Just a quick line to let you all know, I am now on Pinterest @amandawheeldon
See you there :) xx 

Gingerbread house appliqué

Just had the pleasure of testing a rather sweet appliqué for a talented designer over on ravelry
Look out for it it be on sale very soon! 

I have also been making a couple of squares.... One I started on holiday, and finished when I got home... It was a busy week...

And another just I do plan on acculumalating them and hopefully one day,assemble them into a blankie !

Isn't it a gorgeous square .... You can find this pattern over on ravelry x 

I never gave up designing just don't have a suitable PDF programme for this gadget of mine.

I know it's been quite a while since I blogged also, life has been hectic,busy,trying in places.

Nothing new there.

My owl square has been popular and is still very much active over on ravelry also,

You can find it here http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/its-a-hoot-2

With help from the ladies of sibol  we made a couple of blankies and donated them to sibol.

I did issue the pattern free of charge for those embarking on helping with the squares needed to make them. You can follow our journey on the various sibol pages/groups websites. 

Here was the second one we completed, hard to see the true beauty of it, but the background colour was a gorgeous sparkly pink fushia, echoed with purple tones as the border,

The woman from all over the world did a fantastic job with the square itself,

I just love receiving the squares as each one is unique to the individual making it,

Making it a unique blankie, so ladies if you're checking in, taking a peek, stumbled across this THANKYOU! 

Yesterday was my birthday, don't they sail round quickly these days..I held a dinner party for my nearest and dearest, and had a blast,I hope to share many more adventures with you very soon,

Until then thank you for popping by, much love Amanda x 

Happy camping

Another year has sailed around sooooo quickly!
Oh what fun... But oh soo wet
Trust us to go to the highest point in Cornwall, notorious for heavy rainfall :/
Good for testing & reviewing tents don't you think!
So where did we go...

Lanyon park four lanes RedRuth

A beautiful well laid out campsite, with a club room and heated swimming pool

Housed within a extended conservatory.

The pitches are separated by neat hedges, giving you that unique private separated pitch.

They are generous in size and extra tents can be added free of charge providing you can pitch on the same allotted pitch.. Totally awesome

And the tent...

We went with family and used their tent which is a Coleman's tunnel 6 man tent 

They purchased the extra extending canopy which comes in extremely handy when used as a sheltered cooking area.

 Now we have been sharing this tent for the last couple of years and in the same location so I guess

That puts us in an excellent position for reviewing this tent! 

Extremely spacious with room for standing, now we don't do the normal camping camping experience,

We you could say do glamping ( luxurious camping) with TV heating and all mod cons allowable within regulations.

The rooms consist of two doubles at the back and a double where you could if needed take away and use as an extended front porch area.. I have seen this in it's first year of use, and it's fabulous.

We fit 4 camp chairs in quite comfortably keeping in mind all the mod cons we had,

We used the front double bedroom (the bit you could remove) which is spread across the width of the tent. 

Allowing that extra foot room for storing your bags! Quite clever.

Our family used the two back doubles one for sleeping the other for bag storage etc 

(Only 4 of us went see) 

Onto the holiday itself... It rained!,

Heavy.... For almost the entire week haha 

There is one good thing about Cornwall, you can drive out and usually find a dry sunny area,

We've been doing this for years,

We find a good what we call base camp and explore the surrounding areas,

And there are some beautiful areas to explore all within driving distance of this site.

Lands end, Falmouth, Truro, Newquay, perranporth, etc etc 

Back to the tent, tents are usually designed with a certain amount of rainfall that they can withstand without leaking, and for a certain amount of seasons as they put it.

We have only used it for the summer once each year does  that count hehe 

Anyway I believe this was its 4th year of use good don't you think! We do 

unfortunately it did leak a little year... But the rain... Oh the rain... Was heavy and torrential 

Quite positively the heaviest week of rainfall for a while the locals said .... Trust us

Anyway that didn't dampen our holiday,

 it was just obvious it was probably ready for re proving as they call it, a lick of waterproof spray,

We re-pegged the storm guy ropes, mopped out the wet areas and happily avoided the same flooding for the rest of the week,

Leaving us with just minor leakage, the key is to not let anything touch the outer material...

With heavy wind sometimes it can't be avoided hence the minor leakage,

All in all considering it's age a blooming good tent! 

