tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27725320684037862652024-03-19T08:48:24.420+00:00Sal's SnippetsSalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.comBlogger1111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-1039696878470116792024-03-18T14:21:00.000+00:002024-03-18T14:21:27.191+00:00Spring really has sprung…<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-HykJkHuUERjtcFBcbtoI2v9Wfy-_GEf2xMrIxFW_gab6faNtgqASb0oVduPTITUsOxpK6idY0SlZSUKhBHKUUYRBJm2Gf4WtE66_r_mZcmOtCNfR2McwgszcZFYIXBBqf-Pdvg7C5GKowQco-uv8N8xLW9-K5GMJpyUb6dhvMMPDYE04LhnB_WzkPoYR/s2200/IMG_1225.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="1668" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-HykJkHuUERjtcFBcbtoI2v9Wfy-_GEf2xMrIxFW_gab6faNtgqASb0oVduPTITUsOxpK6idY0SlZSUKhBHKUUYRBJm2Gf4WtE66_r_mZcmOtCNfR2McwgszcZFYIXBBqf-Pdvg7C5GKowQco-uv8N8xLW9-K5GMJpyUb6dhvMMPDYE04LhnB_WzkPoYR/w486-h640/IMG_1225.jpeg" width="486" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It’s been a long old winter, as well as being exceedingly wet! But at last we have a dry day, warmer too!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And having planted my newly acquired dahlias, I took a break to look around the garden.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEims2NdzKLIBIBDxwlcyZAOLK40KN2kAUQcfXWRgv81WFaZMoiKMI80PfvjYKbb_sulOdX3NBr8RITKyjO6EEpBd-VOEmD3HIfVocuH7phyWa-dREH2djirRWoXHjqV1CLrGGWwm4anfBPrizBJ-qKrFHghuJ8pGHStJW84hMrkiC-_6yiHY5Kx5lhrJC0C/s1668/IMG_1224.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1421" data-original-width="1668" height="546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEims2NdzKLIBIBDxwlcyZAOLK40KN2kAUQcfXWRgv81WFaZMoiKMI80PfvjYKbb_sulOdX3NBr8RITKyjO6EEpBd-VOEmD3HIfVocuH7phyWa-dREH2djirRWoXHjqV1CLrGGWwm4anfBPrizBJ-qKrFHghuJ8pGHStJW84hMrkiC-_6yiHY5Kx5lhrJC0C/w640-h546/IMG_1224.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I had a shock when I ventured to the greenhouse and saw what greeted me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I planted these old sinks in the autumn and I’d forgotten that I’d put in some tulips! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lovely aren’t they?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpdfyEo32Zb02yAeljyawfVbOVNY7ogG9nIVlfx4DHeMUdvSSa0-MD3h8Omgbqc7i_DPg0usuFgp1ts2a6JS_-WZCqF1ZVPAgJm2XOUM3dhJ52wMrlK89cHB20JOa40wDjAf9WCShiF8vGILzR9jJlEFaYJxWApgYIrZceQ6aQMikebM2jktuzGIug836R/s1846/IMG_1223.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1846" data-original-width="1668" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpdfyEo32Zb02yAeljyawfVbOVNY7ogG9nIVlfx4DHeMUdvSSa0-MD3h8Omgbqc7i_DPg0usuFgp1ts2a6JS_-WZCqF1ZVPAgJm2XOUM3dhJ52wMrlK89cHB20JOa40wDjAf9WCShiF8vGILzR9jJlEFaYJxWApgYIrZceQ6aQMikebM2jktuzGIug836R/w578-h640/IMG_1223.jpeg" width="578" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-2297741915936506232024-02-26T15:18:00.001+00:002024-02-26T15:20:04.990+00:00Plans..etc!<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Oh heck….I’ve been such a bad blogger, just lately. I’ve been trying to perfect my crocheting skills..which I think are improving…I attempted the ripple stitch, which is quite easy...until you get carried away and forget to count! But I think I’ve ’cracked it’ now!</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW5bg1oS25Iquwi27ptjVtOD5ZSYdbUQiQMWmHigIQ0kCKm-iLfZhm33XnbJSeexFZu5fTIlu6ewY0sroWAB1AO6iC_ZWGdtANQKLzNTlf5ir9L8LA3FYYgpU5I_Q18f8FrCLwklfIhKORVyMrl9yrPkJgUtl-FeauQKqF7UTprAChR32jYRTjJi47cqfe/s3992/IMG_1115.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2317" data-original-width="3992" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW5bg1oS25Iquwi27ptjVtOD5ZSYdbUQiQMWmHigIQ0kCKm-iLfZhm33XnbJSeexFZu5fTIlu6ewY0sroWAB1AO6iC_ZWGdtANQKLzNTlf5ir9L8LA3FYYgpU5I_Q18f8FrCLwklfIhKORVyMrl9yrPkJgUtl-FeauQKqF7UTprAChR32jYRTjJi47cqfe/w640-h372/IMG_1115.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">And as well as this, I’ve been thinking about the garden and what to do with it this year. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">All that we’ve had, here in South Devon, weather wise, is rain, rain and more rain; talk about enough to drive one bonkers. February is usually when I start to get outside and make a start on tidying, pruning, planting etc and I’ve not managed to get outside as much as I’d have liked. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Having said that, I have planted my Foxgloves, ( two dozen+) grown from seed last year; hopefully, they will provide a lovely display in June. I just have a handful of smaller ones remaining, to plant. In the greenhouse, I have Comfrey in flower. I grew those from cuttings and they will go into my newly enlarged raised bed, also soonish, I say ‘soonish’ as although the bed is constructed, I need to order topsoil. Plus…I have been looking after a few of my son’s precious plants, which he healed in, temporarily, when he moved house, just before Christmas.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">So, with my raised bed in mind, I’ve been trying to plan what to plant and how to organise it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sweet Peas are a ‘MUST’ ! I’ve been collecting packets of seeds since last year….and introduced myself to them, earlier…</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihB5697g7jnUZ33rFkpuSqdXyFuLsCUhLUC6amG_Vvy7Rm4zHF7Fibt_uatGacTXD4Vi9IjYw31LR4_sQnxV2lhmeEz5xZj1faEo32nlCXhNQ3Yx46Qp8ba1cL68g6xUYP9mKer4rhoBoSThEEsgoD8PeCJFwFenB5PnPSXeC_VZQa5tsPqerfHw96LYSK/s4032/IMG_1114.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2286" data-original-width="4032" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihB5697g7jnUZ33rFkpuSqdXyFuLsCUhLUC6amG_Vvy7Rm4zHF7Fibt_uatGacTXD4Vi9IjYw31LR4_sQnxV2lhmeEz5xZj1faEo32nlCXhNQ3Yx46Qp8ba1cL68g6xUYP9mKer4rhoBoSThEEsgoD8PeCJFwFenB5PnPSXeC_VZQa5tsPqerfHw96LYSK/w640-h362/IMG_1114.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Varieties are: Early Mammoth, Prize Strain Mixed, Old Spice, Cupani, Floral Tribute, Top to Bottom, Spencer Mixed, Odorata ‘Sweet Dreams’ Mammoth Scarlet, Promise, Mammoth Rose pink, Winston Churchill.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I reckon that’s more than enough! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dahlias are my next choice…I have a few tubers stored away but I’ve just ordered 7 new tubers…</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXn35jCl4dBiUKlkTwJ9XgEDqb5Gnpl2fmpJmucWM7HJvcNge-ZJcBu2w4jafwHklbKO_In1EbubAcXhp8mCM1nrwVqmWcF7D0BC2Z88oRZrXoVrN_TjyzeuWwFuldUef2Kww1NGql8d0ZoY4aeuVUlfmqwMrQOfDfaC7zn5E5xyJen-4_3rbx1bmcgHhZ/s1433/IMG_1113.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1433" data-original-width="1160" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXn35jCl4dBiUKlkTwJ9XgEDqb5Gnpl2fmpJmucWM7HJvcNge-ZJcBu2w4jafwHklbKO_In1EbubAcXhp8mCM1nrwVqmWcF7D0BC2Z88oRZrXoVrN_TjyzeuWwFuldUef2Kww1NGql8d0ZoY4aeuVUlfmqwMrQOfDfaC7zn5E5xyJen-4_3rbx1bmcgHhZ/w324-h400/IMG_1113.jpeg" width="324" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Caramel Antique</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt2nr4896razIm_2EaHYcSbN8ofvrlXpWu1RSLJPN23bG5FzK28EDdvdU8sHC41qPyDtrO110qdddMslGRn7plBZEs68NasBogkYXGbx2HOqVfVKgWMAUO_KnDj7GzkQE1F8jQbyAEbeh1S_Ex1rAHdAxRWZdX4_Di9j7NKrJRQ-FR7i1eQqs2izSjwpoF/s1325/IMG_1109.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1325" data-original-width="1062" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt2nr4896razIm_2EaHYcSbN8ofvrlXpWu1RSLJPN23bG5FzK28EDdvdU8sHC41qPyDtrO110qdddMslGRn7plBZEs68NasBogkYXGbx2HOqVfVKgWMAUO_KnDj7GzkQE1F8jQbyAEbeh1S_Ex1rAHdAxRWZdX4_Di9j7NKrJRQ-FR7i1eQqs2izSjwpoF/w320-h400/IMG_1109.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bellini</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1435" data-original-width="1143" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyMgqFX6z5wnDFr8Av54GX5OKXiH_S7PiJVYmY1Ps9Ig0FDwd3olaJy_SyZGwTMUeIPTyE_9HRRWBQf_oP61tilNTj2c2qk0pCNfYQPJ_oBQIkNe6wsSDLqEYjYDF0jW5cK3jaCMaZEtI_6Ym-tcly8vJ4bobdmMeIXPlLWEjFthNIcbhaZM6hXV0Ec6Jj/w319-h400/IMG_1112.jpeg" width="319" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Peaches and Cream</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I particularly like the look of ‘Caramel Antique’, a new variety. So watch this space.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">So what else to grow in my raised bed? I think, bearing in mind that I won’t have much room remaining, probably some patches of wild flowers as I was really successful with these last year. I don’t have the room for much veg or salad bits but could probably squeeze in some lettuce along the edge. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">It will certainly be good to get back to some gardening and let’s face it, getting outside does one the world of good! 😁</span></p><p><br /></p>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-7611615803171074352024-02-01T09:25:00.006+00:002024-02-01T09:35:27.903+00:00The Glory of the Garden…Rudyard Kipling.<p> <span style="font-size: x-large;">The Glory of the Garden</span></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span roman="" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;" times="">OUR England is a garden that is full of stately views,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span roman="" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;" times="">Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">With statues on the terraces and peacocks strutting by;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">But the Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">For where the old thick laurels grow, along the thin red wall,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">You'll find the tool- and potting-sheds which are the heart of all</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">The cold-frames and the hot-houses, the dung-pits and the tanks,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">The rollers, carts, and drain-pipes, with the barrows and the planks.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs35G202ibJm-GA5hPWi4_Ct7tIGAOkuVL8oHrsxdM2w9TGzXUasHtu64uNByMRh-VO26g-QEm0aYiSq7NeSstq3t3iis3BFZFEzs_32qcR6lIzqiY6kPmndWVtlM4d8bHjzRkp9r5rkcoFLW-PZUG2CEYiuriKKWEzrrJbNtRGCGTj45pUf9bV8zd2F50/s4032/IMG_0927.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs35G202ibJm-GA5hPWi4_Ct7tIGAOkuVL8oHrsxdM2w9TGzXUasHtu64uNByMRh-VO26g-QEm0aYiSq7NeSstq3t3iis3BFZFEzs_32qcR6lIzqiY6kPmndWVtlM4d8bHjzRkp9r5rkcoFLW-PZUG2CEYiuriKKWEzrrJbNtRGCGTj45pUf9bV8zd2F50/w480-h640/IMG_0927.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">And there you'll see the gardeners, the men and 'prentice boys</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Told off to do as they are bid and do it without noise ;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">For, except when seeds are planted and we shout to scare the birds,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">The Glory of the Garden it abideth not in words.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows ;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">But they can roll and trim the lawns and sift the sand and loam,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">For the Glory of the Garden occupieth all who come.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAU-6DbPahloxCM72daVH8Y3ldFXZCNJSnAlJROfYECLWXrwBsDb5Kyp4C3ToIzJ8MLM5hihogSbJSQtVfLR-66mMn-ZXBEjOw-YmF7TBxTyMxmeIlNzANXupeAjsL0Ger0iz-jV4Uzkh-8Lyl0TlYO8X5r5hep-QwhICWjukCkT4ee6XeOlRAlkBIudVO/s4032/IMG_0923.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAU-6DbPahloxCM72daVH8Y3ldFXZCNJSnAlJROfYECLWXrwBsDb5Kyp4C3ToIzJ8MLM5hihogSbJSQtVfLR-66mMn-ZXBEjOw-YmF7TBxTyMxmeIlNzANXupeAjsL0Ger0iz-jV4Uzkh-8Lyl0TlYO8X5r5hep-QwhICWjukCkT4ee6XeOlRAlkBIudVO/w640-h480/IMG_0923.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">By singing:-" Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">While better men than we go out and start their working lives</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">At grubbing weeds from gravel-paths with broken dinner-knives.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">There's not a pair of legs so thin, there's not a head so thick,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">There's not a hand so weak and white, nor yet a heart so sick</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">But it can find some needful job that's crying to be done,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">For the Glory of the Garden glorifieth every one.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikL499HRavydipMVOlQ3jBRNvMeRSqoACffcPHQEObosUX5hMp_dtZKrvzCvdv9FanHwEfam4bTCAaz4hAJBvM8zpqXteaDh1SAGBLLi_NcBcS1_hnw5Ak5_2XKl8a7hOAA25EWTnMuUYGJ-R081TTl1qqrMppcWCOy3MLrLXuJnclunFQHfbPKIHaGV9Q/s1576/IMG_0924.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1576" data-original-width="1227" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikL499HRavydipMVOlQ3jBRNvMeRSqoACffcPHQEObosUX5hMp_dtZKrvzCvdv9FanHwEfam4bTCAaz4hAJBvM8zpqXteaDh1SAGBLLi_NcBcS1_hnw5Ak5_2XKl8a7hOAA25EWTnMuUYGJ-R081TTl1qqrMppcWCOy3MLrLXuJnclunFQHfbPKIHaGV9Q/w498-h640/IMG_0924.jpeg" width="498" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Then seek your job with thankfulness and work till further orders,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">If it's only netting strawberries or killing slugs on borders;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">You will find yourself a partner In the Glory of the Garden.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG7HV86vwcHyKEc8siTR9HjifxQKoITr5YWdfGvlyG3W5XFlppxgnF3GZsVlfXmCp5-o2GRV7F55h14ZQPYeV2WalvxeWNKs3c2O0FUmbqsmrL1mhr8cbDjhApc_VqSM7Vd1_rO7VhD17xtbvfNBtpBvhkSh-vP10dwvrB7oB7J99GDbZz7F1VPgEXSBJW/s3558/IMG_0921.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3558" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG7HV86vwcHyKEc8siTR9HjifxQKoITr5YWdfGvlyG3W5XFlppxgnF3GZsVlfXmCp5-o2GRV7F55h14ZQPYeV2WalvxeWNKs3c2O0FUmbqsmrL1mhr8cbDjhApc_VqSM7Vd1_rO7VhD17xtbvfNBtpBvhkSh-vP10dwvrB7oB7J99GDbZz7F1VPgEXSBJW/w544-h640/IMG_0921.jpeg" width="544" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span roman="" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large;" times=""><i>And the Glory of the Garden it shall never pass away ! </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span roman="" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large;" times=""><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span roman="" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large;" times=""><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span roman="" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large;" times=""><i>Rudyard Kipling</i></span></div><div style="color: #000066; text-align: center;"><span roman="" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large;" times=""><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="color: #000066; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span roman="" style="font-family: Times New Roman;" times=""><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #000066; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #000066; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Uki3E20-yi6vmj3s8tpYs3zB4lS_CKmWDVfZItLkVyFaeZ5XtotVgMFGgJLh0_SF411WyN4pQz1VRKJtjvGvvFGfEnJSfMMdOIEMCARLufGO2pYq4gnreCO3aO0PnTR5QWCtQgn1qT1ygXlIPhFAdQni0M2hdyjFiJ5Y2YJeB_wHwxL22FbiX9VrIndL/s4032/IMG_0925.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Uki3E20-yi6vmj3s8tpYs3zB4lS_CKmWDVfZItLkVyFaeZ5XtotVgMFGgJLh0_SF411WyN4pQz1VRKJtjvGvvFGfEnJSfMMdOIEMCARLufGO2pYq4gnreCO3aO0PnTR5QWCtQgn1qT1ygXlIPhFAdQni0M2hdyjFiJ5Y2YJeB_wHwxL22FbiX9VrIndL/w480-h640/IMG_0925.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="color: #000066; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><span roman="" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large;" times=""><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">This is one of my favourite poems in which Rudyard Kipling describes England through an extended metaphor of a well loved garden!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #000066; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #000066; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiioGJWJLXtAoziP3oUbhagfrhDXwnwFn1HINx8RTz9OYsgvnMw5LZifHf2K6qc4Ilb3SlP4JUXSUP-R8bsYQQVX0_-F9BA_2UQs1ZNujzUD4UfnGtevuRMppSZheq4Q8Vjf1nu5NYHgrAK4KQo9vKzWu4IfNFw2_NdlJHQk18CI9Yi754sSSOlqFy65U9/s1906/IMG_0922.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1906" data-original-width="1652" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiioGJWJLXtAoziP3oUbhagfrhDXwnwFn1HINx8RTz9OYsgvnMw5LZifHf2K6qc4Ilb3SlP4JUXSUP-R8bsYQQVX0_-F9BA_2UQs1ZNujzUD4UfnGtevuRMppSZheq4Q8Vjf1nu5NYHgrAK4KQo9vKzWu4IfNFw2_NdlJHQk18CI9Yi754sSSOlqFy65U9/w346-h400/IMG_0922.jpeg" width="346" /></a></div><br /><div style="color: #000066; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">The poem begins with the writer describing England as a garden in all its glory, with “stately views”. Although there are beautiful shrubs and peacocks, there are also tool sheds and other similar features. And he tells how the gardeners all have different jobs; some might look after growing the plants, others move soil and sand etc. They are hard working people, all doing their best to make this country good. