Eye spy with my little eye
Happy smiling faces in Leeds! It was hard to hold a camera that night, it was SO cold, but it didn’t stop this family from having fun in their bubble. I was on my way to the Algarve, and that put a smile on my face too.
It was an early start and my son, being only 20 minutes from the airport, had offered a bed for the night. It was only fair to stand him a decent meal in exchange, wasn’t it? There were some very tempting aromas in the Christmas market, but a cosy restaurant seemed a much better idea. But not before I played ‘I spy’ on some of the stalls. Here is one of my favourites.
I’m home for a couple of days and then I’m off to Nottingham, to pay my Christmas visit to my daughter. She promises me mulled wine on their market. To keep out the chill, you understand? But first I will be posting a Monday walk, somewhere warm. I hope you can join me.
Have a great weekend! Play a little Eye Spy with Michelle if you like, and certainly pop in on Cate with six words.
Have a fun time with your family. Wishing you a happy 2016
Thank you very much, Suzy 🙂 And to you too!
Seems like you’re having a pretty good weekend! ^_^
Could be much worse 🙂 Hope you are too?
Is it still as cold there?
Freezing the last couple of days but I think it’ll get better next week 🙂
I missed this post at the time. I saw that bubble and took a photo of it too!
They’re fun, aren’t they? 🙂 Don’t know why my six words keep going astray 😦
It was always too warm to feel like Christmas here. It just LOOKS like Christmas in your photos. Thanks for sharing and for playing 6WS!
Glad you enjoyed my bit of fun, Cate 🙂 Health and happiness to you in 2016!
what a great idea for family photos! Wish we had something like that here! Cheers!
They are a nice idea! I’ve seen a few of them now, Kathe. 🙂
very cool.
Merry Christmas, Jo!!! And try to stay warm. I keep putting my sweater on today, then taking it off, ad nauseam. 🙂
You must be in the UK, Jim? I’ll pop over to yours and check. Merry Christmas, darlin’ 🙂
Thanks! You too 🙂
Well that certainly got me in the holiday spirit! What a festive image! I want a family photo in a snow globe!
It’s a nice idea, isn’t it? Merry Christmas, Lisa! 🙂
Eye spy some really sweet angels, thanks for sharing. And please remember to share your Monday walks at Monday WRites
have a good Saturday
much love…
Hi Gillena 🙂 Thank you for the kind invitation. Some weeks it takes me all my time to get the walk written, never mind add links!
molto divertente la foto della bolla! spero che tu avrai un buon tempo da tua figlia e che troverai modo per farci avere altre foto splendide, cara
Sending hugs darlin! Having a lovely time with my daughter xx
The family in the bauble are awesome and I so love Christmas markets. We had a great time drinking Gluhwein at the Christmas markets in Innsbruck and Berlin, wish I was there now 🙂 Merry Christmas Jo!
Thanks a lot, Sam! I’m just back from Nottingham so I’ve got Christmas organised for my daughter. Now I have to think about everybody else 🙂 Hope you have a lovely one!
Hope your Christmas was a good one Jo! Ours was nice and quiet, so relaxing after a busy 2015.
christmas is in the air! lovely images, Jo! have a wonderful time in nottingham! 🙂
Thanks, sweetheart! I really did 🙂
Love the angels and the family. Enjoy time with your daughter – and mulled wine.
Thank you SO much for visiting this morning, Meg! (evening 🙂 ) I’m just about to publish the walk and I’ll be straight over to see you. It was going to be a last night visit but the day was full on and I didn’t make it 😦
A perfect choice Jo – LOVE the bubble!!!! Safe travels and enjoy your time with your kids.
Thanks, sweetheart 🙂
The WP snow is appropriate for this post, Jo. 🙂
I love Christmas markets. It’s so much fun strolling around and looking at all the crafts. We have a few here in NYC and you’ve just reminded me that I should make plans to go to one.
I agree, Jackie. 🙂 Thanks for reminding me- I’ll need to take it off for my walk cos it’ll look silly. 🙂
Hi sweetie, lovely to see you, I’m a bit behind because of my visitors!
We’ve got one of those here, £10 to have one photo in there, I might have done it if my babes weren’t tired and grumpy yesterday.I think the angels began in Dartington, near here, I’ve had one for years x:-)x
Sounds like another reason to come visiting, Gilly 🙂 I did enjoy your walk with the youngsters in Exeter.
