Upstairs to bed....and WIN A PATCHWORK PACK!!

Bed in Summer

by Robert Louis Stevenson

In winter I get up at night

And dress by yellow candle-light.

In summer quite the other way,

I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see

The birds still hopping on the tree,

Or hear the grown-up people's feet

Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,

When all the sky is clear and blue,

And I should like so much to play,

To have to go to bed by day?

I have always loved this poem since the day that our teacher wrote it on the blackboard for us to copy into our handwriting books!

As a young child, I used to have a small bedroom with a triangular window sill, upon which I would sit and watch the goings ons of the street in the evenings.

Robert Louis Stevenson's poem always reminds me of those childhood days when I should've been in bed.

Nowadays, I'm always happy to go upstairs to bed, as just over a year ago we were lucky enough to have a loft conversion. It's definitely one of the best decisions we ever made !

And was well worth all the mess!

We had to knock down a shower room (which was already situated in the hall space) in order to give us the room for the stairs...

At this point, I wanted to run away for a few weeks!)

And it's really not a good time to invite friends for coffee !

But amazingly it soon all comes together...

As did the upstairs..

And now, the Caption Competition:

Here are our fantastic builders on their last day of working here:

So what are they saying, either to each other OR to us?

(Chris is on the left, Shaun on the right)

Just leave your answers on the comments page of this post ;-)

Winner will be chosen on Saturday 24th May and will receive a fab patchwork pack...'Roses' theme!!

Have fun! Sal x