April and May are incredibly busy months for me. I know this
every year and yet somehow I'm never prepared and it all just hits me like a
ton of bricks, and I just walk around in a daze from lack of sleep, feeling
like all I'm doing is playing catch up.
I have been teaching non-stop over those two months and any
spare moment was spent on designing and answering emails, but it is all that I
love doing so when the holiday came around I wasn't ready to go! Can you
believe it! Even though I desperately to needed to get away, I had so much work
to still finish I couldn't imagine leaving it, even only for a week! Totally
mad! But get away we did :)
And boy, am I glad we did. The holiday was everything I
could wish for and more. New Forest is our favourite place to be, we both feel
so at home there, it has everything that appeals to us, lots of forest,
wildlife, country charm and peace and quiet, it is a place we definitely see ourselves
retiring to.
We stayed in a quaint little village in Woodlands, each cottage
there was so idyllic, as if an artist come and painted all the thatched roofs
and climbing wisterias. Our cottage wasn't any different, it oozed country
charm with its old fireplaces and wooded beams. It a kind of place that as soon
as you enter you relax instantly and forget about everything.
Our days were spent walking, picnicking and just generally
having a fantastic time and i did work, but my work is knitting so that's ok,
especially when you find the most amazing spot to work in :)
Spooky forest
Not so spooky forest
Dave is a very keen amateur wildlife photographer and he took some amazing photos. I really love his work.
But the best place of all was the Petlake Alpaca Farm which
was situated just 5 min drive from our cottage. We were lucky enough to see
some babies alpacas that were born just 3 week earlier, they were very shy and
hiding behind their mums. There were also some ''toddlers'' born over Easter.
The farm has the most charming little shop with lots of
alpaca related stuff including YARN!!!!! It is super soft DK weigh yarn that
comes undyed, three very gorgeous natural colours, of course I had to buy all
three, and even our local birds got some alpaca fleece for their nests :)
The farm is really charming and they offer Alpaca walking tours and even a chance to adopt an Alpaca. The website is: www.petlakealpacas.co.uk please check them out and if you are ever in the area go for a visit, it's so worth it.
I even met a lady called Georgia who works in Costa in Lyndhurst that knits toys for charity and even was a nominee for a fundraiser champion. These are some of her toys proudly on display.
The holiday was absolutely wonderful and I have relaxed so much, unfortunately few days after coming back I had some bad news that I'm still recovering from. It a kinda news that changes everything and of course I don't know if the changes are for the better, time will tell, I suppose, but maybe it's time for a change and something had to happen for me to actually take the plunge and do what actually make me happy. Anyway, when I feel less upset I'll tell you about it.
Anna xx
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