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Sometimes you just want a breakaway to warm spot with lovely beaches, friendly people and fun activities. Aguadilla is the perfect choice for such a breakaway. The weather is always warm and sunny, and there is always plenty to do in the out of doors. A well-appointed holiday rental home in Aguadilla can serve as a comfortable home base for all of your Caribbean adventures.
When you choose to holiday to a place like Aguadilla, it is likely that you plan to spend a good amount of time at the beach. The beaches in and near Aguadilla are beautiful. You will find soft sand and warm water. You will be able to enjoy swimming, boating and diving. There are many wonderful diving spots located near Aguadilla and organised diving excursions are available. Fishing charters are available as well. You can also enjoy the beach on horseback with rides along tropical coastal trails. Bicycles are available for rent, and this is the preferred method of transportation for many in the area. Golf and tennis facilities are also available. While ice skating probably isn't what you think of when planning a holiday to a tropical paradise, there is an indoor ice skating rink located near Aguadilla. This is a unique way to spend an afternoon during your warm weather breakaway.
Aguadilla is home to historic attractions as well as family-friendly offerings. The Parque Acuatico Las Cascadas is a water park that offers pools and water rides for visitors of various ages. This is a fun way to keep cool and spend a day with your family. The Punta Borinquen Lighthouse was constructed in 1889 to help keep sailors safe as they passed by the coast. Today it stands as a reminder of the rich history of this region. Historic churches, such as the Cathedral San Carlos also dot the landscape.
The weather in Aguadilla is one of the area's best features. No matter when you visit you will find mild weather that is perfect for enjoying time in the out of doors. The year round average low temperatures are between 20° and 23° C and the year round average highs are between 29° and 32°. There is between 65 and 191 mm of rain per month.
The closest airport to Aguadilla is Rafael Hernandez Airport (BQN), which is just 8 km away. Eugenio Maria de Hostos Airport (MAZ), is located 19 km from Aguadilla and Mercedito Airport (PSE), is about 78 km away. You will need a car for use during your stay.


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The beginnings of the profession can be traced back to the medieval era. French noblemen left the care of their castles, its residents, and their guests in the hands of an individual. These persons were called the "keepers of the candles" or "comte des cierges" in French. They were entrusted with the keys of the castle. Although the job today still entails making either the stay or travel of an individual memorable, it has gone beyond this level of service.
Concierges are often masters of the ins and outs of their locale. They know how to get their clients to places that interest them, they know people who can facilitate the unique and challenging needs of the people they serve. The really good ones seem to be capable of nearly anything, both the unusual and the impossible. All high-class reputable hotels have these cordial quick-thinking people in their employ. They are most often recognized as the face of the institutions they serve.
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What a modern-day practitioner of this profession does depends largely on the type of institution or facility employing him or her. This is due mainly to the fact that the needs of the clients of these facilities vary. Thus, the responsibilities of those who work for a hotel varies somewhat from those who work for cruise ships, casinos, resorts, private individuals, corporations, and so on.
There are duties and responsibilities, however, which are common across the board. Foremost among these is communicating with the facility or institution's customers. They are often the people these customers go to when they have concerns or needs they want met. These communications are done in person, over the telephone, and, more recently, over the Internet.
Another common responsibility is being an information resource on how to enjoy the services offered by a facility, as well as those found in its surrounding areas. Concierges are expected to be able to know the best possible routes from one point to another, whether by foot, by public transportation, or by private vehicle. People expect them to be able to know where to find events, tourist spots, destinations, and other things that they may be interested in.
In connection to being a reliable source of local information, part of the job is to be able to book customers into different events, to make reservations for them at their intended destinations, or to acquire the requisite tickets. They can also help make appointments or assist in arranging their customer's itinerary so that the client can make the most of his or her stay.
There are several key skills that concierges need to master. One is the ability to navigate. They know about local museums, shopping districts, tourist attractions, and even where to get a cup of the kind of coffee the customer craves. More importantly, they know how to get there regardless of the means of transportation preferred. They can also help the customer understand this in an accessible manner. Part of this is being able to show the destination's location on the map, what route to follow, and the landmarks along the way.
People in this level of the hospitality industry also have good language skills. They often know all or nearly all of the local dialects, and one or more foreign languages. Concierges today work in teams under a Chief Concierge and seldom work alone. Thus, there is usually one among them who can communicate well with the customer. This is particularly helpful for those who are employed in the travel industry.
It is quite frequent that a customer makes an unusual request which little is known about. This means that in order to successfully serve the customer, good research skills are necessary. This includes knowing whom to ask about particular questions and being able to gauge the reliability of the information obtained.
Above all, the profession needs excellent customer service skills. Talking to people and helping them is an inescapable and inherent characteristic of the job. Those who show promise in this profession are pleasant and sociable. This characteristic is natural or cultivated by those interested in working in this field. This is useful in networking with others who may be of help in getting that exclusive theater performance ticket, for instance.