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">And then Kipling tells us that we need to make sure that we are doing all we can for our country…that it might be hard work but eventually our hands will grow strong and our backs will be painless. And then we will be brought into the glory of the garden…and he hopes that the glory of the garden will last forever!</span></p><i style="color: #000066; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #000066; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQOoE71hEmnSYADnvtch7gnk6YQ_yljfKnEwOFo_4ewbhyphenhypheneFFsozvMeP6-4yzPHPnJoXsLYuzPh7Lv77meZ0YwymRlp9zTwcXqZr0V8Ygk7_e-it0KzZkgNkSvEVmmsCdKpwhTU82pIrdT2tAmHotZN7pjqMCPgoa4PY-WPb2VkphUeAZAGnONzjEjbc5f/s1668/IMG_0559.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="1668" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQOoE71hEmnSYADnvtch7gnk6YQ_yljfKnEwOFo_4ewbhyphenhypheneFFsozvMeP6-4yzPHPnJoXsLYuzPh7Lv77meZ0YwymRlp9zTwcXqZr0V8Ygk7_e-it0KzZkgNkSvEVmmsCdKpwhTU82pIrdT2tAmHotZN7pjqMCPgoa4PY-WPb2VkphUeAZAGnONzjEjbc5f/w640-h378/IMG_0559.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><span roman="" style="font-family: Times New Roman;" times=""><i><br /></i></span></div>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-39202334856458202302024-01-19T14:00:00.006+00:002024-01-19T14:01:36.955+00:00It’s a start! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz81Dag3UcpaGNsuqOWAiQ1JoC638ycc9p3dGBqcfiacYBrpuq691O2UHGiT_S6SUoCnvtR-93lR5PYOBfZ_LQoYUzEuORKo9w7PrUuy163WB2VCLaa4XQbEuGZV3K4FWCfmf2cQJehWwbw1rUpdY46NlQhVSTVlhDtGvYCn9H8ZPj3Z5tzA72urO7OC0d/s1605/IMG_0661.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1441" data-original-width="1605" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz81Dag3UcpaGNsuqOWAiQ1JoC638ycc9p3dGBqcfiacYBrpuq691O2UHGiT_S6SUoCnvtR-93lR5PYOBfZ_LQoYUzEuORKo9w7PrUuy163WB2VCLaa4XQbEuGZV3K4FWCfmf2cQJehWwbw1rUpdY46NlQhVSTVlhDtGvYCn9H8ZPj3Z5tzA72urO7OC0d/w400-h359/IMG_0661.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Please don’t look too closely! This is my first attempt at crochet, in a very long time! I’m not very good at it </span><span>right now but I’ve really enjoyed picking up the hook and giving it a go!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9Vnj1YfsnhuIpADwYj7fVAnSxcI6KjVsGdy7tJRdrhO0UerMaOeUw9SWIFlxkMfdEU7jbBJoFuPkyJ6-fPSpfVJzdsfTDI1MsdrvcrFKjYIoSanhLyHFoSM_92n0GbX7l9xeGHbnca9DC9mCkiOeMKCFLf5mQASgLxBw_5zp5QDUddRZFT0vr6jB3kGw/s3670/IMG_0589.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3670" data-original-width="3019" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9Vnj1YfsnhuIpADwYj7fVAnSxcI6KjVsGdy7tJRdrhO0UerMaOeUw9SWIFlxkMfdEU7jbBJoFuPkyJ6-fPSpfVJzdsfTDI1MsdrvcrFKjYIoSanhLyHFoSM_92n0GbX7l9xeGHbnca9DC9mCkiOeMKCFLf5mQASgLxBw_5zp5QDUddRZFT0vr6jB3kGw/w526-h640/IMG_0589.jpeg" width="526" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>So, at the weekend, I started off with this simple throw. </span><span>And it all went quite well!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgthFX0O8RVk12GJKU90Qhuh_xX4_u5LQ5FexhIpU7PvlGQOct9u18EL2kYYpRDx_P0s_RGNdRTqraXqgIRWvk7WH4xKfsjoVad_09r4Idq9ah78DJ41AT6nXvG1kyrnU3XS1iAKexvGp7r5hPJ-F5dKDfKnl-aX4Bopr0lkmZl8l51oBn7CJ8pXp2ocJyV/s4032/IMG_0590.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgthFX0O8RVk12GJKU90Qhuh_xX4_u5LQ5FexhIpU7PvlGQOct9u18EL2kYYpRDx_P0s_RGNdRTqraXqgIRWvk7WH4xKfsjoVad_09r4Idq9ah78DJ41AT6nXvG1kyrnU3XS1iAKexvGp7r5hPJ-F5dKDfKnl-aX4Bopr0lkmZl8l51oBn7CJ8pXp2ocJyV/w640-h480/IMG_0590.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I then tried to make a small mat but I got totally confused with the instructions and thus I made them up myself! Needs improvement!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEharfeJ56KOOb0nxAJAxNkqcIncQ-hjHUSA_gR83NeGfUHQ10wcLV9cyjfg9SXB2XjTSDr04tfximrr5IgyD9SyRLcA1P551lXdctcjOBeUgMz5yHziZbe2Efv3E7sghcQ2x8u-01vcT7o5JAftHIxBlJYazYA9ZhUdW3JRx7OF2HQ0qUlcP_aF7L8c2whr/s2462/IMG_0658.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2394" data-original-width="2462" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEharfeJ56KOOb0nxAJAxNkqcIncQ-hjHUSA_gR83NeGfUHQ10wcLV9cyjfg9SXB2XjTSDr04tfximrr5IgyD9SyRLcA1P551lXdctcjOBeUgMz5yHziZbe2Efv3E7sghcQ2x8u-01vcT7o5JAftHIxBlJYazYA9ZhUdW3JRx7OF2HQ0qUlcP_aF7L8c2whr/w400-h389/IMG_0658.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Earlier, I looked back through my blog and one of the last things I crocheted, before this week, was a set of </span><span>these Christmas mats, in 2009 :</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0tbKfSYZnb9mpU6FnPPA7YPgwPDI2wVO0yw2rYY2PXLI_wmdxCeR2UcYPLmwqolS5zHiwY-cP8WDPRHV5kHinBDZ3kORfwqDZ7XLREpdAT57X5g-_NkWdmDOsYKFj4hX-iKn70DKQu78n3IR5fw_Ew9dwq0kbIDvHUtYupkTZRCf67upJxeSGTVnAZ3Md/s400/IMG_0663.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="400" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0tbKfSYZnb9mpU6FnPPA7YPgwPDI2wVO0yw2rYY2PXLI_wmdxCeR2UcYPLmwqolS5zHiwY-cP8WDPRHV5kHinBDZ3kORfwqDZ7XLREpdAT57X5g-_NkWdmDOsYKFj4hX-iKn70DKQu78n3IR5fw_Ew9dwq0kbIDvHUtYupkTZRCf67upJxeSGTVnAZ3Md/w640-h490/IMG_0663.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I remember this well and I recall how pleased I was with these.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://salssnippets.blogspot.com/2009/10/christmas-crochet-amongst-other-things.html">https://salssnippets.blogspot.com/2009/10/christmas-crochet-amongst-other-things.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhCzETTaaWNUAUhIdQHweIY3MTPMEBu3l9a8jb4nKduXkj_CUymb1APsf70UpH3YVsl2_AUpaJlRMy-FroxuHXK51mJgCt1hVsVR3_gsIP5Y8S8Le8P3n2KoRmlPvmgvvGbVyMzkuV_He8sOF6p11lZ_fwwIXEIJ2T0wdKXqA-26-5wULRb5ejo4tEC7Lm/s400/IMG_0664.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhCzETTaaWNUAUhIdQHweIY3MTPMEBu3l9a8jb4nKduXkj_CUymb1APsf70UpH3YVsl2_AUpaJlRMy-FroxuHXK51mJgCt1hVsVR3_gsIP5Y8S8Le8P3n2KoRmlPvmgvvGbVyMzkuV_He8sOF6p11lZ_fwwIXEIJ2T0wdKXqA-26-5wULRb5ejo4tEC7Lm/w640-h480/IMG_0664.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So…it’s a start and now I’m going to try hard to perfect my crocheting…as they do say, ‘Practise makes Perfect’, don’t they? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Happy weekend, everyone! 🧶</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <p></p>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-75030284386416309652024-01-18T10:27:00.005+00:002024-01-18T10:30:52.382+00:00Celebrating sinks! 😁<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNe-cjuRLp6jGHyhL_mpyyVE7MSR1gskQJAuPH6KekkJwdmPhtGQoeecTlgjU4BmzwK8EVsYS8tRfLMM3iqR472GZMoVA8b1ebNWEEVJTipHB4_1nEN7yvoSTdZgEGJDWsOmXFvynZhtdKNlejenVs3Zo-QU2tRniXrDW1fnSsyxrMUJRq7e3pTSHKohTF/s4032/IMG_0588.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNe-cjuRLp6jGHyhL_mpyyVE7MSR1gskQJAuPH6KekkJwdmPhtGQoeecTlgjU4BmzwK8EVsYS8tRfLMM3iqR472GZMoVA8b1ebNWEEVJTipHB4_1nEN7yvoSTdZgEGJDWsOmXFvynZhtdKNlejenVs3Zo-QU2tRniXrDW1fnSsyxrMUJRq7e3pTSHKohTF/w640-h480/IMG_0588.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The conversation went something like this:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">“ We are having our kitchen renovated. We have a double, Belfast sink that we need to get rid of so would you like it?’</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Anyone who knows me well, would know that was what they call a ‘no brainer’! I needed no time to ‘sink’ about that! 😆</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">And so the said sink was transported from a kitchen somewhere in Gloucestershire, to a South Devon garden. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">And very heavy it was too! So much so, that I didn’t faff around, saying to my other half, ‘Let’s try it here..NO…let’s try it here..or how about here?’ </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I went into the garden before it arrived and decided that it would be best to place it on the patio, rather than haul it up the steps and then have problems levelling it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">And then came the fun! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m a lover of Alpines and whilst I was having a cuppa and browsing online, I came across a very nice site called ‘Ice Alpines’. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">This one was new to me. I do tend to have my favourites, along with the nurseries local to me but I thought I’d give this one a try…and they were offering collections of 8 or 10 at a very reasonable price, too…</span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh621rR1I3ek_SrEffX6_3AJsjPGI6v9DSdn3EANvlCFtUbtmmjrPSnaVTijUnuuP9VjZSKgpI8C_n3icXqUiaYZqZmOOdXivZRQ_Oi6df9_d0r8sfkTFkkklh3yhw_1HbjemryJq4eGjeAWidyQ530zTxi2_xT-m-9c-od9v5r-AYkYtX2wcB_6fgAAF0C/s1010/IMG_0654.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="1010" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh621rR1I3ek_SrEffX6_3AJsjPGI6v9DSdn3EANvlCFtUbtmmjrPSnaVTijUnuuP9VjZSKgpI8C_n3icXqUiaYZqZmOOdXivZRQ_Oi6df9_d0r8sfkTFkkklh3yhw_1HbjemryJq4eGjeAWidyQ530zTxi2_xT-m-9c-od9v5r-AYkYtX2wcB_6fgAAF0C/w400-h180/IMG_0654.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.icealpines.co.uk/"><span style="font-size: large;">Ice Alpines can be found here.</span></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In particular, I looked at the ‘Easy Alpine’ collection</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQXJELz7s0gxcxmwSQ_5ABKuX-Lgs-6qBEejBTuNiwtK6zb8nHSXJ7j2AMhvXJCO1BVr9AI-RxWJT54ODILTfhboG-J7zQp6FufX0TWz1lTvy0L3A2w3eNikY9WDt7yW4EdKtCZHw1orBSN08Mom0kNfPTBZTxcEn1eLrHJWo8R3gFOSyDxxYhmq9FQTK/s1668/IMG_0651.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1243" data-original-width="1668" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQXJELz7s0gxcxmwSQ_5ABKuX-Lgs-6qBEejBTuNiwtK6zb8nHSXJ7j2AMhvXJCO1BVr9AI-RxWJT54ODILTfhboG-J7zQp6FufX0TWz1lTvy0L3A2w3eNikY9WDt7yW4EdKtCZHw1orBSN08Mom0kNfPTBZTxcEn1eLrHJWo8R3gFOSyDxxYhmq9FQTK/w400-h297/IMG_0651.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM5CvQM1AbJi8jXMgVaqN2RyaSCMjzB5dH1vgELztAmwYSq9IUf27N_Od8kIadP_RSmlu-P2xL_6-Io9LkkkuGpaQlBxwtDSrYO-lsypJSQeqNjo173LpP336yFs5XpFSv2SYRXuhABqXrIPLFawNepEJf9rruS124MNWwxRO9icnOJWfqwUZWwgJVFUyb/s1668/IMG_0652.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1449" data-original-width="1668" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM5CvQM1AbJi8jXMgVaqN2RyaSCMjzB5dH1vgELztAmwYSq9IUf27N_Od8kIadP_RSmlu-P2xL_6-Io9LkkkuGpaQlBxwtDSrYO-lsypJSQeqNjo173LpP336yFs5XpFSv2SYRXuhABqXrIPLFawNepEJf9rruS124MNWwxRO9icnOJWfqwUZWwgJVFUyb/w400-h348/IMG_0652.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFM1M_ung1YmFmqFw_qh6_ir-byCXfUxU5NxEB1CRNASNQK7F4q8w8bnam4MZw8dbk7NErO0bqaucGjrh2c69rZUhrviYlhLC4Tq1wNcyQeYzZWg5_DJsYdoug5iDdwKBAHJ_UkFmY7B-L1nn0YTUXvHc8cpXmGTP_2bc0WZd7tYR734WkVYhL88emmnH2/s1668/IMG_0653.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1668" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFM1M_ung1YmFmqFw_qh6_ir-byCXfUxU5NxEB1CRNASNQK7F4q8w8bnam4MZw8dbk7NErO0bqaucGjrh2c69rZUhrviYlhLC4Tq1wNcyQeYzZWg5_DJsYdoug5iDdwKBAHJ_UkFmY7B-L1nn0YTUXvHc8cpXmGTP_2bc0WZd7tYR734WkVYhL88emmnH2/w400-h363/IMG_0653.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The service was superb! Within no time at all, my plants were with me. They were well packed…and the package even included a free plant!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">My pack included these:</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb9RvPu0K5NJInGi1ofLqD1CUW1XWlK05wGS0HqdKIbGwOP44prx72NbKbo0CBHxkt-NDSiwRcOJw1A6KyncnvBQ9NPLKRXcesbkJhUWOEKFvt6oRulSqH3vaxkFz3HufHpw4Hll3GAgxhr4a3aEhNm-aRDA4e2m1BYcnhJNuUiaSKuq6eys0d1n-FiKU7/s1100/IMG_0635.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="734" data-original-width="1100" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb9RvPu0K5NJInGi1ofLqD1CUW1XWlK05wGS0HqdKIbGwOP44prx72NbKbo0CBHxkt-NDSiwRcOJw1A6KyncnvBQ9NPLKRXcesbkJhUWOEKFvt6oRulSqH3vaxkFz3HufHpw4Hll3GAgxhr4a3aEhNm-aRDA4e2m1BYcnhJNuUiaSKuq6eys0d1n-FiKU7/w400-h268/IMG_0635.webp" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Erigeron Four Winds</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Erigeron <span style="text-align: left;">karvinskianus</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;">All that I need to do now… is get planting!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;">What with all of the vintage touches that are creeping into my garden, I can certainly say that it has everything AND the kitchen sink! I now have five,vintage sinks in my garden! Just don’t remind my other half of that! 😂</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;">But…before I finish, do you remember the small sink that I spotted in the summer, the sink that was sitting in a nursery not far away from where I live? Well…it still sits in that nursery not far away…and it’s still NOT FOR SALE!😫</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;">I guess that’s what I’ll be searching for, next! 😆</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmSzUN6SvzvrGICUhTR12iRPz-uF51eX2MbsToM-F-v1WlXRIs_gE0pCBf30DIP42mY3FC_e5pVGr-6i7r3lLRQigOZcnADcSfaGCdwb3pV4wM2sAvvMAFLg9Yi_9Q4m_Jk6ii55jyQYMRRATqH88WhiegdzfgvhchdsD-EZJO5unVMAIULCzDEkkxhNXO/s640/IMG_0655.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="640" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmSzUN6SvzvrGICUhTR12iRPz-uF51eX2MbsToM-F-v1WlXRIs_gE0pCBf30DIP42mY3FC_e5pVGr-6i7r3lLRQigOZcnADcSfaGCdwb3pV4wM2sAvvMAFLg9Yi_9Q4m_Jk6ii55jyQYMRRATqH88WhiegdzfgvhchdsD-EZJO5unVMAIULCzDEkkxhNXO/w400-h305/IMG_0655.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><p></p>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-49821978986234496372024-01-10T17:12:00.002+00:002024-01-10T17:15:47.700+00:00I’ll be a happy hooker…hopefully! 😁<p> <span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD1LZ1cPBMpEMLpy9_apRrExdqVqBddpSb9YjgGdqqmLxdvTQ4C6yLBobKN6UQ7VizJaJoolvn32-sTEU1sqpGpioQQ7cD-Cz2eyv7F7oxzpZ9bN9olNsSICA7UfSPUCLtFbSovjE5-mWt91aerOwfLuTDBXn-Cd0I3uSrK-zKwnSzUnsWtStyS2hMsIn3/s4032/IMG_0568.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD1LZ1cPBMpEMLpy9_apRrExdqVqBddpSb9YjgGdqqmLxdvTQ4C6yLBobKN6UQ7VizJaJoolvn32-sTEU1sqpGpioQQ7cD-Cz2eyv7F7oxzpZ9bN9olNsSICA7UfSPUCLtFbSovjE5-mWt91aerOwfLuTDBXn-Cd0I3uSrK-zKwnSzUnsWtStyS2hMsIn3/w480-h640/IMG_0568.jpeg" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 118, 29); font-size: x-large;">What to do through the winter months? I thought about this in October… and then Christmas took over; I pushed aside thoughts of the winter months. My craft room became a dumping ground for Christmas presents etc etc and it’s only now that I’m tidy and ready to create!</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 118, 29);"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsNP4xNAz1j4d1Zp0IIe_6gTMkJIpj48BC8Xfa06aUjd6hKMqxYHuU078jQJk9DXdtPcgf7GY8RxaoPO4lfdOQcUIRtRCnYOkMa3PGMGEZPR5l4JqbNCD6hiEXiUXyLeHy8s12ZH8IEKXs0UWeK7tzgwY15R54ojDa669r7qLf-0lIYj7mai43tzJNiH1s/s4032/IMG_0567.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsNP4xNAz1j4d1Zp0IIe_6gTMkJIpj48BC8Xfa06aUjd6hKMqxYHuU078jQJk9DXdtPcgf7GY8RxaoPO4lfdOQcUIRtRCnYOkMa3PGMGEZPR5l4JqbNCD6hiEXiUXyLeHy8s12ZH8IEKXs0UWeK7tzgwY15R54ojDa669r7qLf-0lIYj7mai43tzJNiH1s/w640-h480/IMG_0567.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">And in this fabric roll…my tasty collection of hooks! …and plenty of them! No excuse now.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF3xyx9NWQdA5Sj5qp1yfeoAi2JE6VsXW0j5vVaspycnpiYGsWgd-dlUdhATliIZ_t2oocyxNtbNImW9evu5-8432G2vm8ipelMusQ2VLmUA9slMSp9J3w_g9DVplBucZhM7myU0xFFzTLMeHRM4FozGlJKX1zVOIq9Pyw6kBhyphenhyphenko21D8nkVgJluenIF6L/s1358/IMG_0556.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="1358" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF3xyx9NWQdA5Sj5qp1yfeoAi2JE6VsXW0j5vVaspycnpiYGsWgd-dlUdhATliIZ_t2oocyxNtbNImW9evu5-8432G2vm8ipelMusQ2VLmUA9slMSp9J3w_g9DVplBucZhM7myU0xFFzTLMeHRM4FozGlJKX1zVOIq9Pyw6kBhyphenhyphenko21D8nkVgJluenIF6L/w400-h398/IMG_0556.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">I can crochet and I enjoy it. I taught myself when I was in the 6th form and needed a bag in which to carry my tennis balls! LOL! I played a lot of tennis in those days. I remember that I even lined the bag and I took it everywhere with me! </span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijws-x7ytJyzbsr5fGwaBNgnzurdJLo675h5zrGSG-8yJa4aXk3kPUDs4A4BySZlWkeKKvbKlYysfvwlc5uSyTwUj00oieAwIr2w7QEtSMzfVb4q4ltZI71ANk8qittUFV9lEmIA1nFS_Pgr7ghngb78Hoq0IGG3Lqspt-7HEwx4aJB3z3rXddALh6RtWN/s4032/IMG_0569.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijws-x7ytJyzbsr5fGwaBNgnzurdJLo675h5zrGSG-8yJa4aXk3kPUDs4A4BySZlWkeKKvbKlYysfvwlc5uSyTwUj00oieAwIr2w7QEtSMzfVb4q4ltZI71ANk8qittUFV9lEmIA1nFS_Pgr7ghngb78Hoq0IGG3Lqspt-7HEwx4aJB3z3rXddALh6RtWN/w640-h480/IMG_0569.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">After that, I didn’t do much crocheting until just before my first baby was born and I made a pram cover to pass the time.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWJfkFyz1TY_ZxsI5Re50k7GT0DuKerKEWE8Gjpr04ZDf6pBf1cvoagQ3wpQOLgrh8egno-2JBed-alFI2qHjj56X8NjPz_XSGUkYPUgJSgl_aQ-7ZxckXaigmmtSHj8gT2Z44PEK9lR7XFnu3OprC9PwyOPWVqeDKqqXCvbfVh9UcLzCLMsKVRTYDpfro/s1354/IMG_0555.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1317" data-original-width="1354" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWJfkFyz1TY_ZxsI5Re50k7GT0DuKerKEWE8Gjpr04ZDf6pBf1cvoagQ3wpQOLgrh8egno-2JBed-alFI2qHjj56X8NjPz_XSGUkYPUgJSgl_aQ-7ZxckXaigmmtSHj8gT2Z44PEK9lR7XFnu3OprC9PwyOPWVqeDKqqXCvbfVh9UcLzCLMsKVRTYDpfro/w400-h389/IMG_0555.