Hey guys, just to remind you of my new blog Hang It Up over on Wordpress!
I've recently been blogging about my holiday to Amsterdam with my friend Beth so check it out :)
The Wurst Women In Europe: Part 1
The Wurst Women In Europe: Part 2
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Saturday, 17 September 2016
A Quick Reminder
I've recently been blogging about my holiday to Amsterdam with my friend Beth so check it out :)
The Wurst Women In Europe: Part 1
The Wurst Women In Europe: Part 2
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
I'm Moving!
Guys! I've decided to move over to Wordpress as many of us have. Doesn't it just look so much cleaner? However, I couldn't be bothered/lack the technical ability to 'export' everything over so I'm just starting afresh. New blog, new name, new everything.
I'm going through a bit of a transition in my life anyway, me and Ben are no longer together and I'm now subsequently living alone and so this is the perfect time to start again.
My new blog is called Hang It Up seeing as that's what I seem to be doing with every aspect of my life at the moment, and my first post was about a skull I collected from the Peak District recently and am currently cleaning.
I've not started with any kind of introductory post, I've just seamlessly transitioned straight into it. Again, what I do best in life! So this will be my last post from Salt Deep and I hope to see you over on the new one :)
If you're sweet enough to follow me on here you should head on over and follow me over there. We can still be friends!
Although, I really don't get Wordpress yet so leave me a comment with your blog address in so I can follow you from there!
Bye blogger, it's been fun
Charlotte
:)
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Kilmuir Cemetery, Isle of Skye
Okay so I totally forgot about this post from the gang's holiday to the Isle of Skye back in March! Whoops. Never mind, it's being posted now!
So after a solid three days of climbing Munros, walking through valleys and finding skulls on the sides of mountains (oh yes!) - I spent the last day on my own on what became a tour of the Island's cemeteries.
The first two I saw on this day were a roadside cemetery and then St. Columba's Isle which you can read about here.
The last one was Kilmuir cemetery which I almost decided against as it was right on the coast at the very top of the Island. I read a bit about it online though and thought when am I next gonna be here? and so I went.
It was such a beautiful drive up there and on the way I stopped in the little seaside town of Portree for some lunch. A kinda weird coincidence also happened. In the car I was listening to Bob Dylan's album Time Out Of Mind and the last song is called Highlands. The weird thing is that he sings about doing everything I was doing. Being in Scotland obviously, about how he's travelling around and stops in a cafe and also mentions how it must be a holiday because there's no one around. It was bank holiday Monday when I was out too!
Haha anyway, the cemetery...
It's the resting place of Flora MacDonald who is famous for having helped Bonnie Prince Charlie leave the island and escape capture after the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
oxoxo
Thursday, 23 June 2016
The Creative Directory: Tinycup Needleworks
'Hand embroidery for the high lonesome'
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Saturday, 7 May 2016
Dark Floral
Monday, 2 May 2016
Life Lately
I seem to go long periods of time without buying clothes and then suddenly I'll get the bug for it and spend loads, on either a few pieces or one expensive one. This is a case of spending a lot on one blouse but for goodness sake it's a work of art! Look!
 I think I mentioned a while ago that I've taken a slight change of direction in terms of my job. I decided to move up and become a store supervisor. This means I've moved from the store I was at to a new one as it's best to train with people who don't know you. However someone at this store does know me, my old colleague and drummer Ben! We used to work at the same store a few years ago before he got moved on (they move you a lot). Woo work is fun again! Ps we don't actually wear baseball caps at work!! |
You may or may not have heard of London Road in Sheffield. If you haven't, gather round and let me tell you a tale... It's a magical place which consists of what must be one restaurant from every country in the world. Above all else though, it's home to about four different dessert cafes. DESSERT CAFES. I recently went to one in particular, La Creme, with Ellie and Rabia and just oh my God. I had Ferrero Roche waffles for Christ's sake!
Me and Beth playing muuusic! We recently discovered there's already a band called Marble Orchard so we're currently racking our brains for something new. No luck yet haha. In other news though, we will be performing at Leicester Town hall on June 18th in support of Refugee week. Come on down if you're in the area!
Our friend Sion randomly turned up at our house the other week with a plank of wood and some bricks and fashioned a little bench for us outside our front door. It's lovely and it gets so much sun, so much so that I got sunburned legs from sitting out. Damn.
This is a photo I stole from Ben's Instagram of him at work for no other reason than he's just so cute in his baker outfit!
When you're listening to Knocky and Knocky texts you. #1 fan yo!
We were informed by our mate Nikki that there was a sheep carcass out in the Peaks with a perfectly intact skull with massive horns so we went out on a bone collecting expedition last weekend. Unfortunately though, someone had got there before us :/ Nevermind there's bound to be more sooner or later, these sheep can't live forever!
Also, still swooning over beardy Ben...
oxoxo
Sunday, 24 April 2016
Ancient Burial Ground of St. Columba's Isle
So on the last day of our holiday in the Isle of Skye, we each went off and did whatever we wanted to get done before we went home. Nikki, Joe and Ben went off to climb another mountain and Jenny just had a chill out day at the house. I had been doing a bit of research of the island and decided to go off and do a bit of a tour of the cemeteries.
I found out about this curious, little known place called St. Columba's Isle which claimed to be an ancient burial ground where several clan chiefs had been buried. Very excited and determined to find it, I mapped out my route and set off. As I was driving along, I suddenly spotted this odd little cemetery just randomly placed by the side of the road. It wasn't exactly at the side of the road, it had a field at each side of it but it caught my eye nonetheless and I immediately pulled to the side to get a closer look, I was on a cemetery tour anyway! The pictures above show this nameless place. It was really lovely how it was placed there. The majority of the headstones were quite modern and if all those people were stood where their graves are, they'd have had a wonderful view of the rolling countryside.
After a few photos I continued on my journey to find the elusive St. Columba's Isle....
I found it. The strangest coincident happened when I got there too. I was crossing this rickety wooden bridge over the river to the little island where the graves are and had to stand to the side to let an old lady pass. She thanked me and passed by and then turned back. "Can I ask why you've come here?" I suppose I must have been a curious sight, a young stranger visiting such a specific burial ground. I told her about my interest in graveyards and cemeteries and how peaceful and evocative of the past they are. She smiled and proceeded to tell me how she herself is a Nicolson who is a descendent of all the dead buried here! Of all the hours of all the days I could have chosen to go, I manage to be there at the same time as the clan's family member!
It's not hard to believe it dates back to the twelfth century because of how randomly scattered the headstones and obelisks are. Some headstones were hardly even recognisable as being headstones they were so weathered.
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