Concierges are no longer limited to hotels and resorts. They are found working in cruise ships, for travel companies, corporations, community care facilities, and even private individuals. They work in teams headed by Chief Concierges. Various aspects of the job are assigned to certain team members, so the workload is distributed and easier to accomplish. Furthermore, some companies offer concierge services to private individuals and companies. This means that going into private practice, and then later owning one's own company, is a distinct possibility.

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Enhancements help automate software license compliance as companies migrate to new technologies and implement sophisticated enterprise apps
Maidenhead, UK - January 8, 2013 Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for application producers and enterprises, announced today a significant upgrade to FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises, its market leading Software License Optimisation solution. The release provides substantial new capabilities empowering enterprises to manage complex licenses, maintain software license compliance and optimise license usage in virtual environments, the cloud, and across enterprise software estates.
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Enhancements to FlexNet Manager Suite provide powerful new capabilities to help ensure license compliance in virtualised and cloud environments. A new FlexNet Manager Platform inventory adapter enables companies to collect the necessary data and optimise desktop software licenses for applications running in the Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment. Access rights and usage data are now captured by the product to establish a license position, helping companies ease the license management burden and reduce their license compliance risk when implementing VDI.
"Companies increasingly are demanding that business applications be readily available across a wide variety of devices, and as a result they are adopting Citrix Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to facilitate easier distribution and consumption of software," said David Moxey, Senior Director of Marketing and Strategy at Citrix. "Companies implementing this new user paradigm must consider the software license management implications. FlexNet Manager Suite enables proactive license management and compliance for Citrix customers deploying our XenDesktop VDI offering, making license management of virtualised applications significantly easier."
Moreover, FlexNet Manager Platform now encapsulates the license mobility product use rights of major vendors such as IBM, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Symantec and Adobe, to help ensure companies can maintain license compliance both on-premise and in the cloud. License mobility use rights dictate how a software product can be moved across devices within the organisation, or to a service provider hosting applications in a public or private cloud. This new capability reduces the risk that companies moving to public or private clouds will be hit with unbudgeted software audit true-up expenses.
"Very few organisations understand the complex and varied rules that software vendors have put into place for applications moving into virtual and cloud environments. Moreover, these rules are fluid and constantly evolving as cloud-based computing gains in popularity," said Alan Swahn, Vice President of Product Management at Flexera Software. "FlexNet Manager Suite now provides the most comprehensive solution in the marketplace for organisations seeking to optimise licensing and maintain license compliance in a wide variety of on-premise and cloud scenarios."
Additionally, FlexNet Manager for IBM now offers enhanced functionality to calculate IBM Processor Value Unit (PVU) consumption in VMware server cluster environments. License consumption can fluctuate depending on the location of the virtual machines on physical hosts - creating license compliance challenges for organisations running IBM software. FlexNet Manager for IBM can now calculate a maximum consumption figure to help ensure customers are always compliant with their IBM license agreements.
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FlexNet Manager Suite also contains significant new enhancements providing powerful license optimisation capabilities for complex enterprise application licenses. For instance, FlexNet Manager for SAP® Applications now automatically collects licensing metrics for SAP packages, such as CRM, Environment, Health & Safety Management (EHS), Governance and Recruiting, etc., and uses its product use rights library to calculate SAP package license consumption. Unexpected true-up costs can arise from lack of visibility into SAP package license consumption - so these enhancements, in combination with existing functionality to manage SAP named user licenses, provide the most comprehensive approach available for optimising a SAP software estate.
In addition, the FlexNet Manager Platform now provides a new Oracle Application User license model. This enhancement enables easier license management for most Oracle E-Business Suite applications and gives enterprises a more comprehensive solution for controlling costs for their Oracle software licenses. E-Business Suite license management complements the Oracle database license optimisation capability already built into FlexNet Manager Platform. It is verified by Oracle to provide an accurate, independent assessment of database inventory and usage, and its reports can be used to support an organisation's compliance position in an Oracle software license audit.
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Kun An has high expectations for students enrolled in Randolph's Chinese program. "It's my goal that, at the end of the first year, I could drop you in China, and I wouldn't have to worry about you," she tells her students.
That is a tall order. The Chinese language is often cited as one of the hardest languages to learn. But An combines a rigorous curriculum, focused tutoring, and technology to help students grasp the language quickly.
And it works. Just ask Brittany Eubanks '09. When Eubanks graduated from Randolph, she decided to move to China to live and work.
"It is a hard language, but if you really want to learn it, Professor An is the person who can teach you," Eubanks said.
Eubanks arrived in China without solid plans. During the first year, she had several internships, taught enrichment classes on weekends, and volunteered. Last year, she began working in the branding and communications department for Lenovo, a computer company based in Beijing.
Although she was across the world, Eubanks continued to seek advice and guidance from An. Last fall, An asked Eubanks to return to Randolph to share her experiences with current students. Eubanks accepted the invitation because she wanted to assist the program that had prepared her for success in China.