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ever since, I’ve delved into crocheting, now and again, collecting a few books on the way.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBXzNT3VLI3uL6n2OKlRp249RhDuWaOn4tv2oHpmaB6ItEBBKv4Pcc573PffmnGurwhTwWgfB4BHGqyiI1goPjwdntMbFYX95EephNaFmG5NrYX9XIA_V4nbHZf2r8qajT0v6U9h9VVgtpcLRmGQ7OU2tE1A2oKeT1bkC0vUg8B43W8so3Gxkco82rgrdx/s650/IMG_0552.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUr2kNdqV66qMwLsz80UOQH6SPCpbRXLMMjCWOaqSmlVphyv9KDYUXMlQQ9adk67d8N0rkMwxmLeIuYXWfBTCoE9k2kuxGPqADTSGK6n2YN2-9ajje6h0hspR5Cw6ZRKlzOL_nNBgfFRnRMhocc9uik3V0lw99OI_4UzXkMuplfdHM1xI2bgML7dkigMqW/s4032/IMG_0570.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUr2kNdqV66qMwLsz80UOQH6SPCpbRXLMMjCWOaqSmlVphyv9KDYUXMlQQ9adk67d8N0rkMwxmLeIuYXWfBTCoE9k2kuxGPqADTSGK6n2YN2-9ajje6h0hspR5Cw6ZRKlzOL_nNBgfFRnRMhocc9uik3V0lw99OI_4UzXkMuplfdHM1xI2bgML7dkigMqW/w640-h480/IMG_0570.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">So now I’m ready to roll…almost…there’s just one thing lacking! The yarn! So, yesterday,I took myself to a site called Wool Warehouse, where they have an amazing selection of yarn. Choosing the colours took an age!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQyPiyhlev1w6rrlIeM31aES5OMoNbLMvad7IJv7CrKOBOabAmSVivkop3GGkCfiOIKo1L3pJTMG1RWX1J9W0c7kxuyEcq7Xq3MbPf5gbY_-WmWxiEUHQt9L7ppTwoNcyufB690IxOX2q01tvuQiEnUjGs4WMLHwEiJVeVZ7tJ1nBU5lsBf2ReXxPy3ZW/s1353/IMG_0557.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1353" data-original-width="1352" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQyPiyhlev1w6rrlIeM31aES5OMoNbLMvad7IJv7CrKOBOabAmSVivkop3GGkCfiOIKo1L3pJTMG1RWX1J9W0c7kxuyEcq7Xq3MbPf5gbY_-WmWxiEUHQt9L7ppTwoNcyufB690IxOX2q01tvuQiEnUjGs4WMLHwEiJVeVZ7tJ1nBU5lsBf2ReXxPy3ZW/s320/IMG_0557.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After much deliberating, I chose what I think is a good selection! <span style="text-align: left;">I’m really looking forward to seeing these ‘in the flesh!’</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNsmEAtY5bOqE14N8InUPqxLnMHPONFIopBxdmuX_5u2_DMD9_5IJ_MFNM_HsP5R1JyERf-j9vkLzM5Dnyu7sfD3QyjL7h7yo_QaTcHo0i4Cv1gTPJj_hjQ0Cd0HCnQNzNMrfzG4DR6j4pqmtITcOvYGtakDFO8k0dXDJJK9eVyLzsl7V7qFkbJr97LcFI/s1668/IMG_0546.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="1668" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNsmEAtY5bOqE14N8InUPqxLnMHPONFIopBxdmuX_5u2_DMD9_5IJ_MFNM_HsP5R1JyERf-j9vkLzM5Dnyu7sfD3QyjL7h7yo_QaTcHo0i4Cv1gTPJj_hjQ0Cd0HCnQNzNMrfzG4DR6j4pqmtITcOvYGtakDFO8k0dXDJJK9eVyLzsl7V7qFkbJr97LcFI/w640-h512/IMG_0546.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">After all, everyone likes a good yarn, don’t they?😁 <br /><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 118, 29);"><br /></span></span><p></p>
</div>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-15396590665373063812024-01-06T21:27:00.043+00:002024-01-07T09:39:49.848+00:00Bristol ~ Clifton ~ Al Stewart ~ Now ~ Then ~ Smiling! 😁<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Stumbling across an article, earlier, I was informed by the headline that an English city is defying the house price slump…(that's if you believe that there is one!) Being the inquisitive kind, I looked further to find that the said city was, in fact, Bristol.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5KAOpWF2G-3UdFGXxlRBp31TH2xsZgCp_PRWAFHC9KddLQTqZzhg2bjrTrg6jfW_W3xQv9dy3Uvz82p1ToFkNSbD1ih7kp2p9etrW-CVxc3GHSYNlY6_pzRBB0EMzVa6NZso43SdyzKkz7f9eyWH5iYFtjICo6yCZUYXffetYFfAayzXKaavzxOy1PDnO/s1253/IMG_0482.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1253" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5KAOpWF2G-3UdFGXxlRBp31TH2xsZgCp_PRWAFHC9KddLQTqZzhg2bjrTrg6jfW_W3xQv9dy3Uvz82p1ToFkNSbD1ih7kp2p9etrW-CVxc3GHSYNlY6_pzRBB0EMzVa6NZso43SdyzKkz7f9eyWH5iYFtjICo6yCZUYXffetYFfAayzXKaavzxOy1PDnO/w640-h510/IMG_0482.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div> Clifton Village<br /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">The strange thing is that only minutes before this, I was humming a tune, written many years ago by Al Stewart. This song being, ‘Clifton in the Rain’.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Clifton in the Rain</span></p><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The rain came down like beads</span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">Bouncing on the noses of the</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">People from the train</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">A flock of salty ears</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">Sparkled in the traffic lights</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">Feet squelched soggy leaves across the grain</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">I took my love to Clifton in the rain</div></span></span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And all along the way</span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">Wanderers in overcoats with</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">Collars on parade</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">And steaming in the night</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">The listeners in the Troubadour</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">Guitar player weaves a willow strain</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">I took my love to Clifton in the rain</div></span></span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc" jsname="U8S5sf" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Jacqueline Bisset</span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">I saw your movie</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">Wondered if you really felt that way</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">Do you ever fear</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">The images of Hollywood?</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">Have you felt a shadow of its pain?</div></span><span jsname="YS01Ge"><div style="text-align: center;">I thought of you in Clifton in the rain</div></span></span></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d;">Oh those lyrics! The English teacher in me just had one of those ‘moments’! Just look at that first verse! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d;">Sights, sounds, taste, simile, alliteration…and so much more! These lyrics shout out ‘Use me’. They shout out so much! They also shout out ‘love’! I think Al was around 22 years old when he wrote this. So simple yet so effective. I digress!</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">And as I hummed, my mind travelled back to my student days! Not only was I a HUGE Al Stewart admirer/ groupie, travelling all over the place to watch him perform ( but especially at The Marquee Club in Wardour Street, London) but I was also a frequent visitor to Bristol…that is almost every weekend! </span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">It was the early 1970s, at a time when I believe that Bristol was at its best!<span face=""Telesans Text Regular", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Every Saturday was spent enjoying the sights and sounds of Park Street, enjoying coffee and a sandwich in a little cafe called the Fleur de Lys and then wandering up to Clifton and of course, Clifton Downs. Life was simple and the city didn’t seem as threatening as it is today. I guess I’d sooner remember it as it was as the last time I visited Bristol I was horrified at what seemed to me to be a monster! How it had grown since the 1970s!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Telesans Text Regular", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Telesans Text Regular", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d;">I read the article further and it was very complimentary re certain areas of the city and how Bristol is ‘bucking the trend’. It gave the ‘hottest’ 🔥post codes and mentioned the vibrant arts/music/nightlife scene, not forgetting the fact that the city has one of the highest graduate retention rates in the country. Downsizers, upsizers and first time buyers are the key groups that are fuelling demand for property…etc etc etc!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Telesans Text Regular", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Telesans Text Regular", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d;">And it all sounded so good…until I turned to the comments! These were very mixed indeed. Many Bristolians said that they had moved out as they couldn’t stand it any more, but, in particular, they hated the traffic and the air quality! Many mentioned the graffiti. On the other hand, some say that there are excellent good road/rail/ air links and that it’s great for their commute.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Telesans Text Regular", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d;">I suppose it’s the same with any city…good and bad…and then the very last comment that I read was this:</span></span></p><p><span face=""Telesans Text Regular", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span face=""Telesans Text Regular", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">‘Clifton is amazing’ </span></p><p><span face=""Telesans Text Regular", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">I smiled.</span></p><p><span face=""Telesans Text Regular", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span face=""Telesans Text Regular", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">And I wanted to ask… ‘ What, even in the rain?’ </span></p><p><span face=""Telesans Text Regular", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">But I doubt that the writer would even know what I was on about! </span></p><p><span face=""Telesans Text Regular", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">And, after all, it was just over 50 years ago when I first listened to that track as well as wandering from Park Street to Clifton, rain or no rain. ☔️ </span></p><p><br /></p>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-50986196977208282982023-12-31T10:53:00.006+00:002023-12-31T10:58:47.419+00:00Happy New Year!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO4mwk4XNhy3gfBtGtkZVTY_PS8GxbgOQYbai0VOeMRi2PXhq7fbzhU54t9U6_16pyU6GaqX-to6hB_qFjecjIlkh1PrNfSH6EI4bD2sABi_DnxCH2G-wq6cykHAftT_Dvx_PCebvtA1r5889mBU6zChK45PoWOx-9leBjTAUiNl-vv0vnF5MNq4tVmb2h/s650/IMG_0413.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="650" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO4mwk4XNhy3gfBtGtkZVTY_PS8GxbgOQYbai0VOeMRi2PXhq7fbzhU54t9U6_16pyU6GaqX-to6hB_qFjecjIlkh1PrNfSH6EI4bD2sABi_DnxCH2G-wq6cykHAftT_Dvx_PCebvtA1r5889mBU6zChK45PoWOx-9leBjTAUiNl-vv0vnF5MNq4tVmb2h/w640-h480/IMG_0413.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Do you enjoy New Year’s Eve? I guess that I did when I was much younger but it never really featured heavily in my calendar and quite often I’ve been glad to see the back of the old year! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">What got me thinking about New Year was the mention of fireworks, yesterday. We’ve already heard fireworks in the area where I live and no doubt we will be bombarded tonight! I don’t understand people’s obsession and personally I feel that fireworks are a complete and utter waste of money; allowing people to be in possession of explosives, mystifies me…and not to mention the adverse effect on wildlife, pets etc etc. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are a nation of dog / cat / wildlife lovers …but only when it suits, it seems!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m no killjoy but when you think that there is meant to be a cost of living crisis, I could think of far better ways to spend money rather than let it go up in smoke and flames. We are a strange breed! Anyway…moving on…</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>So, I am sitting and thinking about New Year’s Eve and my mind is running overtime and then I thought I’d investigate ‘New Year’ poems! I enjoy poetry and when I came across, ‘ Eight beautiful New Year’s poems’, the </span><span>word ‘BEAUTIFUL’ jumped out at me! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">And so, thinking that I’d have a cuppa and settle down to a quiet ten minutes, enjoying something ‘beautiful’, I started to read this poem, below</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLi1-vq0nBkKOej1SyaNKNSFP_KEUXu11riB00YCJJ3ttspnkbDNETkt8OUl_LRad5Y4MQlXCSTOhptpT-BG-BPunbUMiRYE67f5hXbNb1i-nrLYO9adMSlxydwOlFD8Yaa_UHn32xPGbqGgVT_cf0G_u99R36LjdRz1RMSVVqjjXBaWF7BUjXnR1A_sl-/s1398/IMG_0414.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1398" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLi1-vq0nBkKOej1SyaNKNSFP_KEUXu11riB00YCJJ3ttspnkbDNETkt8OUl_LRad5Y4MQlXCSTOhptpT-BG-BPunbUMiRYE67f5hXbNb1i-nrLYO9adMSlxydwOlFD8Yaa_UHn32xPGbqGgVT_cf0G_u99R36LjdRz1RMSVVqjjXBaWF7BUjXnR1A_sl-/w468-h640/IMG_0414.jpeg" width="468" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Beautiful? I wouldn’t say it was beautiful, would you? More like down to earth or realistic? I wasn’t sure what to make of it really. The final lines made me feel quite sorry for the poet who seems to have resigned himself that the new year will, for him, be as mundane as the old year. Is it like that for most of us?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Personally, as far as the new year is concerned, I like to look f</span><span>orward with some hope, rather than start the new year with a doom and gloom approach. But maybe the poet thinks that if he takes his view then he might be pleasantly surprised if something good does happen! Who knows?!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Meanwhile, I’m bracing myself for the ‘WHIZZ’, ‘BANG’, ‘CRASH’, ‘FIZZ’, ‘SNAP’ ‘CRACKLE’</span><span>, ‘POP’ and words of that sort …and I’m not talking about breakfast cereal,that’s for sure! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">Sal 😁</span></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-90085823478397905042023-12-22T15:57:00.012+00:002023-12-22T16:05:28.723+00:00‘Have you put out the Christmas books?’ he asked!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTPXxQOgGEX8_PCQLjDBlqWM6s6Vx938AV4eLYpDsNc_NnTc5jwQc9vSU5KEsgrpQyvnrPQGgFOl8sJEKz4taw2lvaBcg1tVotsHTuDZQMyks2nvOcbn-Xb4ohw6rekDoVmNJYfnfc-q6fT49i9OPMmdw6kFWmdjamIbhM0GD_30HBogZ0MB5UHku4Qhz/s2213/IMG_0391.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2213" data-original-width="1552" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTPXxQOgGEX8_PCQLjDBlqWM6s6Vx938AV4eLYpDsNc_NnTc5jwQc9vSU5KEsgrpQyvnrPQGgFOl8sJEKz4taw2lvaBcg1tVotsHTuDZQMyks2nvOcbn-Xb4ohw6rekDoVmNJYfnfc-q6fT49i9OPMmdw6kFWmdjamIbhM0GD_30HBogZ0MB5UHku4Qhz/w448-h640/IMG_0391.jpeg" width="448" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A few days ago, Nich asked me if I’d ‘put out the Christmas books’ ; he must’ve read my mind as I was about to go through my bookshelves and do just that! <span>You can’t beat a lovely boo</span><span>k at Christmas and over the years, I’ve added a few Christmas themed books to my bookshelves. But, at this time of year, I usually gather together a few and they become ‘Coffee table books’, taking a trip to the lounge. These are books into which one can dip in and savour the flavour of Christmas.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi75J0gQXjGPJa2ECjvhR4iNRbwl8FRBtuaM5TZXWtEPfEU9S0ep3VE_9aGcITAMfo7qDOxjgpwU-DCMWBmIFLxGF_AP1K59aOKPnJV3YiGrbxwNFn232gIkbTfbaj-Nb9wNVZ0-tgbjmRMy4MtjNK4ANokr8auRIw9n0uLgXMWCWnPBUvxzqVRAYCSBSA/s4032/IMG_0501.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi75J0gQXjGPJa2ECjvhR4iNRbwl8FRBtuaM5TZXWtEPfEU9S0ep3VE_9aGcITAMfo7qDOxjgpwU-DCMWBmIFLxGF_AP1K59aOKPnJV3YiGrbxwNFn232gIkbTfbaj-Nb9wNVZ0-tgbjmRMy4MtjNK4ANokr8auRIw9n0uLgXMWCWnPBUvxzqVRAYCSBSA/w480-h640/IMG_0501.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">One of my favourite books is the ‘Folio Christmas Book’, above, which was an absolute gem of a find in a charity shop in St Marychurch, Torquay! Pennies! I had to look twice and couldn’t believe my luck! Folio books can be sought after and almost always come in slip cases to protect them. I love them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOKzhpd_0byEEnJ2NMxlz4b52RssulbuVfBPRctAp6aU8B7dnIamZB_hzG4PlzkzCHRJ9v2E_YU3nQLV2_ezLxZIHkKmbzIAsnEZjiS-mettlX7U-izvsZKcPGPDBt7oEK1PhcQ1N2IUs6n4xT6JH0Ta8rgQJBjhkToCI6IY7jvhL7QhM39KfoMwDNDZUN/s3928/IMG_0500.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3928" data-original-width="3013" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOKzhpd_0byEEnJ2NMxlz4b52RssulbuVfBPRctAp6aU8B7dnIamZB_hzG4PlzkzCHRJ9v2E_YU3nQLV2_ezLxZIHkKmbzIAsnEZjiS-mettlX7U-izvsZKcPGPDBt7oEK1PhcQ1N2IUs6n4xT6JH0Ta8rgQJBjhkToCI6IY7jvhL7QhM39KfoMwDNDZUN/w490-h640/IMG_0500.jpeg" width="490" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">These three books ( one above and two below) are beautifully illustrated on the covers with the gorgeous designs of Emily Sutton. The first two, are from the, ‘Vintage Classics’ series and these are a must for the Christmas coffee table.