We did have a fabulous holiday even managed to get regrettably sunburnt on one day!

As you can see we had a little problem with our exhaust, (exhausts don't agree with us) lol

But what a fabulous memorable holiday! 

Testers needed

Hello and welcome back to Manda's challenges
I am looking for a few testers willing to test run a new pattern for me over on Ravelry
I hope i have improved my pattern writing skills and just need this confirming along with pics of finished objects,

Please consider thank you x Available 1st sept 

Olympic joy

Hellllllllooooooooooooooooooo,(waves)  and welcome back to manda's challenges :)
Just a general post today as it's been a wee while don't you think ~~~~der dum de dum de dum haha
Sooo what have i been up to ?? well let's see~
I participated in the Ravellenic Games whilst the Olympics was in full swing... oh yes i only managed to enter one event but it was very worthy hehe
Wrestling Wip's oooooh i hear the gasps :)
yes i chose to unearth a piece of work i should have got finished ages agoooooooooooo.
A hell of a lot of ooooh's on the go today haha adds to the suspense me thinks haha i am feeling mischievousness i guess it's seeping out in my writing haha
Pics you want a few pics ? let's do it :)

 oooh do you remember the Japanese flower shawl i started way back here takes you back a lil bot doesn't it.
You know i don't quite know why i didn't pursue it as it's gorgeous, other than i get bored easily oops
Bit of  joke in the family that crochet is the only hobby i've had so far that's lasted longer than a year!! it's true,
guess i must be enjoying stretching my capabilities and producing pretty loving things that i know somewhere will be cherished.
ooh remember that lacy waistcoat i made i still love it!! look i wore it a wedding !!

my step brother's wedding bless him well did i do it justice i hope so as i was called on for a sister brothers snap eek!
aww all fun :)
what else has been keeping me busy ooh well let's see naturally the olympic games being hosted in Great Britain was a real buzz and not living too far away from one of the venue's (sailing) meant that excitement was bound to be an all time high!! ooh yes Olympic fever had hit big time and not even the workplace let up haha

I am very fortunate that the big big boss of my workplace encourages me to go wild at special events and i didn't fail to deliver for the entire games haha a different layout each day from the ring's which caused a little stir amongst the customers who believed i was being naughty but was reassured by my bosses as i wasn't using the exact colours i was ok besides they were sponsoring a particular team ;)
so i also entranced them with a team GB theme a GB theme an Olympic medal theme etc i had fun!!!

Even more fun was had during a special congratulation's Team GB day at work and of course my highlight was having the very special privilege of attending one of the events down at Weymouth a wee drive away :)
the atmosphere was absolutely fantastic, i can't begin to explain the absolute joy every person at that event was happy and united and i was sooo proud, GB wasn't sailing the day we went but we thoughly enjoyed watching and soaking up the whole atmosphere from the countries that were participating that day, Bravo therefore to the Sailing Olympic Teams!!!
And so now trying to compose once more (unlikely the Paraolympics are just days away!! )
i thought i'd leave you with a floral pics :)

i bought a new camera so officially back enjoying my snapping away once more :)
Until next time my lovelies take good care of yourselves xx
ooh i'm on twitter now!! feel free to follow @mandawheeldon  or linky   

Pretty Lacy Waistcoat #2 :)

Hello and welcome back to Manda's Challenge's :)
Well i'm rather proud of myself peep's ~yes i am
following the giving away of the beautiful lacy waistcoat i knew i would'nt be happy
until i'd made one for myself.
So upon searching through my stash i came across a bag of white cotton blend yarn called Kon-Tiki
now this is now discontinued the best to my knowledge so there really was no room for short measures eek
i had 7 balls of 50g and given my guesstimate of 250g i believed i might just have enough........
(you guessed it, it's not the g of the ball but the yardage that truely counts whoops)
Never had i ever given any thought to the above quote,
Still believing with 7 balls i had plenty, i set about at record speed with my waistcoat :)
I was also reading a particular trilogy hot in the UK right now and just had to get back to it hehe ;) 
Day 1 i had reached and done the first couple of rows on the fan pattern! 
told you i was working at record speed (besides i'd made it once and it was lovely and fresh in my mind !)
Anyway without further ado i got back from work the following day and finished of to a level i was with given the yarn i had left and declared finished!!!!! 
Something was niggling me the fit was perfect! but the length was not quite what i wanted, i've put a few pounds on from an 8-10, to a 14-16 now so conscious self was kicking in slightly, i try to banish conscious thoughts as i know at a size 8-10 i looked ill and had done for several years so call it a battle with one's own mind, but i just wanted a tad longer you understand don't you :)
This morning on scouring through my stash box i came across some remnants of the white kon-tiki i had used on previous projects and was confident there was plenty to do just a couple more rows :) 
so i give you another tadahhh My lacy waistcoat :)