Fifteen years ago, An moved from China to the United States as part of a faculty exchange program. She stayed in America to earn her Ph.D.
After teaching Chinese at Princeton University for five years, An turned down job offers from West Point and other schools to teach at Randolph.
"I felt that I could contribute something here by building up the Chinese program," An said. "I was amazed by the students. I still am."
She applies Princeton's Chinese curriculum and teaching pace, and the Randolph students keep up. But An also develops ways to help students learn more quickly. Every student in Chinese language classes receives weekly tutoring sessions with a native Chinese-speaking student. Class members also sit at a designated table during lunch each Friday. This helps students perfect their tone, which is one of the most demanding aspects of learning Chinese, An said.
Memorizing detailed written characters is another difficult part of learning Chinese. An has her students use computer programs to write Chinese so they can spend more time speaking and reading.
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A toddler was raped, but as horrific as the thought is, those who raped her shouldn't be punished. You see, her attackers were just boys -- 7- and 9-year-old boys who shouldn't even know what rape is. Someone is to blame, but it's not them.
It happened in Memphis this past summer. The 2-year-old victim's brother, 5, saw it occurring and told his mom. Thank goodness he did. While the boys first blamed each other, they later admitted to the crime.
The boys are due in court today where prosecutors are recommending they be removed from their families' homes and placed in state custody for treatment, not punishment. They want to determine what these boys have been exposed to that would make them do this to another child. James Sanders, the attorney defending the 9-year-old boy, told the Memphis Commercial Appeal:
What happened to this victim is horrible, nobody is minimizing that. But my client has a lot of problems and needs some immediate help. Somebody's got to rescue this kid.
Someone has to rescue them all.
This is one of those stories that I recount through tears, because it's so awful and so unimaginable that such vile, evil things can happen to innocent children. And really, at this point, all three should still be innocent. Something has to be very, very wrong in one's life for a mind that young to be infected like this.
But as much as I don't want to blame these boys because of their age, where do we draw a line? Is there really an age at which one suddenly should be able to account for his tragic background, overcome what he's been exposed to, and now be able to stand up and do the right thing? Yes, we have to expect that, but we also have to expect that some won't be able to. It doesn't in any way make what the victim suffered any less horrifying or their actions justifiable in the least, it just make the whole situation more tragic.
Do you think these boys should be punished?
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I think these boys parents should be punished! Where did these boys learn this from? I dont know the age in which there should be a line... I also agree that the boys need help, fast!
wow! they knew what they were doing they should be punished!
I think a punishment and treatment is needed for these boys. Although they may be too young to realize that this is wrong, it can't feel right to them either. Obviously they knew it was wrong since they blamed eachother at first. I am deciding if it's time to tell my child about the birds and the bees even at her young age of 5 years old. Obviously I won't tell her all the details but just a general knowledge since I am so scared of turning my back for a minute and someone at school, church or even in our own backyard may be abusing her. My heart goes out to the parent of the toddler. How must she be feeling right now? Does she want hard criminal punishment for these boys or does she just feel sorry for them? It's definitly some mixed emtions here. Whatever does happen I just pray that other families will learn from this. What if her brother didn't tell on the boys? What if seeing this her brother thought it was okay to do this to his sister and started to do this as well? There could be many more worse ways this could have went down. I would give that brother the "World's Best Brother" award if there was one. He deserves it.
This is just too awful! I agree with the above comment that if the boys were trying to blame each other, then they knew it was wrong...there should be some sort of punishment, but these boys definitely need help!


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Clearly Lovely: Modern Clear Stained Glass
Clear stained glass is beautiful, clean and elegant. It lets in plenty of light, and unlike its colored counterpart, it doesn't feel old-fashioned. From ancient churches to 20th century architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, stained glass has proved it's a classic that's here to stay.
In addition to beauty, clear stained glass also has a practical purpose. It offers privacy while still allowing much light to pass through. This is true of panels with a high density of bevels, iron work or texture, like the one in Photo 3.
Shown above from left to right:
1. Geometric Double Bevel Arrow Tail, $115.00 from Halona Glass
2. No More Tears Clear Iridescent Stained Glass Panel, $175.00 from Stained Glass Turtle
3. Large All Beveled Stained Glass Window, $175.00 from Deb's Glass Art
4. Tilted Clears Stained Glass Window Panel, $76.00 from Love of Stained Glass
5. Beveled Star & Clear Textures Stained Glass Window Panel, $89.00 from The Glass Shire
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oooh, i like the idea of clear stained glass. very pretty and timeless.
If it's clear, it isn't stained. "Clear stained glass" is an oxymoron, unless you mean transparent colored glass. Transparent, beveled, textured, or decorative might make the communication more... clear.
But...if it's clear, then why are you calling it stained?
leaded beveled glass?