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJIlklYFT6DoJEhKJmqDZcSzo9pJYQBynwjPxQZ_3R0WsLU9FIfRUmpRNTQ13X_sOAFcSWagKARhOsVpwCF3ln5FAfDHfpTyKyemfJq1zIAn-9HsZeLOYgdktzC4ShIDDKBxqqGCt3B-cgIYzRNum8xZmqU4jYAclzuPeq_Cas84HDQnhyphenhyphenYyVGWDfplnj/s522/IMG_0390.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="328" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJIlklYFT6DoJEhKJmqDZcSzo9pJYQBynwjPxQZ_3R0WsLU9FIfRUmpRNTQ13X_sOAFcSWagKARhOsVpwCF3ln5FAfDHfpTyKyemfJq1zIAn-9HsZeLOYgdktzC4ShIDDKBxqqGCt3B-cgIYzRNum8xZmqU4jYAclzuPeq_Cas84HDQnhyphenhyphenYyVGWDfplnj/w402-h640/IMG_0390.jpeg" width="402" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And the third one, written by Katherine Randell, is a children’s book illustrated by Emily Sutton. (But it’s great for adults too!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOILYiETPevOaXPp7LYOtjVlZuF_jwXWtl220zdfIaRnQcnCvgivMUFNqKKme57SJFgvrL4eQ5VgErsMTakUYuNX2udbxyuBircFRQL05QOrCVt9h-WAd7-CSFF5ldn7i3YLLjPCJwtuTZy67wEEqjS5-8ycKhKpY_chrERlmKTWmBadswjOEC41szhiZ8/s4032/IMG_0498.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOILYiETPevOaXPp7LYOtjVlZuF_jwXWtl220zdfIaRnQcnCvgivMUFNqKKme57SJFgvrL4eQ5VgErsMTakUYuNX2udbxyuBircFRQL05QOrCVt9h-WAd7-CSFF5ldn7i3YLLjPCJwtuTZy67wEEqjS5-8ycKhKpY_chrERlmKTWmBadswjOEC41szhiZ8/w480-h640/IMG_0498.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE9lqeHG0LD_L5ayPm5_VBTofArfpEXLoRzwGef7Mb1xBzKk13P1Ct0F6WbP1WRwTElc1l0_U84OvW2_uwYXURZN6PCLd9BiYRvP9HrIk1ijbllFvcmwcCmwiIHNis5to__J1jZsuu6zfNdKDcz_D9xYPMWQwestcSGinnijrmI3erbJJpXcfWFlr8NUmY/s3626/IMG_0489.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3626" data-original-width="2716" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE9lqeHG0LD_L5ayPm5_VBTofArfpEXLoRzwGef7Mb1xBzKk13P1Ct0F6WbP1WRwTElc1l0_U84OvW2_uwYXURZN6PCLd9BiYRvP9HrIk1ijbllFvcmwcCmwiIHNis5to__J1jZsuu6zfNdKDcz_D9xYPMWQwestcSGinnijrmI3erbJJpXcfWFlr8NUmY/w480-h640/IMG_0489.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>I haven’t read these ( German and Scandinavian), yet…I bought them last year and have to admit that the covers appealed! </span><span>So I’m looking forward to dipping into these.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU87cblc2284qOrggBI5fnrVm7AnRNtj5rDvhY66AOT_mdXF-MFf3R9bp8_NKEhc-AiocsiLAq4_fjsQO5jpJwzghv6j1w20CYsYcf6t8eSnejnLBNIQsbEQ5pQY3pn9qJxvC2tkfp6JNj6o4mvurJKxI_pj0dco45zPLf1BJp7X4eM9sRvEtaqfgr0ePC/s3574/IMG_0490.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3574" data-original-width="2901" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU87cblc2284qOrggBI5fnrVm7AnRNtj5rDvhY66AOT_mdXF-MFf3R9bp8_NKEhc-AiocsiLAq4_fjsQO5jpJwzghv6j1w20CYsYcf6t8eSnejnLBNIQsbEQ5pQY3pn9qJxvC2tkfp6JNj6o4mvurJKxI_pj0dco45zPLf1BJp7X4eM9sRvEtaqfgr0ePC/w520-h640/IMG_0490.jpeg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrkWOUc_sctrlBD6Trdyj504TiQkyCDrED65odW9JrHzIm3IwS2pSyWNtIiLnTRP8camdSp_EODIFBNLIy2Xjzfm_wGl3C3EuL_4eYdZK_uL7EyUJDlOZu1gusp5_x1gVEKfJKLBQt__c0n2e6nOMVhxe5wrKazal-0pz1va5iXcq9uUCi8qv8TFEnWl5i/s3329/IMG_0491.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3329" data-original-width="2795" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrkWOUc_sctrlBD6Trdyj504TiQkyCDrED65odW9JrHzIm3IwS2pSyWNtIiLnTRP8camdSp_EODIFBNLIy2Xjzfm_wGl3C3EuL_4eYdZK_uL7EyUJDlOZu1gusp5_x1gVEKfJKLBQt__c0n2e6nOMVhxe5wrKazal-0pz1va5iXcq9uUCi8qv8TFEnWl5i/w538-h640/IMG_0491.jpeg" width="538" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Being bird lovers, this one is ideal and well worth its place on my coffee table.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And then there is…</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjet8G6KWZ48p_LMAcfG4F8N57jfNpJhUwWl95g7ANur-XlbGwn6gDFLJNH5Ejyxultj2PV14I9F-ojCPABscrZNQmgIJB_rbef-fjfwzDKSCuKl47Nat8lCR8yHBP7DGtbuo2t3r1YzLhj4BAPOSjJMEntsrQN1So-StK6klatjZOpQ9OCq1Qyk_45zs7/s3580/IMG_0492.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3580" data-original-width="2956" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjet8G6KWZ48p_LMAcfG4F8N57jfNpJhUwWl95g7ANur-XlbGwn6gDFLJNH5Ejyxultj2PV14I9F-ojCPABscrZNQmgIJB_rbef-fjfwzDKSCuKl47Nat8lCR8yHBP7DGtbuo2t3r1YzLhj4BAPOSjJMEntsrQN1So-StK6klatjZOpQ9OCq1Qyk_45zs7/w528-h640/IMG_0492.jpeg" width="528" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>As mentioned before, I’m a big New Yorker admirer, having purchased some posters, recently. </span><span>And this book is a great read! I’ve owned this one for quite a few years and so I’ve read most of what’s in it.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimP79mt7e1IRPtFOAR4W_UKk6idFgpnN7IHMbE-dUlsdjndwV3oe0LGy3OuasFhb4iapgD_ZED0J7K2y0d89ID9RbZkxZeOJh1pMGlNrsf89Sn5z4taKWRKVqLZrKx2iv1ldS2-pIvKBdm683xZOaW1BTsMRwH6N0ePRiHInAfSpxiWM-eiJseXJjj3c-o/s3770/IMG_0493.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3770" data-original-width="2868" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimP79mt7e1IRPtFOAR4W_UKk6idFgpnN7IHMbE-dUlsdjndwV3oe0LGy3OuasFhb4iapgD_ZED0J7K2y0d89ID9RbZkxZeOJh1pMGlNrsf89Sn5z4taKWRKVqLZrKx2iv1ldS2-pIvKBdm683xZOaW1BTsMRwH6N0ePRiHInAfSpxiWM-eiJseXJjj3c-o/w486-h640/IMG_0493.jpeg" width="486" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I love the writing of Laurie Lee. I used to use various extracts in my teaching as I found it so inspiring, charming and absolutely delightful. </span></div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdAbxfFCDRDOLUmtT5Z39WjZMIaJAOyol1SNaW8cOkH6ShbtWlEAFCvzwHHHMFDclJ6n3hgdf_3cbjGF8-mxxT5HD8RguLSE1VTsl19pWDr0vktSAY2fR5tLKLEOKbPb_PlquI8q2EkDRxtMRfUmyBK9y8it51GOZCsBeOnvhb4Q5SaU05XhaTENnUruG/s3953/IMG_0494.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3953" data-original-width="2899" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdAbxfFCDRDOLUmtT5Z39WjZMIaJAOyol1SNaW8cOkH6ShbtWlEAFCvzwHHHMFDclJ6n3hgdf_3cbjGF8-mxxT5HD8RguLSE1VTsl19pWDr0vktSAY2fR5tLKLEOKbPb_PlquI8q2EkDRxtMRfUmyBK9y8it51GOZCsBeOnvhb4Q5SaU05XhaTENnUruG/w470-h640/IMG_0494.jpeg" width="470" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">A gift from my son a few years ago, this lovely anthology, above, just lends itself to dipping into as does the book below, a gift from my daughter, which is full of recipes and crafts for the festive season. Perfect!</span><br /><br /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis63MkQmzZ4IPyzyC-33Ed-lCIO2msHA-nsX4hroQnQwtGCH8gGZskAR42E7HiYXTGUp-vV8bhMPQCz-n92-4wods1d7DAi8nBKs0QiGPBswxi_jX8EYX8C2H3mTlL-gk74EgYe89pfNOqy_RplX4mi4e7VY70B3eYXChvM8eTZyTkl2baObXkrVjlTPtv/s4032/IMG_0496.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis63MkQmzZ4IPyzyC-33Ed-lCIO2msHA-nsX4hroQnQwtGCH8gGZskAR42E7HiYXTGUp-vV8bhMPQCz-n92-4wods1d7DAi8nBKs0QiGPBswxi_jX8EYX8C2H3mTlL-gk74EgYe89pfNOqy_RplX4mi4e7VY70B3eYXChvM8eTZyTkl2baObXkrVjlTPtv/w480-h640/IMG_0496.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">This one’s lovely too…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDccb8FVb76Cltu0aBvsA3GMDk5QSAx893Sv5EMmB_z7O7kIXIXdqdKdxdfjiDdH219Jzy0-K3hXmqZF9JiIYVPS0ZbWR5lofz0nixtHn18SbKgB4PjTKkfi0e10_Bb2bURaQt69Ynf9I_uXZqHpzLIvOWwz4iJsh7YV-WBZBh_xGGpRVEHOYtYo7GjgqM/s3904/IMG_0488.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3904" data-original-width="2907" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDccb8FVb76Cltu0aBvsA3GMDk5QSAx893Sv5EMmB_z7O7kIXIXdqdKdxdfjiDdH219Jzy0-K3hXmqZF9JiIYVPS0ZbWR5lofz0nixtHn18SbKgB4PjTKkfi0e10_Bb2bURaQt69Ynf9I_uXZqHpzLIvOWwz4iJsh7YV-WBZBh_xGGpRVEHOYtYo7GjgqM/w476-h640/IMG_0488.jpeg" width="476" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">And this one…</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpWp_6kRin2r4kqIC0SQzh_GUx43eHLusVBJTDS4awq2UDmt6kkNb2ZlfJt8JKKks9NFhOyh5A_s3-bHRa-Mh17_nOj6efwd3CIJBVQmQGAVPpFw2vOmNJslRIMyDrm7T69QB4M_oFBFlJJduTxU9Mz5UijMVZywEBrTSZv2Lays9gQFubLEehupdEqxYq/s4032/IMG_0497.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpWp_6kRin2r4kqIC0SQzh_GUx43eHLusVBJTDS4awq2UDmt6kkNb2ZlfJt8JKKks9NFhOyh5A_s3-bHRa-Mh17_nOj6efwd3CIJBVQmQGAVPpFw2vOmNJslRIMyDrm7T69QB4M_oFBFlJJduTxU9Mz5UijMVZywEBrTSZv2Lays9gQFubLEehupdEqxYq/w480-h640/IMG_0497.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">And finally, some very easy reading…</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxUNsWN_BVDctWJ70-35t4qQahNqnyV81r5lFLAceXwj7Zbhq1RevwkfyEEPr4TqvT6MnXRmOszpLRnQUtF3N3yFykH-DWrNz4Pw6wlL82WGeB0dwgrosY9VeiPb_q8aPGa94Mqd1VagVdRKhrq0R4Xby0fpZbTH6wz8WILIJA1ivTAs2D9MbarDL-QgxO/s4032/IMG_0499.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxUNsWN_BVDctWJ70-35t4qQahNqnyV81r5lFLAceXwj7Zbhq1RevwkfyEEPr4TqvT6MnXRmOszpLRnQUtF3N3yFykH-DWrNz4Pw6wlL82WGeB0dwgrosY9VeiPb_q8aPGa94Mqd1VagVdRKhrq0R4Xby0fpZbTH6wz8WILIJA1ivTAs2D9MbarDL-QgxO/w640-h480/IMG_0499.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">All in all, a great selection! </span><p></p>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-19730715839241709412023-12-17T08:51:00.007+00:002023-12-17T09:17:33.773+00:00More Christmas goings ons! 🌲🎅🌲🎅🌲🎅🌲<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCpxoDgV7x_wSF0TybIPXJ_EbkhNxYCun2Ox26K4WlAkR2pNk7lB2nBZeXq5yvIf5HbB0LWoPJgJ5mZfMGvRBqd2Cp320lSv4xI2Qr1f9l11x3bi4zT9mUYteMVe4AL_vxtYsQqtArnrcJoa40UILaST74VMdFq-p660IgMk3erXr615La8ABkWDiaR3q/s1353/IMG_0367.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1353" data-original-width="1343" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCpxoDgV7x_wSF0TybIPXJ_EbkhNxYCun2Ox26K4WlAkR2pNk7lB2nBZeXq5yvIf5HbB0LWoPJgJ5mZfMGvRBqd2Cp320lSv4xI2Qr1f9l11x3bi4zT9mUYteMVe4AL_vxtYsQqtArnrcJoa40UILaST74VMdFq-p660IgMk3erXr615La8ABkWDiaR3q/w636-h640/IMG_0367.jpeg" width="636" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">This morning I was all geared up for doing various chores etc. And so asking my husband to do a simple task to help, I couldn’t understand why he actually did the task but then disappeared for what seemed like an age! Husbands can be strange! I started to get worried as I couldn’t hear him in his workshop either. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">However, he appeared some time later and asked me to come to the bedroom window to help him identify something outside! And unbeknown to me…this was what he’d been up to! Bless that man!</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dykHJZAT8g05DWo2ub9bifNMLdfldUJ5TnA9yOzXl-ipqDmB2lPN1WD7RldqrI5XVamXaVhMZI-jXijB_U8Ag' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">We live in an area, that many years ago, we christened, ‘Tinsel Town’. I used to put my children in the car and drive over here just to show them the lights on the many houses! They loved it! However, we drove around a few days ago and I was quite disappointed! Underwhelmed in fact! So I just happened to mention how lovely it would be to do something ‘Christmas lights’ wise. We live at the end of a three house cul de sac and so we have the perfect place to string the lights, for effect!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meanwhile, I’d been making the house ready for guests, today and also admiring this lovely card from Nich and family…</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgURTWaajMEAko-2uPbbcv-px7BRRNuJtbIpoHyixwf-rYN9X7hkGx0cAwKoWOEJl2KZTT0k9w_2FqFElBJo0SJeemDt0J9XAceBzupXSTOiM5LmdBrYjgail-LEyPzdE8DotgKUadDEC0XeSAW6FcRCtpQchaOWpDOPAOGmhkI0-s6ICvewWbNXB6zGyPr/s4032/IMG_0471.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgURTWaajMEAko-2uPbbcv-px7BRRNuJtbIpoHyixwf-rYN9X7hkGx0cAwKoWOEJl2KZTT0k9w_2FqFElBJo0SJeemDt0J9XAceBzupXSTOiM5LmdBrYjgail-LEyPzdE8DotgKUadDEC0XeSAW6FcRCtpQchaOWpDOPAOGmhkI0-s6ICvewWbNXB6zGyPr/w480-h640/IMG_0471.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span>…as well as lighting a couple of </span><span>candles…I’m a Yankee Candle fan! I know that there are so many lovely candles on the market but for burning time and scent, I like these the most…this one being ‘Red Apple Wreath’…</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE50rRT0IDQm9Z6tgruwfr1y4zCpza6-w6JP77otWmY1BseaHCmqz-5gu4V9-PUe8yk_qUa73ZxgP7ZSHvkY9YwwLTfWIlC1f0G5I7xyekpbDtUJMpLWok9e25QRPePnnD4bKXwFF9p0G1F9Bmp_HKnprVIccuhJclBxSksa3KBJbk39E5r48IfonCYk-r/s2041/IMG_0363.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2041" data-original-width="1656" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE50rRT0IDQm9Z6tgruwfr1y4zCpza6-w6JP77otWmY1BseaHCmqz-5gu4V9-PUe8yk_qUa73ZxgP7ZSHvkY9YwwLTfWIlC1f0G5I7xyekpbDtUJMpLWok9e25QRPePnnD4bKXwFF9p0G1F9Bmp_HKnprVIccuhJclBxSksa3KBJbk39E5r48IfonCYk-r/w520-h640/IMG_0363.jpeg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I love the smells around the house at Christmas time and making one’s own pot pourri is easy too! I recently used some oranges and lemons that had gone past their best and I added them to a small bag of pot pourri that someone had given to me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqkpNGEE_1OVb3dFL8iym0ZaiPX-rQkJNKshKXVuQ2Y6xyVdJb3oQnTW7noxeJmUkeX1RFXV0j-3DpVT1y0efBLJVIsz7dqKvDCVkWWTrG7oP7sv2yCBF7WBikvJqbRgK2U72udKhrdx9CwsT_tNTO_0P9BgWKPRhU5F4Ut546CIoyiGUnECh3jQFG9G_b/s1668/IMG_0365.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1657" data-original-width="1668" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqkpNGEE_1OVb3dFL8iym0ZaiPX-rQkJNKshKXVuQ2Y6xyVdJb3oQnTW7noxeJmUkeX1RFXV0j-3DpVT1y0efBLJVIsz7dqKvDCVkWWTrG7oP7sv2yCBF7WBikvJqbRgK2U72udKhrdx9CwsT_tNTO_0P9BgWKPRhU5F4Ut546CIoyiGUnECh3jQFG9G_b/w640-h636/IMG_0365.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>I was also ‘faffing around’, as one does, with a bag of moss, some vintage terracotta pots, pine cones, candles, berries and </span><span>catkins…</span></span></div><p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTN6kyOr2PJhhM59gwAYlGAxSaFE-WaPn-Jz4WLKY2pLWl72npcMDmzG2veIV22QfvKpWMEPcWUjbZwLDZzwEpd_mpUzcwqbM61P5K6PFxoMtymHzxngfNeYw1_v_jcs1CsmCzUmzXIhVc_BQyFrEIQAspHHPokygonQSplqx5deiqg1IMMsefnIsiTJFo/s3997/IMG_0465.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2588" data-original-width="3997" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTN6kyOr2PJhhM59gwAYlGAxSaFE-WaPn-Jz4WLKY2pLWl72npcMDmzG2veIV22QfvKpWMEPcWUjbZwLDZzwEpd_mpUzcwqbM61P5K6PFxoMtymHzxngfNeYw1_v_jcs1CsmCzUmzXIhVc_BQyFrEIQAspHHPokygonQSplqx5deiqg1IMMsefnIsiTJFo/w640-h414/IMG_0465.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve got quite a production line going, just for extra gifts should anyone call!</span></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9NWUCdWYfebmSDzmiVN50BGQffJP4gggyLZVpCYpnMfF4afnk07n7OO4ELgMYEyt3kur3dfFDqd9-8RJt8oM50bBAPns7WmBsBgWSSQRiyNXEHFZHWE7DRR0Rmz9RshKC7b7DCjzEnxPlw1Jf0ppD08KfrvrGF9mixcf0OaKPzQ03sY2eklFILgWk52a9/s4032/IMG_0466.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9NWUCdWYfebmSDzmiVN50BGQffJP4gggyLZVpCYpnMfF4afnk07n7OO4ELgMYEyt3kur3dfFDqd9-8RJt8oM50bBAPns7WmBsBgWSSQRiyNXEHFZHWE7DRR0Rmz9RshKC7b7DCjzEnxPlw1Jf0ppD08KfrvrGF9mixcf0OaKPzQ03sY2eklFILgWk52a9/w480-h640/IMG_0466.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZqKPnoV4aGTPmAv5jwE9Tq-sf6u2H9PNOye7kDJWdVRYVvZzgDdtfF7T-d3-4U5PHwldMBpIbbbZnBzTxuOuTptpM4lejPnJrgjVfMQwNF8ivqrgE16llflr4bl7fE-tKt_ip5UKz_qa95bQ7MmdZArZPla7JKzvGLmz5BecSmT1aMBJMspLLoS-3ZqXs/s4032/IMG_0467.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZqKPnoV4aGTPmAv5jwE9Tq-sf6u2H9PNOye7kDJWdVRYVvZzgDdtfF7T-d3-4U5PHwldMBpIbbbZnBzTxuOuTptpM4lejPnJrgjVfMQwNF8ivqrgE16llflr4bl7fE-tKt_ip5UKz_qa95bQ7MmdZArZPla7JKzvGLmz5BecSmT1aMBJMspLLoS-3ZqXs/w480-h640/IMG_0467.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And here’s another must for the coffee table at Christmas! The Radio Times, that is! Nich very kindly picked this up for me and I’m looking forward to earmarking the viewing that appeals to me. I just hope that there will be something worth watching as over the last few weeks, we’ve struggled to find anything worth watching!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I love University Challenge and I see that the Christmas episodes are on this week and next…which might mean we’ll be able to answer a few more of the questions than we usually do! I admit that I’m not a massive fan of the present set up. Not only does Amol Rajan read the questions far too quickly, (and he even speeds up towards the end of the show) but nowadays there is so little thinking time as the students buzz so quickly! But I still love to watch the show and keep my brain active! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTOu82sQw6kqWRm3E7DZZ1YE7Y2milPY2OJ5eML2zMKJIIAXdmog_TN5IZbg5otYdpfKP1P5y7vTf0P8RH-0TSTKmkgVY2FtHT9RZaXEYrpp454bdTpha1sgRGBoUAFG7z5GvpJRR9zHmuV6KgTI99Gtjl15v3E7GZet_f1ZSMQc5mb3jY8CM_nSzYKEiN/s4032/IMG_0479.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTOu82sQw6kqWRm3E7DZZ1YE7Y2milPY2OJ5eML2zMKJIIAXdmog_TN5IZbg5otYdpfKP1P5y7vTf0P8RH-0TSTKmkgVY2FtHT9RZaXEYrpp454bdTpha1sgRGBoUAFG7z5GvpJRR9zHmuV6KgTI99Gtjl15v3E7GZet_f1ZSMQc5mb3jY8CM_nSzYKEiN/w480-h640/IMG_0479.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Finally, I actually managed to do some reading as well…just three chapters! It’s </span><span>easy reading but guaranteed to get one firmly into the Christmas spirit!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz2DyAl3MB1A4oSEB9d1Fz8L8_s52OMc46sxReCw3M_1VvetVqCI-_tWntRJ_BDNGDyfI2R4AiDH6V3pGpAdyZY25Smt8U8QG1-PTJ6N5fs7sA0J0TuF5X6Y0fICBIfCFxBqrcGi2EMnwgF_TpM90o6Ii3geAC_vxN7A1z5FeXvwNTl5mJwX8IQAbCUOXF/s4032/IMG_0476.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz2DyAl3MB1A4oSEB9d1Fz8L8_s52OMc46sxReCw3M_1VvetVqCI-_tWntRJ_BDNGDyfI2R4AiDH6V3pGpAdyZY25Smt8U8QG1-PTJ6N5fs7sA0J0TuF5X6Y0fICBIfCFxBqrcGi2EMnwgF_TpM90o6Ii3geAC_vxN7A1z5FeXvwNTl5mJwX8IQAbCUOXF/w480-h640/IMG_0476.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Christmas books are always part of my Christmas and they all add to the flavour of the festive season! That’s for the next blog post! