Come away with the raggle taggle gypsy-o
Elisa at Autumn in Bruges has chosen a sloppy song this week! Pop across to see the video from Aladdin and maybe join in with the challenge! I’ve chosen the fur babies because they are off on an adventure, desperate to chase rabbits in the New Forest, a whole new world for them, with lots of scents driving them crazy.
Ailsa has highlighted that as we in the Northern hemisphere are entering autumn, those of you down south are enjoying spring. If you follow me you’ll know that I would rather be in constant summer. I’ve chosen to revisit Rosemoor to show you some of the pretty foliage to be found there.
Check some more entries at http://wheresmybackpack.com/category/weekly-travel-themes/
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is about choosing your favourite photo. She says
‘We all have our brilliant moments and feel like we have taken a photograph that would fit in perfectly into the Life or National Geographic Magazines. I want to see those. Your photographs can be straight out of the camera or edited in Photoshop or other software. I’m excited to see everyone’s photography.’
I know that my choice isn’t of particularly high standard, but it is probably my all time favourite. Every time I see it it takes me back to the wonderful city of Kuala Lumpur and I sit and dream of returning. 
It’s time for Sandra’s Thursday Windows once again. This is Cathedral Close in Exeter showing the 16th century Mols Coffee House and to the left is St Martins church, one of the oldest buildings in the city, consecrated a year before the Norman conquest. These windows and all the rest in the area have been around a long time!
To mark the 30th annual World Peace Day Ailsa has chosen White this week. I’ve chosen three peaceful white scenes to share with you.
The first is taken in Beer, a little fishing village in East Devon. Beer is on the Jurassic coast and it’s a place I visit regularly. It’s always mystified me because it has white cliffs, but as you can see in the distance, the cliffs to the east at Seaton are red, as are the next around to the west. 
Next, a pretty white thatched cottage also in Devon. 
Finally, a lovely white entrance to a temple in Bikaner, Rajasthan. The door is solid silver. 
Please go and visit Ailsa – it’s worth the trip for the white peacock!
http://wheresmybackpack.com/2012/09/20/travel-theme-white/
On of my favourite parts of Rosemoor is Lady Anne’s garden. She was the previous owner of Rosemoor, and in 1988 she donated her 8 acre garden and another 32 acres of land to the RHS. For this post I’m choosing some of Septembers loveliest flowers.
So, have you any idea which might be my favourite plant?
If you would like to know what any of the plants are, I remember most of them and I know a blogger who will know the ones I can’t recall!
This is what they have to say about the challenge this week over at The Daily Post .
Everyday Life. This challenge is all about people and the things they do every day: working, eating, drinking, chatting, dreaming, walking, exercising, or any of those things we do all the time without really thinking about it. Take a walk around your neighbourhood, or around the streets where you work or study, and take a look at the people you see.You might think that your neighbourhood isn’t very interesting, but imagine that you’re giving a guided tour to someone from the other side of the world—what’s normal for you might be extraordinary to them.
And this is my entry.
Ailsa has chosen texture this week. I like the different textures of and around this old sewing machine, wood that is decaying, metal that is rusting and stone that is crumbling. I also wonder what stories it could tell us, whose hand has turned the missing handle and how many garments it has helped to create. 
The photo was taken at Sultanhani Caravanserai on the road between Askaray and Konya, in Central Anatolia, Turkey.
Every September on the second Tuesday of the month perhaps the most famous of all the country fairs takes place at Widecombe, on Dartmoor. It began more than 150 years ago as a market but has grown to become a showcase for all the best of what the area has to offer. As well as ponies, cattle and sheep, there are events like terrier racing, bale tossing and tug of war. It is well known for the song Widecombe Fair,
Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me your grey mare,
All along, down along, out along lee
For I want to go to Widecombe fair
With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney
Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawk
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all.
And when shall I see again my grey mare?
All along, down along, out along lee.
By Friday soon, or Saturday noon,
With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney
Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawk
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all.
Then Friday came and Saturday noon
All along down along out along lee
But Tom Pearse’s old mare have not trotted home
With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney
Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawk
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all
So Tom Pearse he got up to the top of the hill
All along down along out along lee
And he seed his old mare down a’ making her will
With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney
Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawk
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all
So Tom Pearce’s old mare her took sick and died
All along down along out along lee
And Tom he sat down on a stone and he cried
With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney
Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawk
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all
But this isn’t the end of this shocking affair
All along down along out along lee
Nor though they be dead of the horrid career
With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney
Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawk
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all
When the wind whistles cold on the moor of a night
All along down along out along lee
Tom Pearse’s old mare doth appear ghastly white
With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney
Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawk
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all
And all the long night he heard skirling and groans
All along down along out along lee
From Tom Pearse’s old mare and a rattling of bones
With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney
Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawk
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all
You may know the tune? The church at Widecombe, St Pancras, is known as the cathedral of the moor and I found this lovely ‘Old Grey Mare’ model.
The fair will be this Tuesday coming, still time for you to make it!
Lucid Gypsy 