I worked with Eve of Eve's Creations of Glass http://www.etsy.com/shop/EvesCreationsofGlass to create a custom piece similar to that shown in photo #3, but with some colored pieces. I was thrilled with the outcome.
I don't care that others have already pointed this out, it's "leaded glass", not "clear stained glass".
You have to be careful with too many different textures -- things can cross over to tacky-ville pretty quickly. But I love the first chevron-esque one. And I'm always a fan of anything Frank Lloyd Wright, of course!
If it is clear wouldn't it be leaded glass?
Yea, not stained glass. I think you mean cut glass......
I'm glad that bothered everybody else.
Very pretty!
"It lets in plenty of light, and unlike its colored counterpart, it doesn't feel old-fashioned" because ewww that would be icky.
the clear/stained distinction should have been obvious from the start
Hi! Thank you for including my piece :)
You are actually correct in calling it stained glass. Stained Glass is now an all encompassing term in regards to all glass work made via the copper foil method or leaded style.
In fact, the colored glass you now think of for stained glass is called "art glass". But stained glass as a term came about during the medieval period where they used clear glass, then painted the designs on and baked it in a kiln to set it.
Thanks again for including me! I love clear glass and bevels especially. So modern and clean.
Halona Glass is right.
I work for a professional stained glass studio, and we call it stained glass regardless of color. Even a window in a door that's entirely clear glass with a bevel cluster is still "stained glass."
And these are lovely. One day when things settle down, I'm going to make myself a prairie school styled piece for my own home.
I was wondering if the blogger knew something I didn't... the more you know! I like the middle one best.
Sorry, it will never be stained glass to me. Just more lazy language usage. Wouldn't it continue to be helpful to customers, as it has been for centuries, to distinguish among types of art glass so they will know when a product has color or Iridescence or paint, or is completely transparent? I'm sure there are also manufacturers of plastic laminate floors calling them "wood floors." Yes, many of them look like wood, but they're not, just as many things called "leaded glass" are not.
i just clicked on the comments so i could see how many people complained about the dodgy clear stained glass business. glad i have company!


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Each year the Museum runs a programme of special events in the beautiful surroundings of Broadheath. The programme brings together talks, recitals and entertainment for music lovers as well as for visitors who just want to find out a little more about the life and times in which Elgar lived.
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The 2014 Donald Hunt Lecture Series ~ From a Keats Poem to Painting and Music: Elgar, Frank Bridge and Millais
Jenny Hughes studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Madeleine Windsor and Susan Bradshaw. She taught music in schools, was a piano tutor in the Music Department of the University of Leeds, and was Head of Music at what is now the University of Worcester for many years. She continues to perform both as a solo pianist and as an accompanist, and now lives in London. She currents directs a staff choir in Belmarsh Prison.
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Tue 14 October
The 2014 Donald Hunt Lecture Series ~ Sharing The Concert Platform
In his long and illustrious career Donald Hunt has worked with scores of the world's top musicians. Here he talks about his experiences with celebrated conductors and singers.
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The Music Makers - A conductor's perspective of a choral masterpiece
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Tickets free, donations for the Elgar Birthplace Museum are welcome.
Thur 30 October
A Sound of Autumn
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Sun 2 November
Bonfires, Fireworks and Fawkes: A Seasonal Craft Workshop
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Tue 11 November
The 2014 Donald Hunt Lecture Series ~ Elgar and the Great War: A Composer's Road to Silence
A talk on the life and works of Elgar during the years of the First World War, given by the musician Simon Baggs. The presentation will include musical illustrations taken from works written by Elgar during the period of the conflict, as well as live performances.
Tickets £6.00 per talk or £42.00 for the series. Refreshments included.
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Tue 9 December
The 2014 Donald Hunt Lecture Series ~ Sir Edward Elgar's Jokes and Japes
Dr John Harcup OBE, Chairman of the West Midlands branch of the Elgar Society, reveals the humorous side of Elgar in this fascinating talk that draws our 2014 series to a close. Laughter guaranteed.
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Sat 20 December
A Musical Christmas
Discover Magic Lanterns, create your own, and see a wonderful lantern show. Plus traditional Christmas crafts!
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I have now reached the stage in my life where looking round gardens (preferably with the chance of a cup of tea and even cake) seems like a very nice thing to spend my time doing .
This weekend was the Marsden Open Gardens day so myself and friend Sharon from knitting spent a lovely afternoon sampling the delights of our green fingered fellow residents.
There were some really stunning gardens and it is hard to pick a favourite, it was amazing to see what people had done, particularly as a few were transformations of fields or rough ground and done with such great imagination.
This was the first one and perhaps will have to be my favourite because of the medieval theme, look at that little tower with the fabulous door (and the very cute ginger cat!).
However this one over the road – a transformation from field as in the top picture of next door to Japanese garden with a little hideaway complete with amazing views comes a close second.
There were some very stunning plants and cute garden seating as well.