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And finally, did anyone watch Strictly, the final?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>I’ve loved it and someone managed to persuade ‘Mr Snippets’ to watch it too. His commentary is always far better than anyone’s! 😁 I had to bribe him with a ‘Dine in meal for 2’! And so, every Saturday, we settled down to watch Strictly with our meal…and I’ve loved every minute of it! And I’m very </span><span>glad that Ellie and her partner, Vito, won this year’s competition!</span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-65965496823064549982023-12-12T23:23:00.004+00:002023-12-12T23:25:46.809+00:00The run up to Christmas! 🌲<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRt3roSPnArcZEJAGH2sshi3NpnTinbwwXvlnhStpThljC5b9priNbKxiezDZmyYcXDDlyAfAL86kb6nAXvk1S-vKq9ZFCiYzUIzqZIOamSrfGGto41q1AkH3O1RdglGVP93PMaRYL4iaeF5LfEolZdFuEX1l-uMRzQYUNbrNdbOypV_YOn07hNTscg9u_/s4032/IMG_0426.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRt3roSPnArcZEJAGH2sshi3NpnTinbwwXvlnhStpThljC5b9priNbKxiezDZmyYcXDDlyAfAL86kb6nAXvk1S-vKq9ZFCiYzUIzqZIOamSrfGGto41q1AkH3O1RdglGVP93PMaRYL4iaeF5LfEolZdFuEX1l-uMRzQYUNbrNdbOypV_YOn07hNTscg9u_/w480-h640/IMG_0426.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I love the run up to Christmas as much as the day itself! There’s always plenty to do…and yet I never get stressed at Christmas!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I think if you give yourself plenty of time to plan and organise, with a good amount of time before Christmas Day, to chill, then all is good. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Having said that, how I ever managed with a full time teaching job plus a family, goodness knows! But I do know that Christmas in a primary school classroom was wonderful… and I really do miss those days, especially the old days, when, come December 1st, although we still had to get the basics done each day… (and I was a stickler for making sure that the children kept on top of their reading), we somehow managed to create the most festive, colourful and exciting environment! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Christmas cards ; Christmas hats for the Christmas Party; Calendars for mum and dad; learning new songs for the Christmas concert and a whole load of walls and frieze boards to cover with creations of all things Christmas. Lovely! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">And so, when I found the little map tree, above, I immediately put on my teacher’s hat… what a fab idea yet so simple! I chose that one as it has Torcross and the South Hams on it… we enjoy venturing that way…and we did so today…</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHld8bTedZiUPQei0Rc2itj-mJS7PY3jEXcTnHr2Ixw0T2Q10EPik0SxxQVK7bOZQgMpeoFQGWpChH5LVxcjIHm6AfuF6HEIKggmCABbnJLZwmBVMUPUKGdnn-wnBPz4GDsoCU9ISBTmwH653-U9duW51TRGaE98SbXvTuxQushseN9IT0KsxcQGLB1hoE/s4032/IMG_0421.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHld8bTedZiUPQei0Rc2itj-mJS7PY3jEXcTnHr2Ixw0T2Q10EPik0SxxQVK7bOZQgMpeoFQGWpChH5LVxcjIHm6AfuF6HEIKggmCABbnJLZwmBVMUPUKGdnn-wnBPz4GDsoCU9ISBTmwH653-U9duW51TRGaE98SbXvTuxQushseN9IT0KsxcQGLB1hoE/w480-h640/IMG_0421.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />We went to The Avon Mill Garden Centre, in the South Hams and it was such a lovely visit! The displays are always so inviting!</span><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0QQCDB0pXx7jSKCKEew0-91uhIqCwViRiHcPtzWD1CATRdi5x05ewY558fMVNnGE75YOUwrjUFv6J5UVeITOF5thoB8KZbSdsW9ZjhXJkum9B7w2a_NBYoQ6Pwf_rm6jySrd_xyf2igHmx2laJUT4P6JrVmDFLMWAwS_3noipOFk2U8RaCvaZUrgSxZX6/s4032/IMG_0416.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0QQCDB0pXx7jSKCKEew0-91uhIqCwViRiHcPtzWD1CATRdi5x05ewY558fMVNnGE75YOUwrjUFv6J5UVeITOF5thoB8KZbSdsW9ZjhXJkum9B7w2a_NBYoQ6Pwf_rm6jySrd_xyf2igHmx2laJUT4P6JrVmDFLMWAwS_3noipOFk2U8RaCvaZUrgSxZX6/w640-h480/IMG_0416.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht-wccQyLq3zoy95OL-eq5fq24_MfIQMdyIdlBDuR_ddgfEWdIjEH0mt2Swuu_lldjAzsFUmQhc94oYFK462qmvF7y3iIXQG36Mh6gzBpgx-nzKimQsmSSG_4DKW2xNDNt-W3a0CvrO_J9rpGz6Kea9h5M8HGvxTpjxHk3VWzidyylp30w2H6f1VvADeMz/s4032/IMG_0417.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht-wccQyLq3zoy95OL-eq5fq24_MfIQMdyIdlBDuR_ddgfEWdIjEH0mt2Swuu_lldjAzsFUmQhc94oYFK462qmvF7y3iIXQG36Mh6gzBpgx-nzKimQsmSSG_4DKW2xNDNt-W3a0CvrO_J9rpGz6Kea9h5M8HGvxTpjxHk3VWzidyylp30w2H6f1VvADeMz/w640-h480/IMG_0417.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And this little unit was full of locally made crafts..and the prices were so reasonable too!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9veiQvOlwJbPEQysEGEnPPF6Mf75v2AMDZxrjitNLaEwiScAYOnb-B9WfH_TWXbe2yOzR1I-sTUWvnkbdpT4pWEUytOg_xssPA9UX3I2otPj5dW2lYV3mDiXwpU8jdgxikvHGQIPSBAHJaBhIlP4Rf7xHasUWWmPZkZZTI4kUFSQnLaXFMVcnvId74JvQ/s4032/IMG_0419.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9veiQvOlwJbPEQysEGEnPPF6Mf75v2AMDZxrjitNLaEwiScAYOnb-B9WfH_TWXbe2yOzR1I-sTUWvnkbdpT4pWEUytOg_xssPA9UX3I2otPj5dW2lYV3mDiXwpU8jdgxikvHGQIPSBAHJaBhIlP4Rf7xHasUWWmPZkZZTI4kUFSQnLaXFMVcnvId74JvQ/w640-h480/IMG_0419.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA7zltnzeJX1gl-ZP478HL1iB4ZNK7tYu0jGAFgPO2pZr_k4JSBwWyligGLddI6Dvr_w8WF4755VK1EzSoJRAL1qXf9FK6AfGKwZPWtYGTqLKVplWtNiecn5RgAC5caWAFJwWavcNmneMTWtvmj1mNrXfOqKa2VlLgbRzOgYSotdYK0V5Ui0wXerbg98qr/s4032/IMG_0420.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA7zltnzeJX1gl-ZP478HL1iB4ZNK7tYu0jGAFgPO2pZr_k4JSBwWyligGLddI6Dvr_w8WF4755VK1EzSoJRAL1qXf9FK6AfGKwZPWtYGTqLKVplWtNiecn5RgAC5caWAFJwWavcNmneMTWtvmj1mNrXfOqKa2VlLgbRzOgYSotdYK0V5Ui0wXerbg98qr/w480-h640/IMG_0420.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: center;">I spotted these vintage clay pots with moss, candle, fir </span><span style="text-align: center;">cones, tiny catkins…and again, I thought t’was so simple for last minute presents! Obviously, I brought one home with me! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLJD_gG1F7CAxmQgVHOMCT2x91n022HqdV6e3syx84-D4TLs4Ebme_s2LvJVMeJspn4Kk9JFyhZKd2j5uhCHYo_O1FDp32OZwgq6VezoNS5HpF8CRnKF4jkiRHM7AM3GUDBB9R9LPXGGKDRPFtNqchae73HQL4CUklyjth-vophW81mRFRbWS0zeJ1Ibgc/s4032/IMG_0427.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLJD_gG1F7CAxmQgVHOMCT2x91n022HqdV6e3syx84-D4TLs4Ebme_s2LvJVMeJspn4Kk9JFyhZKd2j5uhCHYo_O1FDp32OZwgq6VezoNS5HpF8CRnKF4jkiRHM7AM3GUDBB9R9LPXGGKDRPFtNqchae73HQL4CUklyjth-vophW81mRFRbWS0zeJ1Ibgc/w480-h640/IMG_0427.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We aren’t going mad with presents this year, having agreed between us that we will give each other a small, ‘token’ gift but we’ll spend a bit more on the grandchildren. What’s important is the company!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Z6zangXli4FYJAfjKBS-3QKlrMmAcDcMSxhHH9aWFyA2PEOeZIja3txIoaoKgXUYq72LsMYhrA1SArrUs8s78o644Uzg6YG-i_ZvsqVN7jar1HldVYm6Zp3K6kf-uUBtorT5yuIVlmgjL2Mw43frr9fw445OJpyu8iUDJ-r5DZIpUd-0C1A7eSEc9oKg/s4032/IMG_0429.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Z6zangXli4FYJAfjKBS-3QKlrMmAcDcMSxhHH9aWFyA2PEOeZIja3txIoaoKgXUYq72LsMYhrA1SArrUs8s78o644Uzg6YG-i_ZvsqVN7jar1HldVYm6Zp3K6kf-uUBtorT5yuIVlmgjL2Mw43frr9fw445OJpyu8iUDJ-r5DZIpUd-0C1A7eSEc9oKg/w640-h480/IMG_0429.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Meanwhile, give me a packet of paper napkins and I’m happy! </span><span>I picked these even though my husband keeps </span><span>telling me that ‘Baubles are out this year!’</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Oooo errrrr Missus! 😂</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVjzEXGanpWzIggcM6S9aoYe1MFzjAXM9y1W40MZvYSkABIUS0ISZD9tMWkZOLaFuyEIGLlbfYZxUg2yhB5BtBfBQD5-BqnD4etLoa8XwdutkJ7cqbgC_7g_Z_QnKS8Ow8KGVNrw1mZCSuNZ8JTOV0mwvRdaye6YCrK-gjMNMZlXIggHez0Wpob1419IwO/s4032/IMG_0445.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVjzEXGanpWzIggcM6S9aoYe1MFzjAXM9y1W40MZvYSkABIUS0ISZD9tMWkZOLaFuyEIGLlbfYZxUg2yhB5BtBfBQD5-BqnD4etLoa8XwdutkJ7cqbgC_7g_Z_QnKS8Ow8KGVNrw1mZCSuNZ8JTOV0mwvRdaye6YCrK-gjMNMZlXIggHez0Wpob1419IwO/w480-h640/IMG_0445.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>I also bought this jar of ‘Christmas shaped’ cutters, with a view to putting it away for a present, but for the moment it looks good on the dresser! </span><span>Talking of which, I do love to ‘dress’ my dresser at Christmas but I realised last week that I’ve lost a napkin ring in our house move…I’ve had these for over 25 years and so I’m pretty vexed even though they were only cheap from a shop in Totnes! </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSkEyyMNviFryR6-bGBZ9TtBfYgJaf41fJ2sqqO70aA6bgWxVXgqbaXh7rmwyd8FjTVXAsjualuomLU0knHiYriKBP3L9p1vuKPbCSG6R2pUvXmauvL5UKAjwWt6D2hYtzNBctSdyJjY8Yog6rlj7TXDc8rC8T364rcixGhxORfdyy6Ff_s4XhcWyDgmk2/s4032/IMG_0433.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSkEyyMNviFryR6-bGBZ9TtBfYgJaf41fJ2sqqO70aA6bgWxVXgqbaXh7rmwyd8FjTVXAsjualuomLU0knHiYriKBP3L9p1vuKPbCSG6R2pUvXmauvL5UKAjwWt6D2hYtzNBctSdyJjY8Yog6rlj7TXDc8rC8T364rcixGhxORfdyy6Ff_s4XhcWyDgmk2/w640-h480/IMG_0433.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">So in spite of searching high and low, I couldn’t find it and so I went on the hunt for a set of 4 napkin rings, not wishing to splash out too much money! And I found these:</span><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNNpn_xRriV1C3rkvYlVK7sbb_kUxwVVCq15wcwtUe4mAsLrZEhinx6X_L6jH39GywIwIncYFru30mKREdKBuIjeJKvRC9ZmgIJ4k-ZUJHPNYfqYpUOsXhiO8lk6iXse6Lb_qikt3QGqiD8bgpxrDJ0QIUyWwJv6wYY2c_sp7kgcENI-9Fd-fSXsW4GXmN/s4032/IMG_0436.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNNpn_xRriV1C3rkvYlVK7sbb_kUxwVVCq15wcwtUe4mAsLrZEhinx6X_L6jH39GywIwIncYFru30mKREdKBuIjeJKvRC9ZmgIJ4k-ZUJHPNYfqYpUOsXhiO8lk6iXse6Lb_qikt3QGqiD8bgpxrDJ0QIUyWwJv6wYY2c_sp7kgcENI-9Fd-fSXsW4GXmN/w480-h640/IMG_0436.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meanwhile…</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Do you ever get the urge to take a snoop in </span><span>other peoples’ houses at Christmas time?!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I do! 😂 😱</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">If you do, then here are a few more snippets from my house!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrQGf7-m5FHAlX29YMXJoNXDqcETgxrdV6YbJFT6VwxenOqCBalKRgZ-36AU538Ek_h9VutrT1Tg5gQwdcHehvydMX_en5K0X_diRmgN6R1wDCK5XprQ13WggzvDNwdn-QtNsjRNeKa3sm8ei19hONaacflLSMlmt2MLloUajW6Trz_VXOXCFxnti_zrdH/s4032/IMG_0447.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrQGf7-m5FHAlX29YMXJoNXDqcETgxrdV6YbJFT6VwxenOqCBalKRgZ-36AU538Ek_h9VutrT1Tg5gQwdcHehvydMX_en5K0X_diRmgN6R1wDCK5XprQ13WggzvDNwdn-QtNsjRNeKa3sm8ei19hONaacflLSMlmt2MLloUajW6Trz_VXOXCFxnti_zrdH/w640-h480/IMG_0447.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Most of my Christmas ‘bits and pieces’ have a history and have been with me for years. These cake decorations above, for instance! I know exactly where I bought them…it was a cook shop, called Lawsons, in Plymouth. And I’m going back 40 years! I guess they’d now be classed as ‘vintage’!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEj7ZZpNaycEivbsUwTvYVEJxowyp_ympFmMKGqLXmjZCxPx14_3XH4_kKDhg-fdUFFeafstFlv4slxyWRFfjYpbO_hjUZiHmk_gdz_aou3YbWBiFcIG135dqZZUbQZGUgLtEioVzdYQ7MT7ucSEeZjrgRElOl3KqXa4aU6yjsDAZXMJt2fQhX2tkUZuz/s4032/IMG_0448.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEj7ZZpNaycEivbsUwTvYVEJxowyp_ympFmMKGqLXmjZCxPx14_3XH4_kKDhg-fdUFFeafstFlv4slxyWRFfjYpbO_hjUZiHmk_gdz_aou3YbWBiFcIG135dqZZUbQZGUgLtEioVzdYQ7MT7ucSEeZjrgRElOl3KqXa4aU6yjsDAZXMJt2fQhX2tkUZuz/w640-h480/IMG_0448.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Above, you can spy the Santa candle….but I should say Julenisse…this candle came from Norway and was given to me in the 1970s! I’ve never had the heart to light it.</span><div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTxpMkKamebucGK7LFCP2upjaGtz1kQWzWY3DLUG6dIRP9WE7QCEqpOVFfB6LxEAX-tv8edbnSjFIPylvRGOWQyEisZioGAiN8dpcngy4N4bS2DybA_iApRBrHckCZkqGk5Lc1rj2t01izU8azCpC3VuqF4Zib8AqJM1Aynl2EO0vz351pS6siMCW_zqD-/s4032/IMG_0450.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTxpMkKamebucGK7LFCP2upjaGtz1kQWzWY3DLUG6dIRP9WE7QCEqpOVFfB6LxEAX-tv8edbnSjFIPylvRGOWQyEisZioGAiN8dpcngy4N4bS2DybA_iApRBrHckCZkqGk5Lc1rj2t01izU8azCpC3VuqF4Zib8AqJM1Aynl2EO0vz351pS6siMCW_zqD-/w480-h640/IMG_0450.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">My sister gave me this little angel bag, above, some years ago. I think it came from Accessorize. And just below, she also gave me this delightful bag with a present in it; this is from Betty’s of York. Designed by Emily Sutton, I’ve treasured it! I love her designs. I also bought the Christmas tins, which she designed for Betty’s.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqC2-eakFpXLsmq5K7V-j-K1QneAxJTf0tG05Dt6662oCxkdJCQ2oE5A-ahswnrF-O4lZpQitGviDlj2lvgdSMdEWjbs1YIpYxMzY3HwgM1oA6l5V0V6BTaYfM30-W624GIbp8XTpiHSrdI9_j7dHMvRZc9OxrL_kmxGu_5Pm_r1c9X1jNykVQ6CQrLYH5/s4032/IMG_0451.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqC2-eakFpXLsmq5K7V-j-K1QneAxJTf0tG05Dt6662oCxkdJCQ2oE5A-ahswnrF-O4lZpQitGviDlj2lvgdSMdEWjbs1YIpYxMzY3HwgM1oA6l5V0V6BTaYfM30-W624GIbp8XTpiHSrdI9_j7dHMvRZc9OxrL_kmxGu_5Pm_r1c9X1jNykVQ6CQrLYH5/w640-h480/IMG_0451.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMBcT4cwDrInZsTVMibwC7VVtlirTlk9_y3Eo4idCW4Y0lwtqKfuOazCMNw5pPe6DAnxbWR8_2HGiq2IueXNJHNvPeIDU5Q2D9ZZ4LXpYgSh_Ud4g8uASOw9ERCsDI-YdjbkdjkZ8MZ1F7-_isMgdbYembvWCbAfLEYXcGuvhcG_sTC2_l1NVc_MdGsjfP/s1633/IMG_0331.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="1633" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMBcT4cwDrInZsTVMibwC7VVtlirTlk9_y3Eo4idCW4Y0lwtqKfuOazCMNw5pPe6DAnxbWR8_2HGiq2IueXNJHNvPeIDU5Q2D9ZZ4LXpYgSh_Ud4g8uASOw9ERCsDI-YdjbkdjkZ8MZ1F7-_isMgdbYembvWCbAfLEYXcGuvhcG_sTC2_l1NVc_MdGsjfP/w640-h534/IMG_0331.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"> So much detail!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZBgl7mL-O3muHagaYajA-XC8PWr0n_kKAMr49-tHOvKS0W3Ntb0dq34-QqnBG0nK7-1K4kw7HsvK_CM7rq26ctSBDb42UI0zxWdHO1JVcUUguDRHsDMVkxH6UAooLFK4Y-HJPBOkOW89_xA_yEXDhG015jM74y1GX95aVtjvCMvYRJs1GFJtHA9-eRsTM/s1582/IMG_0332.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1442" data-original-width="1582" height="584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZBgl7mL-O3muHagaYajA-XC8PWr0n_kKAMr49-tHOvKS0W3Ntb0dq34-QqnBG0nK7-1K4kw7HsvK_CM7rq26ctSBDb42UI0zxWdHO1JVcUUguDRHsDMVkxH6UAooLFK4Y-HJPBOkOW89_xA_yEXDhG015jM74y1GX95aVtjvCMvYRJs1GFJtHA9-eRsTM/w640-h584/IMG_0332.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This little wooden postcard, below, was a present a few years ago. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdxeXqd2KO27S5wkInqMPW8C0T6SchhLrvPxLPrgR35NrBJvTlAyG4RADS3VdQY0iCBU7AAuLfwthc_VOixsJrC39UGpxux2m72mWSgUtj4mASPyhnOwprNJR_4qcKT6jRG6-iwpE6tAGxNTkFEWhDRWmNuNGcOjeMJqITp0qqO9d-6hA86iRReaSS6lQN/s4032/IMG_0449.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdxeXqd2KO27S5wkInqMPW8C0T6SchhLrvPxLPrgR35NrBJvTlAyG4RADS3VdQY0iCBU7AAuLfwthc_VOixsJrC39UGpxux2m72mWSgUtj4mASPyhnOwprNJR_4qcKT6jRG6-iwpE6tAGxNTkFEWhDRWmNuNGcOjeMJqITp0qqO9d-6hA86iRReaSS6lQN/w480-h640/IMG_0449.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And these felt Santas came from M&S, many years ago..with sweets included. I reckon these would be easy to make too!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQNgPbwojvf1umtxDpjZC_u3wCalphIQPXBm01qT7WSqbg-YVlXqjpgaN8B8cEidnUSc6mvuJ92EhRT40ru3YnphyphenhyphenusTVf6nmWfCFIu5YTtBQMvANQuJGj3ZujWFpk18ZuhQpDjaLLLfbQ5q-FD6D3mBMXpG6oEML86BvRByMZVAubhYQwGTlNA1f3hgvF/s4032/IMG_0453.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQNgPbwojvf1umtxDpjZC_u3wCalphIQPXBm01qT7WSqbg-YVlXqjpgaN8B8cEidnUSc6mvuJ92EhRT40ru3YnphyphenhyphenusTVf6nmWfCFIu5YTtBQMvANQuJGj3ZujWFpk18ZuhQpDjaLLLfbQ5q-FD6D3mBMXpG6oEML86BvRByMZVAubhYQwGTlNA1f3hgvF/w640-h480/IMG_0453.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">My daughter made these ‘light up’ box frames, a few years ago…</span></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Jw1fOMoIiu5qnay8_Do3vHVLboH4__O50CLr3uHSgGX-oFU2J0oFvPYEOzH9mVFLMTh0o8qOGw9XBnKZvkp57mBmt8vypvuR7drBe3cVEgPv5HCRn_VWQ_GJWSoK1B83lX25-KzEzhuImNU6uqmhn0UoLKH-rdspN1yt5zzL-HMUaU0nzR10OKRvl_Pq/s4032/IMG_0454.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Jw1fOMoIiu5qnay8_Do3vHVLboH4__O50CLr3uHSgGX-oFU2J0oFvPYEOzH9mVFLMTh0o8qOGw9XBnKZvkp57mBmt8vypvuR7drBe3cVEgPv5HCRn_VWQ_GJWSoK1B83lX25-KzEzhuImNU6uqmhn0UoLKH-rdspN1yt5zzL-HMUaU0nzR10OKRvl_Pq/w640-h480/IMG_0454.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That’s it for now…and I haven’t even mentioned the smells and aromas wafting around the house!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Pot Pourri and Yankee Candles are truly making their presence felt right now!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UbYAED1CNr7irwZFNy7Rj5XdcPxrcx-l_FAvVc8ziyE_jsHBTWJhvOAdw4EtVCbiZBoscxsBYNzgJpIfrrsz7r5JCirB5m2LeTIxRls0KZsCnB03-S4J5eV3TmXiuCzDFKXKzTYtKVsVSU09MfOzbqGqSp29wmK466RgnaNZsaLw2rxE_JOsV6mQRoHo/s4032/IMG_0434.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UbYAED1CNr7irwZFNy7Rj5XdcPxrcx-l_FAvVc8ziyE_jsHBTWJhvOAdw4EtVCbiZBoscxsBYNzgJpIfrrsz7r5JCirB5m2LeTIxRls0KZsCnB03-S4J5eV3TmXiuCzDFKXKzTYtKVsVSU09MfOzbqGqSp29wmK466RgnaNZsaLw2rxE_JOsV6mQRoHo/w480-h640/IMG_0434.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">That will have to wait until another time! I hope that you are enjoying the days before Christmas!