Absolutely, I need something to look forward to, how else will I get through winter!
Are the little ones still with you?
Yep, until tomorrow lunchtime – I have the morning off and I’ll be miserable when they go 😦
😦 I know that feeling! Enjoy every second till then. I’m just finishing my walk then I’ll throw some stuff in a bag for going to Lisa’s tomorrow. 🙂
Daughters are fab, you have fun honey!
So new and inspiring !
And Christmasy! 🙂 🙂
That is such a cute bubble and such a lovely idea for a family photo. You spied well Jo! Love those little glass angels. They are so adorable! 😀
Enjoy your visit sweetie and drink a glass for me as well. 😀 ♥
I have the feeling I’ll be topsy turvy walking before too long, Sonel 🙂 Can’t beat a little Christmas spirit!
hahahahaha! Life is short, so enjoy every minute darling. You’re right, you can’t. ♥
It’s been mild here, Jo. Appreciate your Christmas-y photos. ALMOST makes me wish it were colder and snowy….almost. 🙂 Enjoy that mulled wine.
No- warmth suits me better, Geralyn 🙂 Really looking forward to seeing my daughter tomorrow.
Oh I love the Christmas markets in Europe with all their lovely traditions. How fun is the snow globe…it makes for wonderful photos. Have a nice visit with your daughter.
Thank you so much, Karen. 🙂 I’m so looking forward to seeing my daughter. I’ve just about got all my chores done so I can get away tomorrow.
Great to see you Jo! We have been having such a mild winter so far. I hate to say it for that shall surely bring on a blizzard. Have a lovely visit with your daughter!
Thanks, Sue 🙂 Wild and crazy weather over here! I have to carry heavy shopping bags so I don’t blow away 🙂 Though with Christmas coming that’s not a problem 🙂
I love the bubble photo, Jo. I’m curious, were they caroling? You do live the good life, my friend! ❤
I don’t think so, Jill- I think they’d just dressed up for the photo. But yours is a much more romantic idea 🙂
Just so beautiful! Have a fun time with your daughter, Jo. 🙂
I’m SO looking forward to it, Amy. Thank you! 🙂
🙂
It looks like a giant snow globe. Aren’t those angels lovely.
I love them, Carol. I’ve always had a soft spot for coloured glass. 🙂
Did you buy one?
No- my husband and son didn’t hang about long enough! But if they have them in Nottingham I probably will. 🙂
Stunning!
It was cold, but fun 🙂
The photos look awesome and it did look like a great time.
Thank you 🙂
Hey – where was this taken? I am sure I have seen that snowglobe somewhere recently… lovely family moment in the globe
In the Christmas market at Leeds, but I expect there are similar elsewhere. Glad you like it 🙂
Ah yes there is definitely one in Milton Keynes my wife just reminded me. Lovely use for the theme
Thank you 🙂
So gorgeous and Christmassy, Jo. Mulled wine sounds like just the job for cold weather. 🙂 Keep warm.
It doesn’t seem so cold now, Ad, but the winds are wreaking havoc! I’m not really in Christmas mode yet but I’m pretty sure I will be when I get to Lisa’s. 🙂
cool imagery.
Thanks very much, Benji 🙂
What a fun setting for a family photo.
They have something new every year, don’t they? I loved that they all looked so happy, Mlissabeth 🙂
The Christmas bauble/bubble is a lovely idea. 🙂 I think I might have been tempted by one or two of those angels.
Me too! If they have them in Nottingham, my name’s on a couple 🙂
There are a lot of decorations around this year that are very similar to each other, so it’s nice to see something different, isn’t it?
Yes 🙂
Have a wonderful time Jo – do love the bubble photograph!!
Thanks, Mary 🙂 I was so glad it turned out ok!
I love that glass bubble (bauble), what a wonderful Christmas photo that will make. As for the angels – so pretty, but I really hope those 800 and 300 have a decimal point before the zeros! Have a great time in Notts, I can almost smell the mulled wine…. mmmmm.