And more beautiful views, I loved this garden on one of the roads out of the village which backs onto the moors.
This is one I see regularly as it is next to my bus stop.
And this beautiful Japanese style one is next to the river where I often go walking.
An excellent afternoon out, I am so lucky to live here.
I never get tired of how beautiful the countryside is around us and it was lovely to see some of the other beauty here and admire all the hard work of the proud garden owners, thanks to everyone who was kind enough to let us visit.
I will be away this weekend at another event (yippee!!!) helping some friends with their show at a local country fair so am hoping for very lovely weather for that.
Hope you have nice things planned for your free time and thanks for visiting.
One of the things I really enjoy is seeing beautiful gardens and taking pictures of flowers.
I am waiting for my lilies to bloom here (and hoping that the sheep don't eat them) and though I only have a small garden don't miss the work involved in having more space and am quite happy to visit other gardens or just admire those all around me.
This is such a gorgeous time of year as all my favourite rhododendrons are in flower here in Marsden and all the gardens of the properties we visited this week were looking lovely.
These pictures were taken at Kingston Lacey in Somerset.
They also had some very cute pigs to feed in the kitchen garden!
And these were at Knightshayes in Devon.
I love those water lilies, they just look so perfect they don't look real.
Have spent part of the morning sorting out the 285 photos I took (don't worry I won't post them all!) and will have some lovely textiles to show you later in the weekend.
Thanks for visiting and hope the sun is shining where you are :-)
Hello everyone
Well I am having a lovely autumn here, am not going to be going to China anytime soon now so I am making the most of the season in the UK with some more lovely walks, practising being a domestic goddess and still more bunny knitting :-)
Have been busy baking cakes and crumbles, cooking stews and soups and have just taken possession of a new cookbook, Paul Hollywood's Bread – inspired by watching The Great British Bake Off. Today I made some delicious Stilton and bacon rolls from this recipe and have lots more great ideas for the coming weeks.
You will notice I also have a pumpkin all ready for the now obligatory pumpkin soup with melting cheese - yum, yum.
I have just sent off another bunny, this one is a very special one as it is a present for one of my daughter's very good friends.
Ellie is being a bridesmaid this weekend for her school friend Charlotte and the bunny is a present for Charlotte's daughter Elizabeth. I was asked to make the dress in the same colours as the bridesmaids will be wearing and added a little hairband as well.
Here are some photos of a beautiful cottage garden from a walk on the hills above my house a couple of weeks ago. There were some donkeys in the field next to the house as well, looking very cute.
Also went to my favourite reservoir, they have partly drained it as they are doing some work so went right down to the water.
It is the Marsden Jazz Festival this coming weekend so I will be manning the Box Office all weekend. Looking forward to it and hoping for very good weather, we have had beautiful sunshine just lately :-)
Hope you have a lovely weekend whatever you are doing and thanks for visiting.
Hello again
I have found a new addiction, I think I am just going to keep on knitting these bunnies as they are such fun to do.
I have long admired Julie's (Little Cotton Rabbits) work and was very excited when she released the bunny pattern on Ravelry a while ago.
Do go and look at all the ones she has made on her blog, I have got lots of inspiration from looking at the colours she uses and have got some different ideas for my next few.
My first bunny and 2 dresses are finished and I have cast on for the second one.
Julie's original pattern has stripy legs and body so it looks like the bunny is wearing tights – I left that out of the first version to make it easier but am confident I know what I am doing now so will add underwear to the next ones!
Luckily I have lots of people to give bunnies to as we have lots of young children in the family now as well as friends with little ones so I will have homes for my bunnies to go to!
What I love about this is how quickly you can do it- am not a fan of large projects and the parts of the bunny are so quick even for a slow knitter like me.
As well as the basic pattern I bought the pattern for the extra dresses again from Ravelry, the spotty sleeveless dress pattern comes included with the bunny and the other dress is an adaptation of the cap sleeved lace hem dress. I also added the white border to the spotty dress as the original one was a bit short.
I made the lace hem dress looser by doing another repeat of the lace pattern, made it a lot longer by adding rows to the skirt, added a white band at the waist when I gathered it in by using decreases and used bigger needles to knit the top to make it looser.
I am now feeling a lot more confident about how patterns 'work' so know how to do these simple changes.
I have left the back of both dresses open as the bunny is a present for a small child and that makes it easier to undress.
Julie's patterns are brilliantly written with lots of step by step pics on every detail including the stuffing so even the bits that look tricky, like the shoes, aren't at all.
I am going to try some of the other designs for my next dress – the spotty one was my first go at colourwork and despite the back looking at bit messy it came out ok.
I am going to have a lovely time for the rest of the summer!
I have also been doing quite a lot of garden fettling – forgot to take a before pic but at the back of the house there was a very overgrown rockery with two foot high dandelions and nettles which now looks like this.
I have planted some clematis and jasmine at the back so hopefully next Spring I will have some lovely climbers up the wall. I don't miss having my old garden at all but do miss my clematis.
