......Wash Day Blues?......

Just lately with the skies a wonderful rich denim blue,
Sorbet bright sunshine and sometimes a gentle fragrant breeze,
life has felt good.Even if I have done a task so simple as
to hang out washing.

Although the weather seems to be on the change again
here in my part of the UK. Rain still holding off for now but the breeze
has changed more slightly to wind. Its good to remember the simple pleasure of
the sun. And hope that it returns again to brighten our ordinary days.



P x

.......A Little Bit different.......

Usually on this blog its all about home, family,
places we visit things we or I do make or even cook.
But last week we had a change of tempo, we danced to
a different beat for a day at least.

The girls school had decided to give out permission slips
for the children to be taken out of school for a family afternoon
in the main town area and just outside.

Yes Olympic fever had hit our little neck of the woods.
So as DBB was working from home and could juggle his time,
we scooted off to the town to see what the fuss was about.
It was hot and too be honest all I really saw was a lot of hot
sweaty necks! The celebrity torch carrier in our town was
Didier Drogbae a football player. As you can tell I was rather underwhelmed with
that as I know nothing about football.I think he once played for our town's football
team or something but I could be wrong! lol.

DBB being 6ft 4inchs and rather well built and having no qualms about
being pro-active if you like about getting up front took the pictures of the torch being
lit and of the acrobats. I took some of the balloons and of the statue artist. Much less
crowded those areas! lol.

Although it is not something I would of rushed to see,
big crowds not being my thing at ALL! And being right out in the beating
hot sun for over an hour it was in the end a nice thing to know that we
took our girls to it and for them to savour at least a little bit of the fuss
going on about the Olympics.

I Can't beleive how lovely the weather has been over the past week.
It has felt a little bit like being on holiday. I seemed to of been a bit busy last week
with one thing or another, hence no post or much commenting. Sorry about that,
hopefully I can do better this week!

P x

......Tiger,Tiger..........

After hearing an almighty roar, and a bit of a kerfuffle in our
back garden last Friday I thought it best to investigate.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that our
back garden had in fact turned into a jungle!
A wondering tiger thought he might as well move in.

Not on your Nelly thought I,
and on Sunday afternoon the lawn was all cut and tidy again!
The Tiger was quickly and gently shooed away.
He didn't mind really as he had no one to play with anyway.
Poor thing.

Here in the S/W we were very much blessed with beautiful weekend weather.
It spurred us on to really get things planted up and seeds sown.
I was also treated to a potting bench that I have been coveting for a very long time.
I really love it its nice and sturdy and makes potting things that bit easier.
It resides under our lean too and gives a prettier aspect for me when in the kitchen.

I also have my salad bar!
(okay shelf but bar has happier connotations as far as I am concerned)
up on the wall now.
DBB used the wood from a futon that we no longer use
(we have packed away the mattress for overnight stays) .
A bit of left over shed paint and there you go one salad bar!
To be honest I think we both had different views of how this was going to look.
I imagined little plant bags or little baskets jostling together somehow
looking rustic and pretty as well as practical.
DBB just thought of two grow bags dumped on the shelf.
His idea has -er- won out this time but I am not so sure for next year.
Trouble is, I think practical can work in a larger garden where the less
visually pleasing, can if not be hidden recedes a bit in the background.
When you have a smaller space to work with I think how it looks visually
is just as important as its practical use. Particularly as this bar is right in our
eating area.Still it might look nicer once the seeds start to grow.
(hopefully on both accounts).

I have planted a load of sweet peas, they worked really well last year -
so being greedy I wanted more and invested in a trellis planter this year.
I did have little too many though so put the rest in the fish tank,
will have to make a little tee pee for them to grow up I think.
I like sweet peas they look lovely and this year I have three different types growing.
So hopefully a really colourful display as well as a lovely perfume.
I will be honest I have a very experimental attitude to gardening
and figure that nature will take its course one way or another.
It worked last year but then this year with the weather being
rather wet and cold it might not.
We will see, I will either have a sad looking area or a floral haven!

The other scent sensation I will be planting is the night scented stock.

I had to look all over the place to find different seeds

that will give me different colours.

I found some today at our local hardware shop so will be sowing those soon,

we are putting some into the pretty pots that lived on the wall last year.

This year they are attached to the side of our gate at the side return,

hopefully on a summers night we should

have their heavenly scent wafting through!

Just have to find an opportunity now to get our veg beds in full swing,
we have some things growing in there but we are woefully behind compared to last year.
We are getting there slowly,
if only this weather would actually realise that it is now mid May!
Come on sunshine!

Our bunny rather enjoys a run about the garden though.
Watch out mate there was a tiger in here a few days ago!



P x