** Merry Christmas **

Hello there - Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy healthy New Year

 

Xxx Joy xxX

** Yarnbomb at Parkrun **

Hello there - Yesterday we had our Christmas special Medina IOW parkrun and the knit n natter ladies "yarnbombed" the cycle track that we run along (we didn't tell too many people) that we were doing it, so it ended up a complete surprise to many of the 241 runners that turned out to run.  Our run starts at 9 am every Saturday morning, but this week four of us knit n natter ladies and three of the regular set up men were there at 7.30 am and it was still dark!!!

 

 

Dave sorting out the finish

 

 

Here is Peter our regular photographer

 

 

The runners started to arrive, Santa's, elves, reindeers

Here is Doris - it was her 75th birthday and she comes along

to run every week and yesterday it was her 85th parkrun

Happy birthday Doris

 

Club buddies meeting up at the weekend waiting for the start

 

 

smile please!!

 

 

A few more arrive

 

 

Here is Simon starting the warm up

Simon did the actions and had the runners doing the actions

to the 12 days of Christmas for their warm up

It was brilliant and got everyone in the Christmas spirit

 

 

Partridges in pear trees - I believe!!!

 

 

And we're off - arrows pointing the way

 

 

What a lovely sight at 9 am on a Saturday morning

heading towards to the start of the cycle path

what a surprise the runners will get this week!!

 

 

Here we go

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 What a glorious morning for a run

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's Peter with his bag of baubles helping out

 

 

 

Here is young Holly's special bauble she made for our tree

 

 

a few of the cut off ends!

 

A festive marshal sitting on the bridge pointing and encouraging

the runners on their way

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you enjoyed our festive parkrun as much as we enjoyed

doing it and running it

 

 

As well as doing the Christmas crochet for our run, the ladies also crocheted 290 hearts of which we handed out 241 to the runners yesterday and 37 to the marshals - take a peek here

Thanks for popping by

 

Merry Christmas and a healthy Happy New Year

Take care and stay safe

 

Xx Joy Xx

 

PS

 

After the fun of the run - H and I set off to Southampton to watch the match

 Southampton v Tottenham Hotspur

 

 

We lost 2 - 0 so we won't talk about that anymore#

 

ttfn xx

** Christmas Tree festival **

Hello there - Last weekend was the Christmas Tree festival at Brighstone on the Isle of Wight, so some of our knit n natter ladies set off with their crochet baubles, stars and snowflakes to decorate our tree as part of the festival.  Our tree was to be in Mottistone church - the next village on to Brighstone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ta-dah - here is our lovely crocheted covered tree with

65 baubles, stars and snowflakes

 

 

12 year old Holly who came along to one of our sessions made these

3 beauties - they are fabulous and she even added a bow to one of them!!

 

 

We wandered around the church looking at the other trees

this one is decorated with cup cake cases

 

 

decorated with lego

 

 

Stanley family tree

 

 

The Nativity

 

 

I love church windows

 

 

A plaque on the wall for David Peter Seely

Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight 1986-1995

 

 

 

Lovely carvings

 

 

this little fella was just by the door

 

 

Off we went down the road to Brighstone for Coral to do her tree for

St George's Special School

 

 

 

There was a lace tree and these three exquisite ornaments were on there

 

We spotted this lovely handmade tapestry on the wall which particularly caught our eye

 

Because Barbara is the wife of our resident photographer at our Medina parkrun

each week and it was lovely to see that Barbara was involved with this lovely tapestry

 

 

One last look back as we leave

 

Thanks for popping by

 

Xx Joy Xx

 

PS

 

 

OOOOOOoooohhhh look what my son made me - I love my reindeer

 

We have collected our tree, baubles, stars and snowflakes and we have

a plan to do something with them this weekend!!

 

ttfn xx