  
hubby took a few pics bless him it is hard trying to get a pic on your own lol and even harder when hubby's got the phone (i do miss my camera)
So there we have it finally my own finished garment!! yay!!!!!! 


Now i am really really pleased, and i do have a couple of buttons in the shape of rosebuds to adorn it with but ....... its very white and summery don't you think
Summer in the UK this year has so far been non existent  so now i'm looking for something in preparation for the autumn winter months haha 
(no i'm not joking or holding much hope for sunny days,)
so any suggestions are welcomed (remembering of course i'm new to this garment malarkey haha
and i like pretty not much of a challenge hey!! hehe 


moving swiftly on i just have to show you my new picture for the lounge :)

typically England don't you thing i love it it goes brilliantly with my union jack cushions and keep calm accessories :)

and hanging on the washing line today we have camping granny!! do you remember me making that!!
ooh happy memories such a joy to see it blowing in the breeze.

Ahhh until next time time my lovelies take good care of yourselves xxxxxx

Tadahhhh clothing!!

Can you believe it........ i can't!   welcome back my lovelies :)
For a while now i've been pondering on the thought of working a garment, an actual wearable piece of crochet.
O.k i'd made a poncho before and i was very proud of that indeed but it was always niggling at the back of my mind of one day making a cardigan.
 Family members would comment on my yarn saying how it would look nice as a cardi and   I would always respond with ooh no i can't make clothing sorry.


Well the weekend i decided that i would have a good try with maybe a  sleeveless version first hehe 
I scoured through the many patterns available on Ravelry and selected the most gorgeous lacy waistcoat! 
Garnstudio~Drops waistcoat
I loved it! now all i had to do was decipher the pattern haha
Not that easy when you've never followed a garment pattern before. i read it over and over and i thought i would never be able to work it out,
I went back to the projects pages that other people had completed on ravelry and practically read all the informative notes people had wrote.
I picked up the pattern once more and this time decided to just go for it !
Coloured pencil at hand i grabbed the tape measure did the necessary bust measurement and deciphered from the many numbers where i should be hi lighting, did the swatch gauge thing  enough times that i dropped from a 3.5mm recommended hook down to a 2.5mm.
Surely i had all the ammunition i needed haha
hook in hand, numbers hi-lighted i set off , i won't deny these instruction's to a complete beginner to clothing were a little confuddling!
but before long  i was winning here see :

i'll be the first to admit that reading over & over  became very much a necessity there was a part in the instruction's where i thought i was going out my mind trying to muster grrrr any way i did and it did work quite quickly considering hehe

this is where it said to random increases along your work never said where just add 32 sts evenly haha so this is what i come up i used yarn as st markers :) increased when i got to a piece and removed it moving onto the next :)
The pattern rows were very simple and easy to remember, i just had to remember to stop at a certain length and move up to treble crochet sts

Excuse the pj's haha but it was just a side angle pic hehe it turned out too big for me by a good 6 " so i took it into work for my sister in law to try and it was too small for her but fit my friend perfectly so she's having it :) which means i have to still do a garment for me hahahahahahahaha

Until next time my lovelies, take good care of yourselves xxxxx

just for fun a pic from the race  for life hehe you just got to guess which one is me hehe

big clue
bum bag hahaha enjoy xxxx

been a long time don't you think?

Thank you for all your kind words and positive vibes, believe me i have been touched by them.
I have come to finally realize that things do happen for a reason,
And what ever comes flying your way you have to deal with it, some can do this much better than others.
Sure I've had my fair share of downs quite a lot to be fair
 enough that if you didn't know me would find pretty unbelievable, but i'm here, not to dwell on the bad but to find closure and look forward to the challenging future!