The hanging baskets back and front are looking lovely – due to inclement weather we haven't made much use of the new table and chairs but I'm hoping it will stop raining soon :-)
I do love my new little house so much – just the right amount of gardening to do, planting nice things and a bit of weeding and watering and no hedges or lawns!
Right am off to do more knitting – thanks for visiting.
Hello again
I spend a lot of time travelling to all sorts of beautiful parts of the globe so it was lovely to have week in my gorgeous country appreciating (along with many tourists from all over the world) what England has to offer.
Our first day was spent in the Cotswolds where I grew up and the visit to Bourton-on-the-Water brought back many happy memories of paddling in this stream, seeing the pretty cottages and visiting the model village (which Kerry loved just as much as I did when I first saw it).
We then went to Snowshill Manor, a National Trust property in the Cotswolds, quintessentially an English manor house with beautiful gardens but home to a very eclectic collection by the last owner Charles Paget Wade.
There was everything from samurai warrior suits to old bikes, including many beautiful Oriental chests from his travels. One room had a lovely collection of textiles including what looks like a piece from a Layton jacket!
I particularly liked this sampler book showing miniature garments, no information on its maker but I think it would be a for a similar purpose to the one that inspired the Blackbird Designs book, 'A Stitcher's Journey', which I posted about previously, to show prospective employers your needlework skills.
A lovely day out – and all in the best of English summer sunshine!
Thanks for visiting, more historic loveliness soon!
Hello everyone
I arrived back from China last Tuesday and on Thursday we went to Worcester for Ellie's graduation so I thought I would share a few photos of that with you.
My Mum came over from Spain for the week and so she was able to be here for the ceremony and Jake came down from Middlesbrough so we had a lovely few days with the family.
We stayed with my sister who lives in Worcester where Ellie was at University so had chance to catch up with her as well and after the graduation Mum and I went to Powis Castle with Ellie for an overnight stay. A very lovely weekend of family fun!
Here she is with her friends throwing their hats and with her very best friend at University, Becky.
Also I couldn't resist the chance to get a photo of Ellie with this lovely door – the ceremony was held in Worcester Cathedral which was one of the reasons she chose to study there as not only is it a wonderful venue but also King John (who she studied at A level for her Medieval History) is buried there.
I am very, very proud of her, not only for her hard work at University but also for her dedication to her new job.She is doing lots of exciting things to help Powis Castle get ready for Christmas and is very busy with that and interpreting the kitchens and other areas of the castle to make them appeal to younger visitors. Their Christmas theme is 'Once Upon a Time' which is based on fairy tales so if you are in the area please go and visit.
She is also now working on their social media sites so do take a look at their Facebook page for more inspiring pics.
These are a couple of pics I took in the gardens yesterday, it was a beautiful day and the autumn colours were brilliant.
While I was in Worcester I took the opportunity to visit a couple of quilt fabric shops and have added a bit to my stash, mainly Christmas fabric but also a few other bits that I couldn't resist :-) Will take some photos when we get some daylight!
Have so many pics from China to sort so will be doing that over the next couple of weeks to put up a new page about this trip.
Hope you have a very nice week ahead and thank you for visiting.
Some years ago in 2009 I did a post entitled 'Home alone ……. with a pumpkin' as both the kids were away and I was making pumpkin soup. In that post I wrote about how Jake would be leaving home so I was practising then for the time when I would be home alone for good.
Well this is it and Jake has left for University. We took him and all his belongings (and there were a lot of them when piled into my sister-in-law Amanda's car!) all the way up north to Teesside University where he is happily settling in to his student hall.
Here is the outside of the halls of residence , not the most glamorous of buildings but Jake chose it as it has very large student rooms and good communal facilities and is very near campus.
Here he is – with top hat of course – moving into his room.He says he has space for a grand piano but don't think he will be able to afford that on a student budget! It looks a good room for parties though as it is twice as big as the space shown in this pic.
It doesn't seem two minutes since we dropping Ellie off at her halls of residence – you can see her at her first day at her halls in this post .
Hope Jake has a fab time, we are very proud of him
And of course now I get to start sorting out the new craft room, did a little bit last night but I have a lot of stuff to move – am hoping to be able to show you pics at the end of the week.
Still have not really decided on a decorating theme, was going to do a vintage/Cath Kidston look but most of my fabric is either Xams stuff or medieval so don't know what would look best. Maybe I should just go for a Santa's grotto theme and then I could have all my ornies out year round, that would be pretty ;-)
Am going to my new knitting group in the village tomorrow, Wool and W(h)ine, held at one of the local pubs (what a good idea) so am taking a simple pattern as don't think I will be able to concentrate on anything much.
I was out partying this weekend and met a couple of the knitting group who are very lovely. One of them is an ex re – enactor who has just set up an online fabric store which I will get the details of and post here! How exciting, I knew I was so right to move here.