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIRdsXg5bbhmwvxe1l9yCoVeAOlNBFznjyYQy5y_4SKe6yqS1pM5KKpLerfftdz1DJWI6rWZCAu8kkAOsKWjIHCfUd6XZBYcKr0H8HLeWFujE6rxPCEwMqs-WO1brhWQRtp0GFl9yvcsCiwnULyRcZr6wIYveuihjqigAgsKixXUQ6V0lyybZacqLyG96Q/s4032/IMG_0437.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIRdsXg5bbhmwvxe1l9yCoVeAOlNBFznjyYQy5y_4SKe6yqS1pM5KKpLerfftdz1DJWI6rWZCAu8kkAOsKWjIHCfUd6XZBYcKr0H8HLeWFujE6rxPCEwMqs-WO1brhWQRtp0GFl9yvcsCiwnULyRcZr6wIYveuihjqigAgsKixXUQ6V0lyybZacqLyG96Q/w480-h640/IMG_0437.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /></div></div></div>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-74377526628154392872023-12-03T16:45:00.009+00:002023-12-03T16:50:01.492+00:00Bits and pieces! ( Christmas of course!)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFonw6_jqiE_kJDqIUstwg1SlnO5FUW88WN2qDAixGbk4vRf43dHFDWui_IR8VZOwbhVcpEUB-M4iDprek8zqpop4l5q9PTeb7Vslrxwi4EeX5sklw9vd_3aAdN96bVMrzWe-v_QHtNPbfP72eGmQjqFGrKgt88bt5tMo4ruMpz5FfSOYXPynkLjtdT2hP/s1349/IMG_0209.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1349" data-original-width="1329" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFonw6_jqiE_kJDqIUstwg1SlnO5FUW88WN2qDAixGbk4vRf43dHFDWui_IR8VZOwbhVcpEUB-M4iDprek8zqpop4l5q9PTeb7Vslrxwi4EeX5sklw9vd_3aAdN96bVMrzWe-v_QHtNPbfP72eGmQjqFGrKgt88bt5tMo4ruMpz5FfSOYXPynkLjtdT2hP/w630-h640/IMG_0209.jpeg" width="630" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Life seems to have got in the way of blogging, just lately, and as family takes priority with me, I’ve had to </span><span>put the blog, and blogging in general, to one side! </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>However, I did manage a few snaps a few days ago when I changed everything </span><span>on my kitchen dresser…something that I love to do at Christmas. Out comes the, ‘Christmas Village’…the lovely China that I started collecting many years ago when it was first produced. I think that was in 1983 and so it’s 40 years old now!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoKo1u4ji7U1pJZU5POhguxlo_BPj_xMu9AXIzUP3Vl2t9tQslcK2x1k_1ntNDACA0smas51RDlPXvFthE-whf_7QO4kRNothGa9sJazvYOUNU40GFCqnGS087Q5RMg7DPwMKvX-ICA4SWJYdw3tw58J4oQTimkE_rGJL-vMRu5n9PVDqmzpwESPbGgyXh/s1354/IMG_0208.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1328" data-original-width="1354" height="628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoKo1u4ji7U1pJZU5POhguxlo_BPj_xMu9AXIzUP3Vl2t9tQslcK2x1k_1ntNDACA0smas51RDlPXvFthE-whf_7QO4kRNothGa9sJazvYOUNU40GFCqnGS087Q5RMg7DPwMKvX-ICA4SWJYdw3tw58J4oQTimkE_rGJL-vMRu5n9PVDqmzpwESPbGgyXh/w640-h628/IMG_0208.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigSF6OzEPfqMsionsCDnLy2NTyvYkYK8gANTo5jWJXHGpCTUlrxOnzJfw5YyiqfUk68pRYoLT6RepBBSsQd2WmueRBpEqlttTePOKfr44Yj7AlLRhqlv-6WE0liSRE7mGBfz6XUAFAioL1VLnO3uUv-_RcFlFOI5Ico03nBaCRO59YmrT22M35dLJIyQ-R/s1349/IMG_0207.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="1349" height="626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigSF6OzEPfqMsionsCDnLy2NTyvYkYK8gANTo5jWJXHGpCTUlrxOnzJfw5YyiqfUk68pRYoLT6RepBBSsQd2WmueRBpEqlttTePOKfr44Yj7AlLRhqlv-6WE0liSRE7mGBfz6XUAFAioL1VLnO3uUv-_RcFlFOI5Ico03nBaCRO59YmrT22M35dLJIyQ-R/w640-h626/IMG_0207.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meanwhile, other things that I love at Christmas are the Christmas plants. I usually buy a Poinsettia for indoors but this year I thought that I’d go for something different, to ring the changes. I happened to spot this, ‘Ardisia crenata’. It’s tender, so an indoors only plant. Having never owned one, I decided to go ahead and purchase!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsSACxteZtGYR2j4QkConxOWQIc6S_QPEnUWehr4nL6Kgg-wIZ3bOjz11xlSHIEoK7jFIeXqm3-V_EzDPbnF755xhbVPDdc1UyN6F9XK2rxWS-XEk5TAuGaqQHSJk3abCfaEyqhLM7VF0QtIEuMY38O-s8HfbLV6fohhWK8ediUcL0wzU_58xYmhYO_X9a/s700/IMG_0234.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsSACxteZtGYR2j4QkConxOWQIc6S_QPEnUWehr4nL6Kgg-wIZ3bOjz11xlSHIEoK7jFIeXqm3-V_EzDPbnF755xhbVPDdc1UyN6F9XK2rxWS-XEk5TAuGaqQHSJk3abCfaEyqhLM7VF0QtIEuMY38O-s8HfbLV6fohhWK8ediUcL0wzU_58xYmhYO_X9a/w640-h640/IMG_0234.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The RHS says:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(59, 54, 48); color: #3b3630; font-family: Assistant, "Open Sans"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">‘A lovely plant to get you into the Christmas spirit with stunning berries, which emerge yellow but turn a bright red as they mature. They hang in clusters and look great offset by glossy green foliage. Perfect for decorating your Christmas table. What's more, as an added bonus in the summer it has small fragrant flowers that last for many months.’</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(59, 54, 48); color: #3b3630; font-family: Assistant, "Open Sans"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(59, 54, 48); color: #3b3630; font-family: Assistant, "Open Sans"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Another of my favourites is the ‘Gaultheria procumbens’ ( below)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXGVFgeKNtdSCP1c5MLsTUvTIzrJuJPK9g4P5jREZh2JYh9F-LJjHZ-M1JVTaWzE0crtli0PHWLYFXJfQj3UzzbsYuHUYyQsGHU-eaaNVI9wjcsAUUJOdwUAUwLpIguM-bOUIrGUsCxfVLLEDyzgGuqFixhBib_Hd6aHF_M5JGyXtACSdKA00vXQ9i-qlv/s360/IMG_0233.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="360" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXGVFgeKNtdSCP1c5MLsTUvTIzrJuJPK9g4P5jREZh2JYh9F-LJjHZ-M1JVTaWzE0crtli0PHWLYFXJfQj3UzzbsYuHUYyQsGHU-eaaNVI9wjcsAUUJOdwUAUwLpIguM-bOUIrGUsCxfVLLEDyzgGuqFixhBib_Hd6aHF_M5JGyXtACSdKA00vXQ9i-qlv/w640-h640/IMG_0233.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I definitely recommend these! I’ve had mine for a few years and they add a lovely festive feel to my outside pots.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The RHS says:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(59, 54, 48); color: #3b3630; font-family: Assistant, "Open Sans"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">‘The partridge berry or checkerberry is an excellent choice for containers (when potted up using ericaceous compost), but it also makes a handsome ground-covering plant for a shadier spot. It forms a carpet of thick glossy evergreen foliage, which is covered in early summer with white to pale pink flowers. These are followed by aromatic deep red berries (which appear without the need of a pollination partner), and these also put on a good show in autumn.’</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(59, 54, 48); color: #3b3630; font-family: Assistant, "Open Sans"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3b3630; font-family: Assistant, Open Sans;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(59, 54, 48); font-size: x-large;">I happened to spot these, this week, on offer, and so I grabbed three for extra gifts! Too good a bargain to miss!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meanwhile, little trips out and about, have certainly stirred the Christmas Spirit in me…</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5EfQS9Nux1CITnLM67OFN20L18E73k_h1jUDX38Ig4wP119ZLjDzPzbVy7oqFMubPKGeoVcUmiER1s7BAnqttIwxFuahx-sVPfA6j1BrNJYWIO2hNxU3AuHhd9I00xfn2wwYw4hfN030iWjbGT8dxqUmpMByQXfh2K3yPc8cD6my46DhO6GfmcuUWG2BP/s1351/IMG_0186.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1349" data-original-width="1351" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5EfQS9Nux1CITnLM67OFN20L18E73k_h1jUDX38Ig4wP119ZLjDzPzbVy7oqFMubPKGeoVcUmiER1s7BAnqttIwxFuahx-sVPfA6j1BrNJYWIO2hNxU3AuHhd9I00xfn2wwYw4hfN030iWjbGT8dxqUmpMByQXfh2K3yPc8cD6my46DhO6GfmcuUWG2BP/w640-h640/IMG_0186.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And before I forget, I finally decided on my four, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">‘ New Yorker’ posters!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsLpztOZNssWfh890VTlGiPteo5FjZlg27BvdquspP9qfqCaU255PkA-CfQAANuxDJ9QX1P_0v71eLQKk5MEvGzxQRaXz64YEg5hZC6D2skXHDt7QkfXOVoEILzjGNCDPqndGHKxocOVVFkX_5LQ3xF29yijVndwSgfovN8ZJjr55zdjUA2VsagaATyQv0/s1694/IMG_0203.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1694" data-original-width="1150" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsLpztOZNssWfh890VTlGiPteo5FjZlg27BvdquspP9qfqCaU255PkA-CfQAANuxDJ9QX1P_0v71eLQKk5MEvGzxQRaXz64YEg5hZC6D2skXHDt7QkfXOVoEILzjGNCDPqndGHKxocOVVFkX_5LQ3xF29yijVndwSgfovN8ZJjr55zdjUA2VsagaATyQv0/w434-h640/IMG_0203.jpeg" width="434" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I just had to choose this one, above!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">‘Santa Claus, give a gift’ from The New Yorker, 1937.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And this one, below, of the music hall was so appealing to me; it’s a newer one from The New Yorker,1988.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpHOY9lF-ZsLAY9-UsE6cdTTZMS1E7_QoWlPTQH5RjV-GpgrbuIOnKrchkwJ5EJvz6VjU1zB-3g79VknZ8QhZT-V4aXwG8xlSteZeJ3dZbM7KvI51F-L7xsRvj0zQHTSbbhFtxBOeOQWy4LYkNYxvJsbV6USaY2aXGLPS3V7s98zmY-AGsCo06zDgo3Sy0/s1364/IMG_0201.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="958" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpHOY9lF-ZsLAY9-UsE6cdTTZMS1E7_QoWlPTQH5RjV-GpgrbuIOnKrchkwJ5EJvz6VjU1zB-3g79VknZ8QhZT-V4aXwG8xlSteZeJ3dZbM7KvI51F-L7xsRvj0zQHTSbbhFtxBOeOQWy4LYkNYxvJsbV6USaY2aXGLPS3V7s98zmY-AGsCo06zDgo3Sy0/w450-h640/IMG_0201.jpeg" width="450" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Next, was this one of the Outdoor Art Festival, from The New Yorker 1959: </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0oCoQaNvwVIRf8s7NAD0bSM3jM_wpTKqW8OgBCvqVOpJlXVo8AVg-GzliHgNb1Urv6_3v3hPl5HXv-8Si-w1LukJ9cgxt1uVnVYiafSePeRRJZHiUX-0PkukrosVDqR1O6E0VlvJhFu4oRDCfTTVSi4lxDXrhc70BOLNAhBBfPjyHJSSqxChB_sWUFQrE/s1559/IMG_0200.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1559" data-original-width="1072" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0oCoQaNvwVIRf8s7NAD0bSM3jM_wpTKqW8OgBCvqVOpJlXVo8AVg-GzliHgNb1Urv6_3v3hPl5HXv-8Si-w1LukJ9cgxt1uVnVYiafSePeRRJZHiUX-0PkukrosVDqR1O6E0VlvJhFu4oRDCfTTVSi4lxDXrhc70BOLNAhBBfPjyHJSSqxChB_sWUFQrE/w440-h640/IMG_0200.jpeg" width="440" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>I had to choose a garden themed poster and so this one, from The New Yorker 1977, fell into my basket:</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBFoLu3kBkSWiI_4mH59ZpmGZ0goui_516PnIoNAJjOtwNKS0HXeRq0Hdfi2sTuc0ARUwwTrwyHCaxjnE4nZlmtbihi3Q9u-jri5D2bAIQE_PTfacATcE7RqeaPQjXF4C0VVOywr29OMjwQ2iE2PM6GfCmL-eCRD8lTMbwnkLxadxTpc0dYh8C0UtgTv7C/s1519/IMG_0202.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1519" data-original-width="1059" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBFoLu3kBkSWiI_4mH59ZpmGZ0goui_516PnIoNAJjOtwNKS0HXeRq0Hdfi2sTuc0ARUwwTrwyHCaxjnE4nZlmtbihi3Q9u-jri5D2bAIQE_PTfacATcE7RqeaPQjXF4C0VVOywr29OMjwQ2iE2PM6GfCmL-eCRD8lTMbwnkLxadxTpc0dYh8C0UtgTv7C/w446-h640/IMG_0202.jpeg" width="446" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That wasn’t the easiest decision because there are too many from which to choose!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And finally, there’s my Christmas tree!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL398tffi6BT5fZDKKyfAeFwNpXIdCMucYGlvaL3uzomRevvZjAjsfBYdh-UnAKdBvAz3SbSmgYP9hjhxcvyQmvKO1sPJAd5gOe6jS3MxNGECE-zuoQKdg_D8Zyp4Ht7WdIBXb2yQfkIxpzx3HiEfR4MZWn2q3KX4YY_amI4AttmldKcrBu9sURGuoIOIi/s4032/IMG_0248.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL398tffi6BT5fZDKKyfAeFwNpXIdCMucYGlvaL3uzomRevvZjAjsfBYdh-UnAKdBvAz3SbSmgYP9hjhxcvyQmvKO1sPJAd5gOe6jS3MxNGECE-zuoQKdg_D8Zyp4Ht7WdIBXb2yQfkIxpzx3HiEfR4MZWn2q3KX4YY_amI4AttmldKcrBu9sURGuoIOIi/w480-h640/IMG_0248.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Last Christmas, I made a bit of a mistake when I bought a new Christmas tree…which was slightly too big for our smaller lounge!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And so when my daughter mentioned that they were looking for a new Christmas tree, I enquired as to what size, and luckily for me (and for her family), mine was ideal for their needs. That sorted and transported to its new abode, I soon found a new tree for our lounge.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYJp-lGO4tDVMff1YOny648Fwa6zSyyzn3X64Kd41KIwSzRIr74n9V3UhI6QVjKwFsL6T2Q64R-vAMMx15AOqUwPNCq4R3-O8TALFeo6QsJ7s8_RPMAUQOQfDDlbJg5kyj578ai1-XrRbT2GO-jfFiylPLrjX2TxsDUMykUXCfavitNdk1TGnauPhopW1e/s4032/IMG_0247.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYJp-lGO4tDVMff1YOny648Fwa6zSyyzn3X64Kd41KIwSzRIr74n9V3UhI6QVjKwFsL6T2Q64R-vAMMx15AOqUwPNCq4R3-O8TALFeo6QsJ7s8_RPMAUQOQfDDlbJg5kyj578ai1-XrRbT2GO-jfFiylPLrjX2TxsDUMykUXCfavitNdk1TGnauPhopW1e/w480-h640/IMG_0247.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I love an old fashioned, traditional tree. I’m not one for colour co-ordinating or gimmicks. What goes on my tree is a mixture of vintage baubles from the 1950s and a few more modern decorations plus anything that I’ve made in the past…such as these little choir boys, of which I once made many for a school, Christmas fair, when my children were little!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv4jsi5RJZs6qCGKTG1ZIsK0LKr50xuF-ak1Z-RZnuXTG-Q0u3CsTEGC9DbwGUGgNEVOcnUSfdkzG-1rtQrobZN45zKlSTR9VeRC9fhZlMdx9ZLA3m0Xv5WSuQMcGOxXQ0OHzhOZ9ga32Lk3IalIT-YgJGgZqY5emo5yWkESv6vBSZLFkwuIRkQgEHXNmo/s4032/IMG_0251.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv4jsi5RJZs6qCGKTG1ZIsK0LKr50xuF-ak1Z-RZnuXTG-Q0u3CsTEGC9DbwGUGgNEVOcnUSfdkzG-1rtQrobZN45zKlSTR9VeRC9fhZlMdx9ZLA3m0Xv5WSuQMcGOxXQ0OHzhOZ9ga32Lk3IalIT-YgJGgZqY5emo5yWkESv6vBSZLFkwuIRkQgEHXNmo/w480-h640/IMG_0251.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_kG39wKWbYptcfRbYuizhomKdaSDt8ArLqjo_78TbQahg-nbVyespLIzUtx8A0OORVZ1F1E2bp_L_pJ9GCYHSCip8uN1tvJgYnIf3HnAN_Glfj2_XKxRfYpjfUvJ0LhEbTTnoqoCc2QIfY9TY0_Fltwm6Brj6S-SXQeQB6X90k3pj5ORAgLa9lkn5fHC/s4032/IMG_0249.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_kG39wKWbYptcfRbYuizhomKdaSDt8ArLqjo_78TbQahg-nbVyespLIzUtx8A0OORVZ1F1E2bp_L_pJ9GCYHSCip8uN1tvJgYnIf3HnAN_Glfj2_XKxRfYpjfUvJ0LhEbTTnoqoCc2QIfY9TY0_Fltwm6Brj6S-SXQeQB6X90k3pj5ORAgLa9lkn5fHC/w480-h640/IMG_0249.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_po5ELRyxH4hHQQ5CwtVWsn1hfST1DbBDkfsC3wKRzwCAHKWQAoaaRh8VVdJpn_WN1T3e1d0EQboWsEdhBz477s8Ph6YskbwOLMJ0MnjfamUwyRD_9AVZCOWktvuRM7579N4lyahRrUQuwZkqfNcPcpd_Vjm_WMytGEX_KQjVnWESxVLZv3wMv91VqfpG/s4032/IMG_0250.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_po5ELRyxH4hHQQ5CwtVWsn1hfST1DbBDkfsC3wKRzwCAHKWQAoaaRh8VVdJpn_WN1T3e1d0EQboWsEdhBz477s8Ph6YskbwOLMJ0MnjfamUwyRD_9AVZCOWktvuRM7579N4lyahRrUQuwZkqfNcPcpd_Vjm_WMytGEX_KQjVnWESxVLZv3wMv91VqfpG/w480-h640/IMG_0250.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKpxL4CcHbw7AaOEOnE3YrmmkP89ukIUcQfWIruUt4jheY8LyPRwllnFeovw6ELZsK4lOHLwM6lIrldR6HctllEbykssbQDTA9gDxy7wxhITMLhzq5z5VQcr11vqko9hLniJfQJEDKuW5sHihUwVNueEi7AG2E7hWHNoChFi2u4Ucm4Ej1v5uGG8XmWykU/s4032/IMG_0252.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKpxL4CcHbw7AaOEOnE3YrmmkP89ukIUcQfWIruUt4jheY8LyPRwllnFeovw6ELZsK4lOHLwM6lIrldR6HctllEbykssbQDTA9gDxy7wxhITMLhzq5z5VQcr11vqko9hLniJfQJEDKuW5sHihUwVNueEi7AG2E7hWHNoChFi2u4Ucm4Ej1v5uGG8XmWykU/w480-h640/IMG_0252.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZfyiktqVNJgxj0Fhxx6Spt1vZKjre4NLdklYvY6H3yQcF8O6n0NrIojSXnL0-L7Fbyn1OYm1o-rfuF5EruQM5Al2pBSESCY3SIneJVBRxNNDWOkxYf9bUYypcnY2O9PTS_UQIywbKV4gz6dq2m2N8kvvNwlQesCkfivfwW0P-OmbyXYW_aml58JJqLIJt/s4032/IMG_0253.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZfyiktqVNJgxj0Fhxx6Spt1vZKjre4NLdklYvY6H3yQcF8O6n0NrIojSXnL0-L7Fbyn1OYm1o-rfuF5EruQM5Al2pBSESCY3SIneJVBRxNNDWOkxYf9bUYypcnY2O9PTS_UQIywbKV4gz6dq2m2N8kvvNwlQesCkfivfwW0P-OmbyXYW_aml58JJqLIJt/w480-h640/IMG_0253.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So that’s Christmas so far! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I hope that your festive preparations are going well too! 🌲🧑🎄 🌲</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-68794472247622455542023-11-17T21:04:00.001+00:002023-11-17T21:04:32.703+00:00The New Yorker!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">I really love ‘The New Yorker’ !</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYNSHErxwmntkUkFD3uVw7C5a8E0MIp4koHgsuj8lTf-OTCljTOfcBumnCsxeaP3A0bc3D1b1yKobSIQmdXm0lFMMLbyYRCjHl7o0NyIiqtVvj-KtQmP3sLkgQhQtlB-iVFHU3llKvi9F_okxrLWNz5GYcZ4JHDGa5ukOjBGNiSOlLzfIfQ_Z5nZsJP4TR/s1195/IMG_0185.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1195" data-original-width="816" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYNSHErxwmntkUkFD3uVw7C5a8E0MIp4koHgsuj8lTf-OTCljTOfcBumnCsxeaP3A0bc3D1b1yKobSIQmdXm0lFMMLbyYRCjHl7o0NyIiqtVvj-KtQmP3sLkgQhQtlB-iVFHU3llKvi9F_okxrLWNz5GYcZ4JHDGa5ukOjBGNiSOlLzfIfQ_Z5nZsJP4TR/w438-h640/IMG_0185.jpeg" width="438" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #38761d; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #38761d; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">‘The New Yorker’ magazine was first published on February 21st 1925. Below is the cover of the first issue, depicting Eustace Tilley, the mascot of the magazine.</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1S0F4AYgVA8DbAZfg6nSOisgxKpFSwJkysKYrmkVsC-pp6rDILz3krTxwjmwW1MAHvA0c6YTcsp7Q3l8C4OWSYnUzTwqoPubt2eY0dr6wpRBCsnhmPfs0rTQ-sn0W1lYcoOdgdTzNli8RYh73Q4_GALS6ulYHDbC_oMwOEn1zQBfVzdCCx_I42m_bNGnE/s461/IMG_0181.