I HAVE GIVEN UP SMOKING!!

oh yes thats a massive positive following a number of heart attacks in the family and my stepdad's quadruple heart bypass recently (i'd given up by then)   :)
but all pretty scary at the time.
So how long has it been urmmmm April 20th or there abouts twas  a saturday 10weeks or so?? hopeless with guesstimates,
and i feel good i don't allow smoking in the house anymore everyone has to go outside hehe even in the pouring rain :)
Which means that i can zoom through crochet projects! much quicker than when i was stopping for a crafty you know what, every other row!

Yes i have come to accept that it is much easier to switch off from normal day to day activities and pick up when things are not soo bad, i guess i'm a pro at the switching off thing, isolation seems to be  my best asset, an also be bad too, when all you have to argue with is yourself, when you are sat in a corner crying to yourself, when you feel totally alone, screaming to yourself  WHY ME!  
Good Lord if things happen for a reason to test your strength etc i consider myself well and truely being tested to the max.

So if i've been absent here and there soo sorry my lovelies i am pro at blocking out!
I have missed your goings on,
 i'm not going to promise to regularly update anymore as  i feel terrible knowing that i've worried people so if i go missing again just be assured i have difficult moments and that i'll come good at some point xx
So what have i had chance to do? well there was a charity pink day at work where i took a load of nic nak things to sell and raise money for cancer research that was fun heres a snippet here

just a small sample there was also bunting donuts more cupcakes etc but you get the gist :)
i also competed a baby blankie for my friend who has had her own medical problems with the pregnancy
she worried me something terrible too hugs my lovely  xx

baba due in six weeks :) xxxx
pics not great as my camera broke so got the best of what mobile phone has to offer, this was presented to her at a surprise baby shower :)

i also just finished a noahs ark mock copy for my nephews new boy :) i didn't have the pattern just used my imagination and had a go i will have to get the original pattern at some point as i had fun fun fun with it .

So that's me and my goings on i'm trying now to do a waistcoat! now that will be interesting as i've never challenged myself to garments eek

I apologize to anyone who has been let down by me, i can not change the past if only hey! but i can do my best to embrace the future xxxxx much love as always Amanda xx

in and out of hospital :(

hiya everyone just a quick note i've not been well :(
I've been rushed in and out of hospital up an down docs
and am beginning to lose a lot of faith in our medical system
as they can't seem to find whats wrong, i' on a process of elimination after
what they thought was appendicitus, ovarian cysts blah blah blah
i will ctch up with you all as soon as possible xxx

New Yarn New Afghan and a New Challenge hehe

Hello and welcome back to Manda's Challenges :)
A very warm welcome to all recent new follower's Thank you xxx
Today i want to share with you what i've been up to since finishing that lovely mahoosive friendship afghan :)
Can you remember me saying i was uber jealous of the American worsted weight yarn?
That the UK version Aran just didn't hold the same vibrant colourway's as our uber popular DK weight?
Well guess what arrived Yesterday!!

Hehe That's right a lovely massive box of American worsted weight yarn :)
On the Friday following my Birthday(payday) i decided that i would treat myself and set about finding a U.S site that would ship to England :) And i found one !! Red heart.com
I was super excited so many different fabulous colours bouncing of the screen i could happily have ticked one of every colour available hehe
But i settled on These 17 :)
What i chose was 10 colours of the red heart soft (now that is lovely and soft) and 7 of the red heart super saver ooh they're big 3 of them just under 200g  wow!! but a little on the scratchy side ooops I'm hoping they'll wash a little softer,edit~ thank you to everyone who has assured me this washes beautifully and soften's :)   but such joy opening the box and hunting through hehe
They were all in plastic sleeves but i had to caress them hehe and stand them up for the purpose of taking the pic haha
I still wished i had ordered more of some other varieties maybe but you know how it goes Money stops you in your tracks especially when you have tax and shipping added on awww :(
So What have i decided to do hehe
I spotted a gorgeous afghan on Ravelry by Pammy Sue called Good & Plenty.
It was just what i was looking for stripes different to the granny stripe yet super fast to work Perfect!!
My good Friend Kate over at The Garden Bell had worked it up ooh ages ago and it was now my turn to play  :)
Here's my progress so far ~

 It's going to be big!
I kept chaining until i was happy it would cover our double bed hehe

It's looking like summer berries! haha i think i may just have named it already hehe so we have blueberries and blackberries so far ooh time for some raspberries and strawberries hehe :)
I've had this week of work :) so i've been crocheting to my heart's content :)
I worked up some Challenge squares for Sibol and popped them in the post (they should arrive today hehe)