I have had a wonderful week, on Monday I went to see the Mikron Theatre Company's latest production at one of our local pubs – a wonderfully funny play called 'Losing the Plot' about an allotment. The info for the company is at the link above – do go and see them if you get a chance, brilliant unique theatre.
Since I now have no one to look after or feed I thought I would do my bit for the local wildlife so have bought a lovely new bird feeding station for my front garden. I was ignored for the first 24 hours but then got some lovely visitors, starlings, crows, two finches and two robins. Was difficult to get good pics but this one is lovely.
And as for the pumpkin it is nearly time to buy one for my favourite soup – Delia Smith's Roasted Pumpkin Soup with Melting Cheese – yum yum!
A busy week ahead but hopefully will have some crafting time. Thanks for visiting.
I hope that you are all well and happy. I have some time off this week so am very much enjoying myself – have just done a bit of gardening and am now continuing with my hand quilting.
I had a lovely time visiting Ellie at Powis Castle this weekend. It was beautiful weather when I got there on Sunday so I took lots and lots of pics. I have made a slideshow of the castle and garden for you but will start off with some pics of Ellie in her National Trust uniform.
The title of this post comes from one of Ellie's daily tasks which is to take light readings to check that there is not too much sun coming into the castle which would damage the textiles.
I went round with her when she did this on Sunday and one of the things she has to do is to measure the light on the bearskin rug in one of the rooms. She has a chart on the clipboard in the above photo to record the readings and one of the columns actually says 'bear's forehead'.
Years ago when she was very young we went to Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire and as the castle had just been restored the custodian took us on a personal tour and let Ellie unlock the castle with a massive key.
Ellie has always remembered that but these days she has the big keys herself and she gets to lock the beautiful doors like these on the coach house.
She is living in a house in the grounds which overlooks the gardens – here she is on her doorstep and the view of her garden – and the croquet lawn!
The castle is amazing and full of the most beautiful things – we were not allowed to take photos of the interior as usual and it was too dark to take good pics anyway but you can go and look on Ellie's blog where she details all of the wonderful things she does and has lots more pics.
I am so very proud of her, it is a brilliant job and she is having a wonderful time. I went out for a meal with her colleagues and they are all very lovely and Welshpool is a really pretty little town to live in.
Here are a few of my fave close up pics from the garden – taken with my new camera which is working very well (until I break this one of course!) I am going to frame some of these for my new craft room.
And the beautiful gardens – some of the best I have ever seen. Well worth a visit if you are in the area.
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Take care and thanks for visiting.
I have decided that I really do like Spring best out of all of the seasons. I like all the others for different reasons but there is something about the start of warm sunny days after the cold of Winter that makes you very happy! I have had a very lovely weekend and I hope that you have too.
I have been very relaxed this weekend which was wonderful, I had a quiet week at work as I was only in the office for one day after getting back from China on Monday and as I have felt very tired and jet lagged I had not planned anything for this weekend beyond a bit of sorting in the house and garden.
As it has been very good weather I have spent a good few hours in the garden and we had our very first BBQ of the year this evening, in March – a minor miracle!
As you may remember we had our very last BBQ of the year last October the 1st and it was so lovely this afternoon we thought we would seize the moment. The clocks have gone back as well so we had another hour of daylight so I pottered round the garden a bit more.
I have had to do some major work as well as the general post Winter tidy up as the very high winds in Jan meant we lost quite a lot of the trellis. I had taken half of it down some months ago meaning to replace those panels later but the rest has gone so I took it all down this weekend. Sadly I have lost quite a bit of the lovely clematis and ivy but the good news is that my camellias are blooming for the first time in 5 years!
I think it looks just as nice without the trellis – pity my neighbour's cat Henry will have nowhere to climb and scare the birds now! I found a lot of pigeon feathers underneath the laurel bush so I think someone met a sticky end in his paws.
Also took some pics of my lovely Virbunum plant which looks so pretty at this time of year.
I have also been working on all the Chinese pics so that I can publish the page later on in the week, I took so many pics that I have spent a long time choosing which to use and resizing them.
I am set to have a nice relaxing week at work then I am teaching for a couple of days before we leave for our holiday in Italy! We are off to Lake Como the first week of April, lucky us.
Mum is arriving next weekend and Ellie arrives midweek – just in time for her 21st birthday! How did that happen, my little baby being 21? This is the first of the special birthdays this year as Jake is 18 in mid June, I am 50 at the end of June and Nana is 100 mid July.
I do hope you all have a lovely week ahead with lots of sunshine and nice things, take care and thanks as always for visiting.
Do you see the above picture my dear readers, that was taken in my garden yesterday Saturday October 1st and we were having a BBQ! In Yorkshire, in October!
It is an absolute miracle and I am stunned. We have had an enormous heatwave here in the UK – it has been so so warm so Jake and I decided to make the most of it and BBQ for tea. And afterwards I sat out watching the embers glow, drinking a little red wine with no coat on till 8pm. Oh if only Autumn could always be like this!
