A Fabulous week...a crazy cool phone app, Local radio, my books and lots of crochet fun

Life has turned a little crazy this week... 

with lots of new ideas for crochet, fun outings, shows, magazine interviews and local radio chats and I now find my books have been translated into German and Finnish too....I thought things came in 3's...more like 33

I've just got to tell you all about this new phone app...who would have thought it ME and a phone app!

PRISMA 

Is a real cool phone app, my new addiction is so much fun i cant tell you..

Pmacs looking cool

 A new crochet wrap in my 'easy' version of a lattice stitch, its called...

Summer Kisses

PRISMA, turns your photographs into works of art, great on people and crochet too

 motif below from Book 1, Granny Squares, given the PRISMA Love  

Thanks to Phil's lovely niece Tracey...you started some thing here, I'm now totally addicted to a phone app, not so long ago I hardly ever knew where my phone was, let alone using a phone app...now with my new iPhone, my sons old one he now has a super new i phone, everything is so easy and I am addicted to this fun app 

MY BOOKS IN GERMAN AND FINNISH 

I don't understand a word of the new books but they look wonderful 

Thanks GMC Publications and the German and Finnish publishers too, a fabulous job.

I was on the Local Radio Shropshire, they were asking for anyone who blogged and it had been a life change thing for them, didn't want to miss a opportunity so I called them and chatted for about 5 minutes with 

Jim Hawkins...thank you Jim.

When it was over the show asked me to do a more in depth piece on Jim's show on September the 5th....from 10am in the morning. A difficult decision, lol...I jumped at it, Thank You Jim Hawkins Show

You can listen to the 5 minutes from this week, if you want but only for a few more days and then its replaced with other things. HERE I'm on after Adele, about an 1 hour and 55minutes into the show.....How's that for famous company! lol

The Crochet Work keeps piling in and I've been a little overwhelmed with it all, so I have had to think hard about the direction I want to go in, while still honouring the commitments I have made already....so there are going to be changes, i hope you will enjoy them all, watch this space.

The New Carousel CAL with Stylecraft will be announced soon, I'm over the moon with the design so I hope you will all love it as much as i do..full of colour of course.

I NEED TO GET OUT MORE: SHROPSHIRE

I love all the crochet, but do find myself alone with a hook and a ball of wool for days on end.

 So I've decided maybe I need TO GET OUT MORE...so armed with my Bus pass and a timetable I'm hoping to visit one or two Shropshire towns/attractions this summer. It's a county full of history and interesting places to visit

 
WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO?

I live in Shrewsbury the county town of Shropshire and to be honest spoilt for choice without leaving the town itself......

But I could get any where in Shropshire, there and back in a day, using my buss pass or the car if it's more remote..

SHREWSBURYThe medieval county town of Shrewsbury has many regular attractions.  We have a Castle with the Shropshire Regimental Museum, a Museum/ Art Gallery, a Theatre, an Abby and the historic Market Square click the link to see all the historic pictures along side how it looks today the actual Old Market Hall is now a cinema and cafe and there are 2 regular markets held in the square, Made in Shropshire and The Farmers Market 

Then we have a fabulous 29 acre parkland Quarry Park, that hosts lots of festivals and shows. We've just been to the Food Festival in the Quarry, a really tasty show bringing together all the fantastic food related businesses in Shropshire. Another awesome show is The International Award Winning Flower show  a must for gardeners.

All year round the Quarry has the Dingle as its centre piece created by the famous gardner Percy thrower. The River severn runs along side the Quarry with regular boat trips on the Sabrina
Shropshire's county town is almost completely surrounded by the longest river in the UK the River Severn and we have a fabulous fun River festival in June.  And people travel many miles to try the 2nd highest tidal Severn Bore.

WOOLLY SHOPPING
A wonderful indoor Market Hall, with some very upmarket stalls too....I've just been told about a new wool shop  Ewe and Ply on the Gallery level.

Another couple of new wool shops i must check out are,  Coco Alpacas in Church Stretton that opened last year and another new shop in Whitchurch I haven't seen yet, Shropshire Knitting and Sewing Boutique 

Not exactly connected to Shropshire but I came across The Wool Boat  a travelling canal boat, wool shop and they seem to pass through Shropshire on their canal journeys.

We have our own Shropshire Sheep, and yarn. Alderton Farm has a flock of Shropshire Sheep and it's only 16 miles away, unfortunately as a small producer this Shropshire wool won't be available until the new year.


FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM SHROPSHIRE
A very Famous Poems have been written about Shropshire. The Shropshire Lad  link here to the Houseman Society 

 Famous people from Shropshire 

LOCAL RADIO: Radio Shropshire about half a mile from my home is an awesome source of local info, events, places to visit and generally keep you in touch with all that is happening in Shropshire. 

Land of Lost Content in Craven Arms, is just one of those places I heard about on Radio Shropshire that I will be visiting soon, sounds fascinating and full of memories

There you go..... just as I am writing this, Radio Shropshire tells me there is an Arriva App that will connect to my phone find out where I am and give me the required info about the buses i need...how brilliant is that?


And i'm sure I saw something about Shropshire not being promoted enough to tourists.
SHROPSHIRE STAR ARTICLE need to do something about this.


I could get to any part of Shropshire and back in a day and as I'm a total addict to crochet and wool, I'm sure it will include lots of the woolly stuff.



This Awesome County has lots to see and do....

Sitting in the sunshine and watching the 40th Birthday party on Saturday, in Shrewsbury Market Square, was a very traditional and entertaining day with the Shrewsbury Morris  a great team of dancers made me think about my reclusive life style?

I had a wonderful day out, an afternoon of free entertainment and a little shopping in my favourite dress shop, well you've just got to look see if there is anything new and exciting haven't you? 

SO I'M OFF TO EXPORE MY SHROPSHIRE, THE BIRTH PLACE OF INDUSTRY

Another site I think will be very useful SHREWSBURY WEATHER