This one is for a special commemorative blankie  to Mark the 100th Sibol blankie :)

 This is a flower square designed by one of the Sibol Ladie's (Luna) for Sibol :)

 These are squares that a magazine (knit today) suggested readers to make and donate to maybe Sibol :)

And these were for fun because i love a flower square and Casey's flower she sent me inspired me to make a few for Sibol :)
Which bring's me onto the Challenge :)
I'm hoping i can get a few of my faithful friend's to join in here :)
Whilst Sue is busy over at Sibol HQ with assembling the challenge blankie's from this year and following the success of my friendship blankie she kindly asked if i'd like to set a challenge and assemble it for Sibol :)
Well of course i would i love's a challenge hehe
And the group has grown sooo much it would be my absolute pleasure :)

So here goe's The challenge i set hehe


As you can see Sibol squares are made to 6" that's 15cm x 15cm
25 of them are then assembled and the finished lapghan's are then  presented to Nursing home's to people that don't have many or any visitor's at all :(

Snowman themed :)

For the adventurous pictures of snowman :) snowball’s throw in few all white textured squares maybe the odd granny
let your imagination run wild :)

REQUIREMENTS: We need 25 6” squares to make a blankie with that in mind it would be ideal for 25 people to be willing to send in a one off snowman themed themed square to me!
YARN~ Acrylic please
Are you interested?
Wouldn’t it be nice to add an extra blankie that can then be shipped to Sibol HQ in time for the distribution :)

So far to date i have 18  17 16 open spaces so if you'd like to become a sibolette and help out with a very worthwhile Charity please do leave a comment  we'd love to have you on board and bring smiles to many more lonely eldery people this Christmas xxx
If you are a member of Ravelry you can follow the link directly here if not feel free to join it's free :)
All squares donated are pictured and finished afghan's also over at Flickr on the Site here and on Ravelry too, you've seen me have fun creating squares care to join me :) xxxxxx

Thank you for visiting until next time take good care of yourselves much love Amanda xxx

