Giant Lanterns at Edinburgh Zoo and Advents 6,7 & 8.

 Jams, before I forget were raspberry and redcurrant (runny but delicious), pear and cinnamon,(also very nice but a bit on the sweet side) and todays was salted butter caramel so the OH will be eating that one on his own because my views on salted caramel, are well known. Possibly not on the blog, but I shall confine myself to saying that I'm not a fan. 

Stickers

6  Sortof Oriental

7 Landscape? Travel? who knows? 

8 Fairy tales

Yarn 

It's really not apparent on the photos but they are getting lighter and brighter. I have decided on pattern to use them in but I will need a contrast. There was a complementary skein  but it's too dark for what I have in mind so I am havering between undyed or light charcoal, both with the silver sparkle. OH says undyed, I prefer the light charcoal, because grey is one of my favourite colours, so the jury is out on that one. 

On Friday evening we went up to the zoo in Edinburgh to see their giant lanterns, themed on the sea. It wasn't quite what I had expected, I was thinking something more like the light installation that we saw in Skansen a couple of years ago but this wasn't quite the same. That said, it was spectacular. Naturally I took a shed load of photographs; here are a few 

We really enjoyed it. It was dark and cold and the lanterns were beautiful and we were surrounded by lots of people all having a great pre-Christmas treat. The only thing that spoiled it was that we couldn't quite bring ourselves to pay £6 a pop for hot chocolate. It would have been welcome as it was definitely a -hot chocolate sort of experience but not at that price. 

The OH and I are going away tomorrow for  a lightning trip to North Yorkshire; we are importing Son no 2 to look after The Cat Cosimo. So there will be no blog posts until at least Thursday and possibly not until Friday depending on how tired I am. It's for a nice thing and we're looking forward to it. I note that had we still been living in Orkney we would have spent the last 3 days constantly checking the weather forecast and worrying that we wouldn't make it to North Yorkshire as the Northern Isles have been plagued with very high winds and, of necessity, ferry cancellations. I'm glad I don't have to suffer that sort of uncertainty any more.