A Day at the Pumkin Patch!

Hi chums!

The other week I went with my mum to check out this pumpkin patch which was quite near to where we live. I think especially this year Halloween has become such a big event and of course I'm always up for a celebration! 





We made our way to the farm and I had such high expectations because I had seen a few Youtubers go to pumpkin farms this year and they always look so autumnal and cute. Luckily I wasn't at all disappointed!




The farm had lots of different crates with different types of pumpkins in, ranging from your classic orange pumpkin to slightly green pumpkins and also white pumpkins which I hadn't seen before (I know, where have I been, right?!) I thought they were super cute, especially if you have a monochrome house (and I think we all know I'm talking about the Kardashians here...!)




They also varied hugely in size. Some were even small enough to hold and I thought that these were just adorable!





The one thing I'm never really sure about around Halloween is when you're meant to carve your pumpkin. Are you supposed to do in on the 31st or sooner...? If anyone knows I would love if you could please comment down below and let me know.







I really enjoyed going to the pumkin patch. It's such a fun thing to do and it's completely free so it's perfect! I've decided that I want to make this an annual trip now - and I have to go back again next year because I didn't get a white pumpkin this year!

So all that's left now is to carve my pumpkin!

Thank you so much for reading this post and I hope you have a very happy Halloween!

Love

Emma
xxx

Exploring the North: Fountains Abbey

Hi chums!

The other weekend we drove around 45 minutes outside of Leeds to go to Fountains Abbey which was really exciting!


According to Wikipedia it's one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monastries in England. It operated for 400 years up to 1539 when Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the monastries.





Fountains Abbey is located on a huge National Trust area so we spent some time wondering around the grounds which were really pretty (especially because the sun was out!)








The inside of the abbey had amazing architecture. The arches and pillars were amazing but it was quite spooky in my opinion!





The ruins were actually in pretty good shape considering they were ruins. I've been to lots of other ruins in Greece and Italy where there is hardly anything left to see (although bearing in mind those ruins were thousands of years old compared to these relatively modern ruins!)




And let's not lie to ourselves, of course I took a million and one pictures!



Thanks for checking out this post, I hope you liked it!

Love

Emma
xxx

Exploring the North: Ripon Cathedral

Hi chums!
This year I made a big move up North to Leeds where I've just started uni. Being from the South of England means that I've been to London quite often, I've been to Brighton, Devon and Bournmouth etc. So moving up north has given me so many more opportunities to explore places which I'm pretty pumped about!

So the other week we set off to Fountains Abbey (which I'm going to do another post on) but before we got there we stopped off in Ripon to see the cathedral.











The cathedral was so amazing and inside it was full of decorations for harvest because they had just had their harvest festival service. It was so cute and autumnal and I'm so glad we made this spontaneous stop off before we headed to Fountains Abbey!

Thanks for ready this post!

Love

Emma
xxx

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