Nice idea, aren’t they? Until Andrew commented on how dear the markets are I hadn’t thought about price (just looking- as usual 🙂 ) but I then noticed the labels and don’t think £6 is too bad for a treat. Lisa might want one -and if she doesn’t I might 🙂 Thanks, hon. Trying to make some catch up time today. Ironing next, before it gets dark. I HATE ironing in artificial light! (just another of my idiosyncracies) 🙂
£6 is very good. I always buy my daughter a new tree decoration (she has all the old family ones already) and one of the angels would be lovely. I shall have to see what I can find locally 🙂
Ahh….lovely! Enjoy your various travels. Stay warm and safe please 🙂
Will do my very best! 🙂 How are you guys?
All good here thanks! Christmas in England which we’re happy about with my parents 🙂
Such pretty photos…love the first one, especially. So festive. Did I see you taking the picture??? Hope you had a nice trip…wish I could go there. I am such a displace Anglophile. Many visits but stuck here in VA.
Not guilty! 🙂 🙂 I was grateful the photographer stayed so still. We do have some lovely cities, but not very warm at the minute. Many thanks for your visit.
Well, that was a fun night, wasn’t it?
Not all sorrows
It surely was! Sorry for my late reply- you often end up in my Spam 😦
Continued safe travels, Jo. Thanks for bringing us along!
Thanks, Ron! Have I exhausted you yet? 🙂 🙂
The family in the bubble looks so happy! And I love those Christmas angels. How beautiful, especially that blue one! Have fun visiting your daughter! 🙂
Love the angels too, Cathy. Didn’t stop to look at the price! 🙂 I’ve set this afternoon aside for blog catching up (and ironing for light relief 😦 ) so I should make it to yours, finally.
Thanks for dropping by, Jo! 🙂 If I can get something posted today, I may try to link to your Monday walk! 🙂
You’re welcome, sweetheart 🙂 No worries about the walk. There are heaps on tomorrow because of my absence and I need to sit down and write my own! Perhaps I should just publish all the others? 🙂 🙂 I’ve been doing chores for Dad and trying to catch up so I can leave Michael provided for while I’m away. (you know he’s a helpless soul 🙂 )
Lovely, Jo. Enjoy that mulled wine.
It’s funny but mulled wine isn’t one of my favourites, Cynthia. For some reason I’m not keen on cinnamon and cloves. Lisa loves it though, so I’m sure I’ll have a hot chocolate with brandy or some such to keep her company. Thank you so much for spending time with me today. 🙂
Oh, of course the mulled wine is only for heating purposes! Have a great time with your daughter and I liked the fun winter photo from Leeds. My university city – although it has changed massively since then.
I’ll be more tempted by an alcoholic hot chocolate, Annika, but my daughter loves a mulled wine or two. I’m so looking forward to seeing her! Thank you 🙂
Traveling around during the festive season, Jo. What a great way to spend this time of the year, with loved ones and it sounds like your family are excited to see you. Stay safe, and I’m sure you’ll be taking a lot of photos in the next few weeks 🙂
I haven’t seen my daughter since early this year, Mabel, so I’m really looking forward to my visit. 🙂 And it makes coming back from the Algarve into the cold not seem so bad! Thank you 🙂
Gosh back already Jo ! I love that family snow globe and who can resist Angels 🙂
Have fun at the market .. and keep steady on your feet Jo .. that’s on account of the gale winds of course 😀
Tricky these winds, aren’t they, Poppy? 🙂 We were very lucky- some of the Algarve flights into Leeds Bradford had to be diverted to East Midlands because of the gales. I joked to my daughter that I might have arrived before she got the Christmas tree up, because EM is just down the road from her. 🙂 No- mine’s not going up till next weekend, before you ask…
Hope the Algarve was sunny. Looking fwd to your Monday walk to brighten a dull December day.
It was wonderfully sunny, Richard! Just one grey day, and my camera stayed in my pocket that day. 🙂
Welcome home (briefly)! See you on Monday, I have a walk ready for you.
Thanks, Anabel! 🙂 My coach leaves on Monday morning but I hope to be online a while, and Lisa has internet of course, so I can do a little early morning stuff while I’m away. She’s a night owl 🙂
Take plenty of money Jo, I was there last week and it is eye wateringly expensive!
I just ‘look’ with my camera, Andrew. It’s free 🙂
Have a good time. I love those glass angels.
Beautiful, aren’t they, Viv? Thanks, hon 🙂