakes were well tested…

We let Sam the Spaniel take the wheel for a while, but he lost interest pretty quickly!

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Apr

03

Wonderful & Exciting New Shoots

Adventure / Business Footsteps / busy / News

It’s been a long time since I last wrote a blog. That’s because there’s been a lot happening, and I’ve been saving up a whole bunch of exciting news to tell you…

For those of you who know me in person, this may not come as a surprise, but I have big news to share about my life and Floral Footsteps… Currently, I work full time for an ethical web company based in the North East. You might have heard of some of the websites; Ethical Superstore, Natural Collection and OneGoodMarket. You might have even read my blogs on them?(!) Alongside this, the Floral Footsteps seed was planted about a year ago and has been growing ever since. I have squeezed in as much floristry, illustration and photography as I can, but there really is only so much you can do when you work elsewhere full time. So I took the plunge. I’ve handed in my notice at work and I’ll be leaving on Maundy Thursday(!).

This has been brewing for some time, but handing in my notice was incredibly daunting and yet totally relieving. Floral Footsteps will now been taking up much more of my time – I can’t wait! I’m not plunging into full time self employment right now, and hoping to work part time in the week, but I’ll be able to fulfill orders without needing to stay up until Midnight preparing them, be able to take on more work and be able to blog more of my adventures!

Here’s to the beginning of something beautiful. If you’re reading this – I hope you’ll stick around and read again. Bookmark me, follow me on twitter or follow this blog (that will make me very happy). It’s going to be quite an adventure – I’ve got so much to share with you!

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Mar