I hope you have also noticed the beautifully restored decking – isn't it nice the way it matches the chairs so well. It had got very scruffy so I found a very nice gardener man to come and pressure wash, sand a re-stain it for me so it is all looking lovely.
I have spent a few hours today tidying up (what would normally be the putting the garden to bed for the Winter tidy up but who nows it might be the start of the Spring growth season!) It is possible the world has flipped over and we are now having New Zealand's climate which would be fab (can we flip back before we are officially supposed to have Spring please?)
Jake and I had a very lovely visit yesterday to Stafford for the University Open Day there. We were very impressed, it is a pretty town with a park and canal and a very lovely campus. The course and lecturers were also very good and there was a great welcome from everyone we met. He has to fill in his choices form soon and then fingers crossed he will be offered some places!
I have had a ridiculously busy week again, we had another Marsden Jazz Festival meeting (things are hotting up as the festival is next weekend!), went out for a meal with work friends which was very nice and had the girls round for the evening. And there was work which was very busy but very nice – I am having a lovely time with my new group.
All this of course means very little craft time so apologies for only WIP pictures again. I have finished one of the Little Cotton Rabbits wristwarmers and cast on for the other one last night and am nearly finished with my latest Xmas ornie. I was stitching this on our train journey to and from Stafford which was a very pleasant way to spend a few hours.
This is a pattern from the Christmas 2011 issue of Cross Stitcher magazine, I have stopped buying cross stitch mags generally as I have a few (ahem!) patterns still to do but was very taken by the prospect of more ornies and they had some lovely Scandinavian style ones (and a free ornie kit which I have sent to Ellie).
I am stitching this on very fine count sparkly evenweave (think it is about 28 count) with only one strand of Silk Mill thread and all the backstitching and contrast rows are being done in a dark red sewing cotton it is that small-scale! I am very pleased with it, will change the bottom of the design I think and put another heart in and then make it up as a hanging ornie for the tree.
The images below from the Cross Stitcher web site show the original design made up as a picture and also some very cute little bird ornies which I will also make for my tree.
Well I hope that you all have a lovely week ahead – I am spending the whole of next weekend in Marsden for the Jazz Festival (yippee!!) where I will be running the box office. Hopefully we shall have some lovely weather so if you are in the area do come along, lots of wonderful music and a great time guaranteed!
Thanks very much for visiting.


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City officials say the man suspected of abducting 8-year-old Relisha Rudd posed as her doctor and took calls from her elementary school teacher to confirm she was sick.
Officials familiar with the investigation say Rudd's mother, grandmother and Kahlil Tatum, the man suspected of abducting the girl, were all working together in an effort to fool teachers and administrators at Payne Elementary School into believing the 8-year-old was not coming to school because she was sick.
"He basically assured the school the child had been ill and gave some detailed information around that," said Bebe Otero, the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services.
Tatum was the janitor in the homeless shelter where Rudd had been staying with her mother.
Administration officials not authorized to speak on the record said Rudd's grandmother and mother gave Tatum's phone number to the school claiming he was the girl's doctor.
Rudd and her family were last seen by a social worker on February 26 and the last time anyone saw the girl at school was on March 7.
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray said city agencies were very familiar with Rudd's family.
"I certainly did read a chronology where the DCPS folks were involved with the mother trying to find why the child hadn't been to school and they were told that the child was sick," said Mayor Gray.
Back at the shelter where Rudd had been living with her family, police recruits from the academy along with investigators with the FBI conducted another search and did some re-questioning.
"We've been back here probably a half a dozen times and we're going to keep coming back until we locate Relisha," said D.C. Police Commander Daniel Hickson. "We're going to continue to come back to see if we missed somebody else who might be able to tell us something."
Also at the mayor's news conference, Paul Quander, the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety, defended the way D.C. police have handled the Amber Alert and the search for Rudd.
"Once we established that there had been a crime committed, and once we were able to establish that Mr. Tatum was a person of interest in Prince George's County, then that gave us the predicate that we needed to move to the next level," said Quander. "So that's when we issued the Amber Alert."
But the initial Amber Alert contained no photographs of Tatum and the ones put out on the D.C. police Twitter account failed to include his name.
City officials also say when police initially talked to Rudd's mother at the shelter, they wanted to issue the Amber Alert a week ago on Wednesday. However, Rudd's mother resisted and did not want to give her permission. The Amber Alert was not put out until the next day.
We spoke to Rudd's mother on the phone and she said the city had already taken her other children away from her, but would not explain why.
A police report also says an investigator spoke with Rudd's aunt and she said she spoke with the 8-year-old twice on the phone last Wednesday.
On Wednesday, the FBI has added Tatum to their most wanted list.
The FBI released video to the public on Tuesday showing Tatum with Rudd walking down the hallway of a Northeast D.C. hotel on February 26.
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