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1S0F4AYgVA8DbAZfg6nSOisgxKpFSwJkysKYrmkVsC-pp6rDILz3krTxwjmwW1MAHvA0c6YTcsp7Q3l8C4OWSYnUzTwqoPubt2eY0dr6wpRBCsnhmPfs0rTQ-sn0W1lYcoOdgdTzNli8RYh73Q4_GALS6ulYHDbC_oMwOEn1zQBfVzdCCx_I42m_bNGnE/s461/IMG_0181.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="300" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1S0F4AYgVA8DbAZfg6nSOisgxKpFSwJkysKYrmkVsC-pp6rDILz3krTxwjmwW1MAHvA0c6YTcsp7Q3l8C4OWSYnUzTwqoPubt2eY0dr6wpRBCsnhmPfs0rTQ-sn0W1lYcoOdgdTzNli8RYh73Q4_GALS6ulYHDbC_oMwOEn1zQBfVzdCCx_I42m_bNGnE/s600/IMG_0181.webp" /></a><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #38761d;">Founded by Harold W. Ross, ‘The New Yorker’ is an American weekly magazine, famous for its variety of literature and humour. Initially, its focus was New York’s amusements, social and cultural life, but as time passed, it acquired a broader scope, encompassing literature, current affairs, short fiction, essays, comic drawings, </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #38761d;">cinema, theatre and book reviews and other arts…and many other topics! It has always appealed to a sophisticated, well educated audience!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9FZYhhNsI4ga_T-N2qq4UUqoGgfEDbq17KvXpD5k_9CBPM6byJ82UkwRY-m6yeENthAzCgPCR-ePOoVMQMsxxmGdNm5M7-9NBV4txSDDGjugeTQTWJj3lMblinq6sTtvYaIn1wrEM2lIySXLTLdnOcmSPJIo3PhcR3hQzlTXSKo0xCCgLr-zAAQcRted3/s1125/IMG_0165.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="878" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9FZYhhNsI4ga_T-N2qq4UUqoGgfEDbq17KvXpD5k_9CBPM6byJ82UkwRY-m6yeENthAzCgPCR-ePOoVMQMsxxmGdNm5M7-9NBV4txSDDGjugeTQTWJj3lMblinq6sTtvYaIn1wrEM2lIySXLTLdnOcmSPJIo3PhcR3hQzlTXSKo0xCCgLr-zAAQcRted3/w500-h640/IMG_0165.jpeg" width="500" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: x-large;"> I came across ‘The New Yorker’ around 15 years ago, when I purchased this book, above. It’s a fab book which I love to dip into at Christmas…a proper coffee table book, designed to get you well and truly into the Christmas Spirit!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">But that’s not all! </span></span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: x-large;">Posters! </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: x-large;">Unbeknown to me, a few years ago, my son had also discovered ‘The New Yorker’, and he had purchased 4 posters; he keeps these in one frame and then he changes them every so often.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvEzkRV91tfFCLS5EyF6wVC7dp2-7jvF1AWSChNBQo8ID53CV2hgmgDdX2elulCKHWc_iYvxpCiaU5oaq07D0hlbQUNNd3N1gKLEfEfnFI0pgq_LgfNPxeSlbhlbhofk_n_EMhDDozz8o7sak89InObA7d43Ygs61hyoEbkr6j6YvW-5onZuAnjUNUxOoW/s1239/IMG_0179.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1239" data-original-width="831" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvEzkRV91tfFCLS5EyF6wVC7dp2-7jvF1AWSChNBQo8ID53CV2hgmgDdX2elulCKHWc_iYvxpCiaU5oaq07D0hlbQUNNd3N1gKLEfEfnFI0pgq_LgfNPxeSlbhlbhofk_n_EMhDDozz8o7sak89InObA7d43Ygs61hyoEbkr6j6YvW-5onZuAnjUNUxOoW/w430-h640/IMG_0179.jpeg" width="430" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">There are, indeed, a wonderful range of posters that can be purchased! And so when my other half asked what I would like for Christmas, I thought, ‘I know!’ </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: x-large;">Thus, right now, I’m browsing one or two sites that have the most amazing selection of ‘New Yorker’ posters!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">What a dilemma..or is it dilemna?</span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #38761d;"> ( This is often a discussion in our house!)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Here are just a few:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_gBOLfi2cJQ5HcRPGofKfBd6oomZ1IMuwq2vTaMhjdpR1emZahengGd3fSm19GGvZiuzhcWlp-iRj4wsrb3X2JEKIlJ-TjMciO0K0menhyRkc7D1ujPzDBO08OqbH9Bhs1bU0oaelB4I-9aPef5dyrr1TjX3iG7z6WOL1tZaLqDNJW6-sbMcVLjQH5F1n/s1191/IMG_0176.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> I love the variety as well as the history!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1S0F4AYgVA8DbAZfg6nSOisgxKpFSwJkysKYrmkVsC-pp6rDILz3krTxwjmwW1MAHvA0c6YTcsp7Q3l8C4OWSYnUzTwqoPubt2eY0dr6wpRBCsnhmPfs0rTQ-sn0W1lYcoOdgdTzNli8RYh73Q4_GALS6ulYHDbC_oMwOEn1zQBfVzdCCx_I42m_bNGnE/s461/IMG_0181.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-11307699641968678802023-11-05T12:28:00.006+00:002023-11-05T12:32:24.548+00:00Tagging along…<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC_MG3hgakXUZxsTa2RpgZ9sqQMVGy5BhA-kBHIGoVIioZAcF5lCHCcedN0DVAfHKetRDZ3pqgm2a-Q_5yUt_ZWfP7mIDx79ZJmsj3SCuiscsyG6-jYkS8fY88_tbkOjj9K7yqpqVx8qHBTnWEK-CLaWUp-V8k4qmoz1rS38W0Z72ZbtKD-dn0Wy1MW304/s2445/IMG_0109.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2339" data-original-width="2445" height="612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC_MG3hgakXUZxsTa2RpgZ9sqQMVGy5BhA-kBHIGoVIioZAcF5lCHCcedN0DVAfHKetRDZ3pqgm2a-Q_5yUt_ZWfP7mIDx79ZJmsj3SCuiscsyG6-jYkS8fY88_tbkOjj9K7yqpqVx8qHBTnWEK-CLaWUp-V8k4qmoz1rS38W0Z72ZbtKD-dn0Wy1MW304/w640-h612/IMG_0109.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>When I was doing the vintage fairs, quite a while ago, especially when the Christmas fairs were held, the </span><span>halls were quite a sight! </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Reds, greens and golds, were the dominant colours and everything was so bright, colourful, </span><span>enticing and inspiring, shouting out, ‘Buy me!’ </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27catbVnh3wbhK-3GknHsYTucy4thju-ZjjBRE0jKWBwkV-W_8yi9X1WWlID16C9ETIbEdZI9y1gbBWSxbzQAwJKuXUk4FYV2EQ0CW9ivhzczsvzQfRvGdrbs_8F6leAtyTF49syVMD6RK1XiJsUdgF9HNQEgk00Ib03qmYbSiF_d4dq4_crBL7qsljvD/s1733/IMG_0089.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1733" data-original-width="1569" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27catbVnh3wbhK-3GknHsYTucy4thju-ZjjBRE0jKWBwkV-W_8yi9X1WWlID16C9ETIbEdZI9y1gbBWSxbzQAwJKuXUk4FYV2EQ0CW9ivhzczsvzQfRvGdrbs_8F6leAtyTF49syVMD6RK1XiJsUdgF9HNQEgk00Ib03qmYbSiF_d4dq4_crBL7qsljvD/w580-h640/IMG_0089.jpeg" width="580" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I loved doing those fairs and I’d take along my offerings and try to display them to show off their very best side!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwDS7aC1oirRjntGFvMGa1pTIp_z-y8eXRDkBLnbbOsiMrbdqzWYcL9Ep-tMZIzFwGJlbocuGIPoIID6eAfvXwOuGLuRKM0jmtcNxFk0-OaJuc6SxeWmsv4tmM53Uf6MMGBxJknYWRjMPYgia-L89NnPhhz6aerU0z75_Z84lbOzJ_2EN593-bCOgyUX6N/s2411/IMG_0093.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2411" data-original-width="2049" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwDS7aC1oirRjntGFvMGa1pTIp_z-y8eXRDkBLnbbOsiMrbdqzWYcL9Ep-tMZIzFwGJlbocuGIPoIID6eAfvXwOuGLuRKM0jmtcNxFk0-OaJuc6SxeWmsv4tmM53Uf6MMGBxJknYWRjMPYgia-L89NnPhhz6aerU0z75_Z84lbOzJ_2EN593-bCOgyUX6N/w544-h640/IMG_0093.jpeg" width="544" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And as well as my vintage fabrics, I sold loads of these Christmas themed tags.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSk9RC68TXlSQsSlluZofmAjUdpajIDFr8cI5MaqzMJoeHKiQqH14U692jfMffh0YTiBTfuNH5CzRED9eugyqLOhm4vRlLGbxdZDJ8HuvDuvJP4Ic9sumR7igYX28RJ5QHNJjXCbEPQ6JFmNHV4Dp9Y9j5Ss5PB7oosXEmBa0SqWREB-gSFI0iJ6N5l1-n/s2351/IMG_0101.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2319" data-original-width="2351" height="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSk9RC68TXlSQsSlluZofmAjUdpajIDFr8cI5MaqzMJoeHKiQqH14U692jfMffh0YTiBTfuNH5CzRED9eugyqLOhm4vRlLGbxdZDJ8HuvDuvJP4Ic9sumR7igYX28RJ5QHNJjXCbEPQ6JFmNHV4Dp9Y9j5Ss5PB7oosXEmBa0SqWREB-gSFI0iJ6N5l1-n/w640-h632/IMG_0101.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I only have 13 remaining and so recently, I decided to team them with some vintage fabrics with a few modern fabrics added to the mix.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I also think that they make lovely gifts for a crafter!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBlZTODf5ONFvVXzGuB4EKdetlknmpjndUHO2EnWI6pE8kqMlD3VuJOYoUp1CikQB8QP-Aj27jG7mRkd4N7azs9HK05nq8QTctN4LGS23RpkipGUWpuyODg_DffEXRG8LTHGxNMFUcNiHoz7g6N-g4gwSPysGyFCuzilQ5gmrbIg7Vwa9L_jWXfpFsJk4u/s2200/IMG_0098.jpeg"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="2001" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBlZTODf5ONFvVXzGuB4EKdetlknmpjndUHO2EnWI6pE8kqMlD3VuJOYoUp1CikQB8QP-Aj27jG7mRkd4N7azs9HK05nq8QTctN4LGS23RpkipGUWpuyODg_DffEXRG8LTHGxNMFUcNiHoz7g6N-g4gwSPysGyFCuzilQ5gmrbIg7Vwa9L_jWXfpFsJk4u/w582-h640/IMG_0098.jpeg" width="582" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>And not only that, quite often I’ll leave something on my work desk for ages, </span><span>just because I find it so inspiring. And quite often it’s almost too good to want to take apart and use!</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEv9XugrVijlpzAEpPVeXxfePOaXPK4MJvDMsmrESaT1icgQyYUdIgI_NQ9FwJR1blmpEeyQgZverTx0vUW_dT2ZAmXorehmAykAbB1SmxLfRi8GYFHCtmE0DnGq8dbPLHPN5ClB-sLjti89QLmQgL25_JicunEbWsUtCoFlP3vWUQ8z1o9jCYMmT3Dbn_/s2251/IMG_0100.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2251" data-original-width="2114" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEv9XugrVijlpzAEpPVeXxfePOaXPK4MJvDMsmrESaT1icgQyYUdIgI_NQ9FwJR1blmpEeyQgZverTx0vUW_dT2ZAmXorehmAykAbB1SmxLfRi8GYFHCtmE0DnGq8dbPLHPN5ClB-sLjti89QLmQgL25_JicunEbWsUtCoFlP3vWUQ8z1o9jCYMmT3Dbn_/w602-h640/IMG_0100.jpeg" width="602" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So what do you get in these delightful packs?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You get:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">* A lovely tag with a selection of 4 vintage trims…according to the photo. Approx one yard of each trim.</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">* A fat quarter of modern, cotton fabric as on the left of the photo, measuring approx 22 x 18 ins.</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">* 8 small pieces of vintage and modern fabrics. These measure 4 ins x 4 ins or </span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;"><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">slightly smaller. </span></div></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHlsIZ1BbDbQhRl1-O5CxDw8TLcsamnfSn0FqDKvRcU0_u-xI70FuVOSPe7H8k3X_J38VlLD3sTKDiG_AxSm5UTOf1wwET8trFDuMFnC05Xydrb1g88vOsBI596IFs6U0G31LPpWYKp-BMOIVwMWQihD5uN7ckjuHKfobxsqzSmeMWdCjctJl3LAXxrANK/s2730/IMG_0116.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2383" data-original-width="2730" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHlsIZ1BbDbQhRl1-O5CxDw8TLcsamnfSn0FqDKvRcU0_u-xI70FuVOSPe7H8k3X_J38VlLD3sTKDiG_AxSm5UTOf1wwET8trFDuMFnC05Xydrb1g88vOsBI596IFs6U0G31LPpWYKp-BMOIVwMWQihD5uN7ckjuHKfobxsqzSmeMWdCjctJl3LAXxrANK/w640-h558/IMG_0116.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And as with all of my eBay sales, I always put in a little something ‘ extra’ as a surprise, thank you! 😁</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7KVXt5IQTpkcdEDtNIw9zpaM1lkScxdei0oCZN2R6lAGGYhh3D_e5i6NxBrQsLF1X_xV1uysLUWSUQCkvijsIhrMzpX7LYm_s6kcLn4y0_jXrsxcbKbLhv4knyPbABP25nxVOgk244Z5KyqZbtDIjkNbS7lnPGEWtd5-RCel5VEoCE63clCJy0Zt9lhXq/s2541/IMG_0120.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2541" data-original-width="2387" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7KVXt5IQTpkcdEDtNIw9zpaM1lkScxdei0oCZN2R6lAGGYhh3D_e5i6NxBrQsLF1X_xV1uysLUWSUQCkvijsIhrMzpX7LYm_s6kcLn4y0_jXrsxcbKbLhv4knyPbABP25nxVOgk244Z5KyqZbtDIjkNbS7lnPGEWtd5-RCel5VEoCE63clCJy0Zt9lhXq/w602-h640/IMG_0120.jpeg" width="602" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Anyway…I’ve had fun putting these together in the hope that someone might love them as much as I do!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Tx8HPncV0QgMvBmB6Kn4iizEIjdFyqDY81yzKHk2cVE0qrEzDpUMpGHHU2fu7UtTcBRzv4G-Bi3c5hqDCGLIsLMOAlniMGJFwhqMzslOjVMl6t89cVMebU3rgq3ra5sEn5Cwv3LnMEdBvrLbozKiM8Qur8FjVC5_Y5HbIYREcbJ1TMXvECRi7ij0Jomi/s2298/IMG_0123.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk8b7Xqpa9iatB9XiT27xY8lPrzEupZh8VIZihOfXAv8S_TQqNfx-CKwBVZ6khgjS5pQnlk0Q0Dar-n3knsWiIGV2jQhFzHH3Y-IyDEgaOVxF-1z-ekWQe6wmeXY36AwIaUKpyugojEWtJerwN2y8X56vibhRbfoXa6cqo8VVwwV_kpBMNgsTtlR-YKD4z/s4032/IMG_0272.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk8b7Xqpa9iatB9XiT27xY8lPrzEupZh8VIZihOfXAv8S_TQqNfx-CKwBVZ6khgjS5pQnlk0Q0Dar-n3knsWiIGV2jQhFzHH3Y-IyDEgaOVxF-1z-ekWQe6wmeXY36AwIaUKpyugojEWtJerwN2y8X56vibhRbfoXa6cqo8VVwwV_kpBMNgsTtlR-YKD4z/w640-h480/IMG_0272.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I don’t really like to think about Christmas until my son’s birthday, in mid November, is over and done with! However, he invited me to go out for coffee today, along with his little boy, (who is 2 and a half years old), and Christmas immediately greeted us as we entered the building!</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgvYo_n_k0GKJHYiOItmWmyGW5YMjXonj_XN6X-sD9eo8xjtTK1-GXPcTi16oCpIcYI7ItbU1kyN20eyt9q4Fyq9gZSOe3jZQ0n6StUoorZxCRh_vcUhyphenhyphencJfkyytgKr4qEoG9Rvl79_-GwWgGHZnLsuKYlUc0IXKIGk3VGmBCyGPoyXWi0ABf0p0E13Wtb/s4032/IMG_0263.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgvYo_n_k0GKJHYiOItmWmyGW5YMjXonj_XN6X-sD9eo8xjtTK1-GXPcTi16oCpIcYI7ItbU1kyN20eyt9q4Fyq9gZSOe3jZQ0n6StUoorZxCRh_vcUhyphenhyphencJfkyytgKr4qEoG9Rvl79_-GwWgGHZnLsuKYlUc0IXKIGk3VGmBCyGPoyXWi0ABf0p0E13Wtb/w480-h640/IMG_0263.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is a place called ‘Jack’s Patch’, which is now part of the Otter Nurseries group. And I have to say that it has really improved since being taken over. </span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHwqgzsLI_mpyjkShhvisTfdhZvJBSu7-OpCZgGcb3gy57BmZusxkIv61qNaFmejZwf0faKFSJ9qtBz29hRTa1rqW5MDvOAMG98kuU9JCZvU5PqFTpuyj6Counac1JvB1gU5xZ8LpTYEZggVBazRrmvCChRNk4KkSo0E3HVRU0r-4FQiKcuTzQv0cbxA6S/s4032/IMG_0277.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHwqgzsLI_mpyjkShhvisTfdhZvJBSu7-OpCZgGcb3gy57BmZusxkIv61qNaFmejZwf0faKFSJ9qtBz29hRTa1rqW5MDvOAMG98kuU9JCZvU5PqFTpuyj6Counac1JvB1gU5xZ8LpTYEZggVBazRrmvCChRNk4KkSo0E3HVRU0r-4FQiKcuTzQv0cbxA6S/w640-h480/IMG_0277.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">After coffee and a long natter, putting the world to rights, we had a pleasant wander.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVYbH9JsYyZxyKTZLJXH_YTOe5BNMh2_1cpQQaCcjebgjl5ibF1yBG1ljh02H9Josm5KRv04UDR4GarhvDrCmXNsyyQAbI2-i9MzED4YXfF4ZGAeW8Zhqm3lwTRZtITwOYLihq-1UMfGp544NeYiKh4rWZ8Qu1nYVkEC-3iaDL-zoLwDQGKrKIQkGLpgN1/s4032/IMG_0276.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVYbH9JsYyZxyKTZLJXH_YTOe5BNMh2_1cpQQaCcjebgjl5ibF1yBG1ljh02H9Josm5KRv04UDR4GarhvDrCmXNsyyQAbI2-i9MzED4YXfF4ZGAeW8Zhqm3lwTRZtITwOYLihq-1UMfGp544NeYiKh4rWZ8Qu1nYVkEC-3iaDL-zoLwDQGKrKIQkGLpgN1/w480-h640/IMG_0276.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3372" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6m1BByjxYRLb_pwXuVxxhiFHEfNVWkk58MlddG2ZlH_IVGWMgWD9i8Yyx-7_Y6MPd6fYGu7jSTeqIumhOZV50m7kNd80A1VZNFDUPii-OiBV-FzPCzMP8i9rf7Dwb5Oxbnu_83H_phyANHm61oo5Lu3TqL2Rf66FJ__WJmRyNbeb-XGTnEWSqFd8p3lhN/w574-h640/IMG_0261.jpeg" width="574" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">And finally, these slate signs and coasters caught my eye…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj29YTkVcTkt2_VjCe_kzALAcMP5MtBPbde913nVBSyywAcvATtiWB8imZ1dzn4qc53QoPumUrh1uZ5-DcdtCv5vuVRwCgtlhB9IAaH55P2ZiNmwQNp7QjsSi8w6LwspfeUSn1x7SpC-3BKADi4KPdHVBCbKcrpwUssXTP7qjhPYzrIHoPT_G8-Oxzo8Bn0/s4032/IMG_0260.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj29YTkVcTkt2_VjCe_kzALAcMP5MtBPbde913nVBSyywAcvATtiWB8imZ1dzn4qc53QoPumUrh1uZ5-DcdtCv5vuVRwCgtlhB9IAaH55P2ZiNmwQNp7QjsSi8w6LwspfeUSn1x7SpC-3BKADi4KPdHVBCbKcrpwUssXTP7qjhPYzrIHoPT_G8-Oxzo8Bn0/w640-h480/IMG_0260.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p></div></div>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-31222404201983983392023-10-25T15:08:00.002+01:002023-10-25T15:09:13.413+01:00Waffling!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Should I do some scrapbooking? Should I start on Christmas? I decided that I’d start on the latter…and make some simple Christmas cards.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">And then I thought I’d browse through the Christmas fabric, online, completely forgetting that I actually sell fabric! I mean, how daft is that? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Next…blank cards and envelopes…must find some of those…uh oh…completely forgetting that I had enough in my room to make some simple cards. </span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQGN1oiV48-y36bet8KC1z_lSuGHEnVzxWyt06YIo7M5KktXBgNjnJJMp7YVjnL8q3TgXy0rjIgSfHFEs_24lqH0jnH6p_uSR8VAywPXQ8g5JKy_04Ngav9x19bsYGHaQfX2qN4Jba5CtGujqLEygtGwkL4uGjo7gXZQRRVpzIIh9VuFG78JJyjBpyJn-r/s4032/IMG_0244.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQGN1oiV48-y36bet8KC1z_lSuGHEnVzxWyt06YIo7M5KktXBgNjnJJMp7YVjnL8q3TgXy0rjIgSfHFEs_24lqH0jnH6p_uSR8VAywPXQ8g5JKy_04Ngav9x19bsYGHaQfX2qN4Jba5CtGujqLEygtGwkL4uGjo7gXZQRRVpzIIh9VuFG78JJyjBpyJn-r/w640-h480/IMG_0244.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Anyway, I pulled myself together, came to my senses and started to gather a few bits and pieces. And then I also remembered that last year I treated myself to some lovely papers from Cambridge Imprint. Whether I’d use them, I couldn’t decide… but they sure do inspire!