STOP PRESS hehe
our first square has arrived from Lallyloulou lookie isn't it a fabulous square to kickstart this Challenge :)

~~~Tadahh ~~~ :)

Hello and welcome back to Manda's challenge's :)

Yay!!!! pure and simple Yay!!  haha

Oh boy have i been waiting for this day for a long long time :)
My First ever completed ~ ends nowhere to be seen ~ large mahoosive Afghan for Me!!!! yay!!
And with a little help from my Friends :) i present to you my My haha Friendship Afghan :)
                                        Rainbow Kisses

Isn't it BeAutiFul :)


I can't help but feel happy happy every time i look at it and i have looked at it often hehe 
I've had it spread out on the floor more time's than not haha just staring at it looking at everyone's fabulous squares :) 

I've fell blissfully asleep on the sofa several times with it draped over me since Friday hehe :)
And worked on it quite happily completing the border (i hope I've made you all proud with my choice of bordering ) :)

The bordering a simple chain 3 sc :) it matched with the joining technique :)
I promised a colourful border hehe what better than a rainbow :)
The story behind it :) 
Way back in June 2010 i joined a granny square swap over on Ravelry. It meant exchanging 4 squares a month following a short description of favorite colours etc  mine was a love of rainbow colours and flowers hehe
Unfortunately in May of this year unknown to me at the time as i wasn't actively online The group closed :(
Due to parcels not being received etc I at the time was missing 3 swaps worth :(  so it was quite understandable as to why it had to come to a close .
August of this year i spread my received squares out and asked for help from my online friends to help me complete it :)
The response was absolutely fabulous!! It meant i could add an extra row onto the afghan :)
I played with all the squares as they arrived photographing them placing them into the design several times hehe I settled on a design of granny/pattern Flower it was perfect, the mix was spot on and no one realized it not even me until it came to playing with them on the floor :)
Worsted weight and Dk were used happily together i do love the American Worsted weight it comes in so many gorgeous colours compared to uk aran equivalent.
I simply can't thank you all enough for making this afghan a reality  xxx
Who'd have thought my first big afghan would be sooo special mwah xxxx

This is my 3 seater sofa  so you can see it's plenty big enough for me to snuggle up with :)

Wrapped up in Rainbow kisses from  my friends mwah xxxxx 


Thank you to all involved it's been a fantastic journey and i love it!!
And guess what i'm going to do it all again hehe with the Sibolette's (a sibolette is a person who has made charity squares for Sibol see the direct link pic above on the right ;) and is a member on Ravelry where the Sibol swap is taking place :)

Thank you until next time take good care of yourselves xxxxxx much love Amanda xxxxxx 

OoOoh so exciting! :)

Hello my lovelie's and welcome back to Manda's Challenges :)

Lookie!! :) click the pic for an enlarged view!!

Isn't it looking absolutely fabulous!!!
I'm sooooooo excited :) i have a grin as big as a cheshire Cat!! haha
Yesterday i had a fabulous packet waiting for me when i returned home :) lookie

The lovely Lucy over at Lucyinthesky sent me the last of the squares :)  with a little note saying better late than never :) Let me tell you Lucy that this was the most perfect timing ever as i have just broke up from work for a week :) so it's perfect for me to crack on with all wip's :) still grinning xxx

48 fabulous squares from all my friends from all over the world :) i'm loving it totally loving it!!
The last 3 rows have been added and now i must set about tiding up all those ends and add a most gorgeous colourful border and i can't wait hehe :)

My first ever Afghan tadahh for me is on the horizon how exciting !!
The progress pics :~

 More pincushion's were made and mailed out :)

And a couple more are being made too :)

Right i'm soo sorry but i can't hold my excitement and must dash to tidy those end's :) hehe

Still Grinning :) bye bye for now :) xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
E.t.a.
End's loving tidied now for the border :) xxxx 

More fabulous squares and a yearly day trip :)

Hello and welcome back to Manda's challenges :)
I have a very special treat for you today! hehe
I have had an exceptionally busy week at work and all because of one event that takes place each year for a few days...
The Great Dorset Steam Fair!
Being the nearest Supermarket to the event, people literally flood to get their goodies for their stay or for the day so i've been run of my feet trying my hardest to keep up with the demand haha
Bu first let me show you what arrived during the week i was soo excited :)
i can't tell you how happy i am to have such a fabulous response to help complete the friendship afghan that i've had in the pipe line for over a year!

Lookie at what arrived from Karen's Krafts ...

Karen wrote  beautiful note how she was concerned she hadn't been crocheting long, Karen let me tell you they are fabulous and you have nothing to worry about at all! with work like this my lovely you will produce some amazing work!!
And Secondly a gorgeous square by Caseyplusthree :)

Isn't it stunning! Thank you Casey i love it!
They will look fabulous alongside the others don't you agree :)
I did make a start on it last weekend and i thought i might be able to work on it again this weekend but the week has been so hectic i'm happy to chill today! and fill you all in hehe
My Birthday was Thursday and i was kept super busy at work! i did joke that i would put up some bunting hehe but with it being a fresh Deli i didn't of course but there is a brilliant position above my counter that it would have looked fabulous! awww to dream haha
My hubby bought me a mobile phone!! isn't he sweet and a blackberry too i have been spoilt :) mwah xxxx
Right back to the steam fair hehe
I am very lucky that his event takes place around my birthday each year so it has become tradition to go hehe
This year i hoped to show you as much of the sights as possible but it's soooooo huge it has not been possible :( you certainly need a couple of days to take it all in haha
First part of the view as you arrived ... this is only a possible 3rd !!!

I've blurred the unsuspecting car regs hehe

 A miniature stem fairground attraction

 mini steam engines

 Rare pic of me enjoying the atmosphere donned with the traditional hat hehe

more steam engines hubby took these :)

This fella was extremely brave whilst this monster truck circled him in the air!!

 Washday blues hehe from yonder years

more organs playing music through out the day

 The massive fairground

No i didn't go on any they're far too scary haha

 i love snapping the big wheel each year

 we sat in front of this beautiful organ for a bite to eat :)

The programme's of the night time attractions  on the big show stages all run/powered by massive steam engines

This is the show stage we decided to sit and watch amongst several that were available

 These guys were soo funny doing a beyonce interpretation

 And the grand finale with all involved

A very poor shot of one of the lines of steam engines showcasing their engines from all over the world! they really are magnificent !
Hope you enjoyed my trip with me...... until next time take care my lovelies xxxxxx