</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0znj853AXi-9ytiZVe87j_ETPUUnCNVoGuLIx5VWjnnz7aAt4TKKm1HJMy7HWiYh8juQ3iSiVOVJ4LK-_yRu0yMYSMcDnkChkbdw9xOXHliuJFcookyRBpiqZS0p-EOkl83mdhaBsK6kLmX2vk9jKMEONInYf62Qty37Op2v8xcD0gj_TZf_8w7em1ach/s4032/IMG_0245.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0znj853AXi-9ytiZVe87j_ETPUUnCNVoGuLIx5VWjnnz7aAt4TKKm1HJMy7HWiYh8juQ3iSiVOVJ4LK-_yRu0yMYSMcDnkChkbdw9xOXHliuJFcookyRBpiqZS0p-EOkl83mdhaBsK6kLmX2vk9jKMEONInYf62Qty37Op2v8xcD0gj_TZf_8w7em1ach/w640-h480/IMG_0245.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg52Fh6AGCBV9jxYnC_yigaZUTd9XytlEBP8vTuAlbIT_Z0tmBVI9yx3rWsRBDmW4sivGRWft3ex5cwUCoN6ByDZahONNHYjQm_q7_DP6AjcUQIm-TTWn4WVepZXe_aNBSTek4MB1QwX8741lEf9Q1u2SgvWdzQ8gqFR9I8t3eMGwnpLfuPMymzqYvSFhR9/s4032/IMG_0246.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg52Fh6AGCBV9jxYnC_yigaZUTd9XytlEBP8vTuAlbIT_Z0tmBVI9yx3rWsRBDmW4sivGRWft3ex5cwUCoN6ByDZahONNHYjQm_q7_DP6AjcUQIm-TTWn4WVepZXe_aNBSTek4MB1QwX8741lEf9Q1u2SgvWdzQ8gqFR9I8t3eMGwnpLfuPMymzqYvSFhR9/w640-h480/IMG_0246.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPz9afVbWlErA7PhXfq8w-bxZ3znRpP_MSDETxPj1oox7qcpXb122jQy5WOX1dkUYdTJou56JpANWVvsNjHdh8L_yYYsy_LimNB9whuQt0984FQaBMAYe1dz01xVQCb2jUsXzTC4q5h0TnYEb-oh2NEkO7g7sMD38ucdEWEbAT_SmXs2ukEa-BZBicAHyR/s4032/IMG_0247.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPz9afVbWlErA7PhXfq8w-bxZ3znRpP_MSDETxPj1oox7qcpXb122jQy5WOX1dkUYdTJou56JpANWVvsNjHdh8L_yYYsy_LimNB9whuQt0984FQaBMAYe1dz01xVQCb2jUsXzTC4q5h0TnYEb-oh2NEkO7g7sMD38ucdEWEbAT_SmXs2ukEa-BZBicAHyR/w640-h480/IMG_0247.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And that’s where I am right now…so watch this space! 😁</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <p></p>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-76108570253365874932023-10-21T11:37:00.008+01:002023-10-21T11:40:34.331+01:00More workspace! 😁<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGzNXqQw22wWGZTYVpOmhX3pokm6iDn_Hj0ggsLuIPt1PHdfcQjji0zBspg-Qqr876_CvylcJJIOzfXMLqZ0EWH8B4f4AovpEur6pd3fh7h75HD0sIQyrnxJvS7fYgfUQl5XleyMYH6WNWZJKPuVukDoN_thP0iN6sd9642komHZ0C1tSqOd0ZuHXFgjXn/s3774/IMG_9871.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2830" data-original-width="3774" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGzNXqQw22wWGZTYVpOmhX3pokm6iDn_Hj0ggsLuIPt1PHdfcQjji0zBspg-Qqr876_CvylcJJIOzfXMLqZ0EWH8B4f4AovpEur6pd3fh7h75HD0sIQyrnxJvS7fYgfUQl5XleyMYH6WNWZJKPuVukDoN_thP0iN6sd9642komHZ0C1tSqOd0ZuHXFgjXn/w640-h480/IMG_9871.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yesterday morning, we had a lovely, rain free and very warm, few hours and I was outside (in my t shirt!), having a good tidy up. It was, as the words say on the picture above:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> ‘ Gardening gladdens the heart and sweetens the soul’! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m not one of these people who absolutely hates the winter months as I actually prefer cooler weather. I don’t suffer from ‘SAD’ etc but I don’t look forward to not being able to get out in the garden as often. And so I’ve been trying to think of what to do when the really cold and wet weather comes along.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">When we moved here, last year, due to my health problems, we downsized. Previously, I had a room for my teaching, a room for my sewing/ crafts and a room for my ‘library’. When the children left home, it was easy to ‘spread out’ and fill the spare rooms! And I was so lucky to enjoy that space for some years. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">However, we then moved house and that’s where it all became tricky! Three rooms into one room? Hmmmm! It broke my heart to either give away or throw away so much! I gave hundreds of books to three different schools and that was fine because they’d were all in superb condition and the schools were really happy to have them. That done, I then had to put on the hat that said, ‘RUTHLESS’! That was the difficult bit!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">And so the fun began. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">My new room is 12 ft 7 ins by 7ft 9 ins! And so it was a case of thinking very carefully about the space and how to use it efficiently. And we did that and I bought some bookshelves, a new desk and some drawer units and I have been really happy in my new workroom… apart from one thing. Desk space! And so, a few days ago, we decided to jiggle things around a little and after some measuring, we worked out that we could <b>JUST</b> fit in another desk! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">And so…on Thursday, I rang the owner of my favourite shop in Totnes, ‘Little Blue Budgie’, where I’d previously bought the first desk, and can you believe that he was able to arrange delivery of the new desk for the next day! Yesterday! Incredible service! I like that kind of service!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here it is: </span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn04aqSC9keE78LAcJIi6OcJGOlsMqIm8NQaSTX0ewxTQhxYmi7jsdPzaADFu16BNdTkmavda26C1Hq9NzT1P4lzkTdJLhyZG-iNnz6lTpIVy0okn-4Z7fnvnnNKqPImPAOIP1xQts5w3-H9-cz7prGfgQcgSb1TbszO1_-yP0qUULJ8kEL2beRZnRlf3k/s1245/IMG_9878.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1245" data-original-width="1216" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn04aqSC9keE78LAcJIi6OcJGOlsMqIm8NQaSTX0ewxTQhxYmi7jsdPzaADFu16BNdTkmavda26C1Hq9NzT1P4lzkTdJLhyZG-iNnz6lTpIVy0okn-4Z7fnvnnNKqPImPAOIP1xQts5w3-H9-cz7prGfgQcgSb1TbszO1_-yP0qUULJ8kEL2beRZnRlf3k/w391-h400/IMG_9878.jpeg" width="391" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">My other half soon put this together and he also sorted out extension/ adaptors for my radio, sewing machine, lamps etc etc and I spent the rest of the day doing what I love doing…organising, arranging…re-arranging etc etc! 😁</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF7_2EZsB1dXYOlLV1wlUfpmOmvxLYv89RAOSq77otQJTkE9rYtdJV_2ViNSeSFyFgnkaxJOHHU3OSfc3E6uoqgLr44TOl0ipRnaefeaFhdN6gPRHGDI1N_3_bc7m4L4YKUscEb0yhD_Dhw6V-IqF-ETgXNy2H8AKkhetdKRaAcZxIopihok83hsK8VkEm/s4032/IMG_0198.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF7_2EZsB1dXYOlLV1wlUfpmOmvxLYv89RAOSq77otQJTkE9rYtdJV_2ViNSeSFyFgnkaxJOHHU3OSfc3E6uoqgLr44TOl0ipRnaefeaFhdN6gPRHGDI1N_3_bc7m4L4YKUscEb0yhD_Dhw6V-IqF-ETgXNy2H8AKkhetdKRaAcZxIopihok83hsK8VkEm/w640-h480/IMG_0198.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You can’t really see the desks but they are there doing a fab job!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNkGuNec4NZyUZmhNEmg-lu0P8tOHJEVpPprPiCb4ftYQgwkYlqnCzFgmcuLDSc5cR-MnJ2PdbXfPNaQBlsK3oLOU7OCalhkUAjJp9WYcDTVLAZCmFUWrn5gyrD2V11SJgPJr22NrqyRL9P3xb42365Ks1cRYElrL1405QiBpy_c7OtHpF5ZyfmTv-MoP/s4032/IMG_0197.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNkGuNec4NZyUZmhNEmg-lu0P8tOHJEVpPprPiCb4ftYQgwkYlqnCzFgmcuLDSc5cR-MnJ2PdbXfPNaQBlsK3oLOU7OCalhkUAjJp9WYcDTVLAZCmFUWrn5gyrD2V11SJgPJr22NrqyRL9P3xb42365Ks1cRYElrL1405QiBpy_c7OtHpF5ZyfmTv-MoP/w640-h480/IMG_0197.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaYixatIPptVtj8e8rl2s17RsJcpDsEjt1DOYho2BGkgNIFKbOe_47olQ-l8hcfev5fayaO6m8saKYfDGNNni6e68V4XWgtKjnBXJms0E9eE1UvO1mkEncuNon5WZ05XkAvzw8mIlEQ32shOl7WBj2ePFikYZhUqOVAhe3do318HxcVYyfm8sYwVHVrFi8/s4032/IMG_0204.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaYixatIPptVtj8e8rl2s17RsJcpDsEjt1DOYho2BGkgNIFKbOe_47olQ-l8hcfev5fayaO6m8saKYfDGNNni6e68V4XWgtKjnBXJms0E9eE1UvO1mkEncuNon5WZ05XkAvzw8mIlEQ32shOl7WBj2ePFikYZhUqOVAhe3do318HxcVYyfm8sYwVHVrFi8/w480-h640/IMG_0204.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">And I now have more room to work…sewing is on the agenda. I bought these two books a few weeks ago and having had so many people mention, ‘slow stitching’, that’s what I’m going to do…I’m ready…</span></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUc0qscwZ2HQfwasApif9_qxIEKbPzEpVKC-bGhXk8C6JZNvTgpqaGf62jQAnS5zicYYyTClIOIxwD862Mfk2S4Vx8KkCwOvx9PwcgQtZrlEft4ndhiGOKqSK65J8WgdfQtC68ZWDnTN6e2wIp8ujhTFFytxOdtNSMY293Laty_3JeR1Ug3zj7xbyAJQyB/s4032/IMG_0201.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUc0qscwZ2HQfwasApif9_qxIEKbPzEpVKC-bGhXk8C6JZNvTgpqaGf62jQAnS5zicYYyTClIOIxwD862Mfk2S4Vx8KkCwOvx9PwcgQtZrlEft4ndhiGOKqSK65J8WgdfQtC68ZWDnTN6e2wIp8ujhTFFytxOdtNSMY293Laty_3JeR1Ug3zj7xbyAJQyB/w480-h640/IMG_0201.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">That is, until the gardening takes over!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> ‘Little Blue Budgie’ can be found </span><a href="https://www.littlebluebudgie.co.uk/"><span>here</span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meanwhile, have a very happy weekend! </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu30Jn4UtplC4SxxAcclOXYbl_npE6hDIIVi4YRu2iwBZzf7oOqEu6tyy1tY7HIGSQc_6XlJy5gNZLphWML5HM4zsiHWJtx3rVh_FKS1_733jg93iB16XTvP4kjmCSLuokvu7j98eaD5tP4w3CGQ2kYyAp8fLfFZNyNCAvioo2y7YCrROtwFs4bnQect6G/s3778/IMG_9875.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2835" data-original-width="3778" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu30Jn4UtplC4SxxAcclOXYbl_npE6hDIIVi4YRu2iwBZzf7oOqEu6tyy1tY7HIGSQc_6XlJy5gNZLphWML5HM4zsiHWJtx3rVh_FKS1_733jg93iB16XTvP4kjmCSLuokvu7j98eaD5tP4w3CGQ2kYyAp8fLfFZNyNCAvioo2y7YCrROtwFs4bnQect6G/w640-h480/IMG_9875.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-28782231337275379442023-10-15T21:07:00.005+01:002023-10-15T21:07:42.515+01:00Peace<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJmCTvSPrULB-4AXgG9zfy9bNbIddd1CmR-g3N-5JtDrZjde1sJfkfCJUY38xj6bd2T8GBNNpbwWioURyhgTzsQFgBcCTCxYtKQXp6VRBKj3wjGG8c12_rAid2XxoLXxQLMz4rhn_XkAM1Zal4Ep9y052ZO5G-Sw5fmPPdzm7iX3ufkDKRlQltlsxrvkA3/s3403/IMG_0182.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2914" data-original-width="3403" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJmCTvSPrULB-4AXgG9zfy9bNbIddd1CmR-g3N-5JtDrZjde1sJfkfCJUY38xj6bd2T8GBNNpbwWioURyhgTzsQFgBcCTCxYtKQXp6VRBKj3wjGG8c12_rAid2XxoLXxQLMz4rhn_XkAM1Zal4Ep9y052ZO5G-Sw5fmPPdzm7iX3ufkDKRlQltlsxrvkA3/w640-h548/IMG_0182.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Just when you think your roses are all done for the season….this one decides to bloom!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The stunning, ‘ Peace’…my all time favourite rose.</span></p>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-10942454589575455812023-10-13T19:10:00.003+01:002023-10-13T19:11:15.223+01:00Snippets …and meeting a blogger from across the pond.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl5gTNj4Ef_BerzD2YNBi236rPIatv1hyfYpIRuKMtuDXJnQL6XxPy7JBlqZvlKHT2sQP1MzuCD2XK6icT2JD9IIBeo6yW7BcGgrg5x6gYzEiWoArX81RplvaCBGVGtUAP3kIl4ijdDeNRlvfzvbUgejmOJPYgjr0MA9ripWg5gh4rfkIIMbBjJx-FOBpN/s2099/IMG_9750.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2099" data-original-width="1668" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl5gTNj4Ef_BerzD2YNBi236rPIatv1hyfYpIRuKMtuDXJnQL6XxPy7JBlqZvlKHT2sQP1MzuCD2XK6icT2JD9IIBeo6yW7BcGgrg5x6gYzEiWoArX81RplvaCBGVGtUAP3kIl4ijdDeNRlvfzvbUgejmOJPYgjr0MA9ripWg5gh4rfkIIMbBjJx-FOBpN/w508-h640/IMG_9750.jpeg" width="508" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The October garden has been lovely…and somewhat one of an extended summer. We’ve had warm, wet weather which has given everything a new lease of life. Yet,I think that is about to come to an end as the weekend approaches…colder weather is forecast.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXUa5xkGVmZVM8_htO3eixkdzwLKT5ZUFjgWvALgMF-Q-8tcUEKF9rhjAEaOT1mB8Xu0KlCHRZ6vwTXkSLAvN-dH36_ejvlIfK8PInsvOp_yX0N3co6M_wGg9Pj91dFFC4SOTdD2Hy-UlwsiV1F-2VPCAFxv8JrQWbgzqjnz1PZS5sF-PN06phcETQPnUN/s2036/IMG_9751.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2036" data-original-width="1668" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXUa5xkGVmZVM8_htO3eixkdzwLKT5ZUFjgWvALgMF-Q-8tcUEKF9rhjAEaOT1mB8Xu0KlCHRZ6vwTXkSLAvN-dH36_ejvlIfK8PInsvOp_yX0N3co6M_wGg9Pj91dFFC4SOTdD2Hy-UlwsiV1F-2VPCAFxv8JrQWbgzqjnz1PZS5sF-PN06phcETQPnUN/w524-h640/IMG_9751.jpeg" width="524" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">On Monday, we had a very important date! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We were meeting with a lovely blogger and her husband; they had arrived in the U.K. from the US, the day before, on Sunday. I think they were feeling slightly jet lagged but nevertheless, we arranged to meet on Monday at 3pm at a place called The Willows, just outside Torquay.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We made our way to Torquay… via the nursery that we love…and my beady eyes immediately saw this…</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwtxV4B-XI3f_ayHMpIcP4b2PDA0rWyDPALvfB8sGN118Tkf8E0zBkxDDhHxLVI_JrQZlX0vUiNSKvVnLAc44_-fcbYOwjU_cl-0L6cgYBspkT8i3F2l3rOBB93erEckiy9FlbAm3LnolgT9zxpqR2hUsjE4kDpBHMQDgxCZDVEmBemdZ__WWKfV6QkNjq/s3506/IMG_0143.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2673" data-original-width="3506" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwtxV4B-XI3f_ayHMpIcP4b2PDA0rWyDPALvfB8sGN118Tkf8E0zBkxDDhHxLVI_JrQZlX0vUiNSKvVnLAc44_-fcbYOwjU_cl-0L6cgYBspkT8i3F2l3rOBB93erEckiy9FlbAm3LnolgT9zxpqR2hUsjE4kDpBHMQDgxCZDVEmBemdZ__WWKfV6QkNjq/w640-h488/IMG_0143.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Oooooh! And then that ‘sinking’ feeling! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Of course, it wasn’t for sale! Nooooo! 😂</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Anyway, after a browse, coffee and a light lunch, we drove to The Willows. Once there, I sat and waited for my other half to have a browse in the men’s clothing whilst I eyed the rather lovely pumpkins with their cheesey grins…</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWOdCfPs2sJOpgSEp50bdcC_qBubhMw5e0asOLmSx7_21qTkYkI0GKtDewCgoTn4VjGB_XfGrRXngJUM02kvdjixZk9azIxNu01i8qSezECjLjMAtcB8Q6EeHbCJposbXs5lKZnxYGr8EiLo4FcUrkvwsXAyTUsLaNB4OIfdh9Q_1V5jPSocBv7vy9JKKU/s3397/IMG_0146.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3397" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWOdCfPs2sJOpgSEp50bdcC_qBubhMw5e0asOLmSx7_21qTkYkI0GKtDewCgoTn4VjGB_XfGrRXngJUM02kvdjixZk9azIxNu01i8qSezECjLjMAtcB8Q6EeHbCJposbXs5lKZnxYGr8EiLo4FcUrkvwsXAyTUsLaNB4OIfdh9Q_1V5jPSocBv7vy9JKKU/w570-h640/IMG_0146.jpeg" width="570" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: center;">We had not met Mary and her husband, before, and so we sat down at the arranged spot, carefully looking at the shoppers who were approaching the cafe! Eventually, we spotted each other and found a place to sit and natter whilst the men ordered the drinks! We swapped some small gifts and I think we talked and talked for two hours! It was lovely to put a face to the name on whose b</span><span style="text-align: center;">log I’ve been visiting since 2008! And </span><a href="https://abreathoffreshair-mary.blogspot.com/" style="text-align: center;"><span>here</span></a><span style="text-align: center;"> is Mary’s blog. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">Hopefully, we will meet again in the not too distant future.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">And now…I guess that I’ll be searching for a vintage garden sink, as per the photo! 😂😆😱 </span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-17132393439453871922023-10-03T09:25:00.001+01:002023-10-03T09:27:17.799+01:00A delightful, gardening experience.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWmSpqQtuxjDC7dEFw3Sn7edvu4_JDZLrZDO6ufuXiL7S7Mr9_PQrMLIrufXoqoU4I5U8FjFJoE6wvzPT4hspGgQcGCBoGxnqW0Uf3r2Dbdjguox_KX1mzRQevSS2nYvcOJqcdR6-LV3zyY7Y-G7eNN-tlnQqFUcx2hzYbIDazaUUxMfi1TQFdpHkybB6W/s4032/IMG_0102.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWmSpqQtuxjDC7dEFw3Sn7edvu4_JDZLrZDO6ufuXiL7S7Mr9_PQrMLIrufXoqoU4I5U8FjFJoE6wvzPT4hspGgQcGCBoGxnqW0Uf3r2Dbdjguox_KX1mzRQevSS2nYvcOJqcdR6-LV3zyY7Y-G7eNN-tlnQqFUcx2hzYbIDazaUUxMfi1TQFdpHkybB6W/w480-h640/IMG_0102.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Longcombe Cross Garden Centre, which is on the road between Totnes and Paignton, has quickly become </span><span>my favourite, small garden centre/ nursery. It’s about 15 minutes from </span><span>where I live. I’ve now visited three times and each time there’s been a different display at the entrance. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Today, a very gloomy, misty, grey day, I was greeted by some very bright and sunny watering cans!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5TpiMGEGLY5gUObOefDXySusD6uOdjAVW2Mml1oZIexGKk7pJlqJXlTJdPGanDqbzRhAxZ7RXOvgxdgBBcRZQ8cJplbNP7UMQbH4_P6GbS5TywLueLUp_51nIHARlu7Gh7uac6mt1e-bWVwv1PowV6jduf9jujrbplkTIUk3eFBApNury1BB5Z38qrMnD/s4032/IMG_0108.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5TpiMGEGLY5gUObOefDXySusD6uOdjAVW2Mml1oZIexGKk7pJlqJXlTJdPGanDqbzRhAxZ7RXOvgxdgBBcRZQ8cJplbNP7UMQbH4_P6GbS5TywLueLUp_51nIHARlu7Gh7uac6mt1e-bWVwv1PowV6jduf9jujrbplkTIUk3eFBApNury1BB5Z38qrMnD/w640-h480/IMG_0108.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>On the other side of the entrance doors were some pretty Pansies, colourful Cyclamen and </span><span>magnificent Michaelmas Daisies. </span><span>Sited right next to these was a selection of some rather happy looking herbs..</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7oD90rl6jssGqp7Chaj9sj1tuM-727-44u3qrcusjNpS36bbf3wSAACSrg6QpVXe-TrwYMquX-_RgMpkws7gjm5FpTwJDFNe4T_iWDKGst9CSKP1fkVIcYLxcO_0Lvc-cpjcP-cXcX7xC29p8gt3PHM5BupQV8lVKYTjTPiA4npuoENQJLs6udGisl0NA/s4032/IMG_0089.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7oD90rl6jssGqp7Chaj9sj1tuM-727-44u3qrcusjNpS36bbf3wSAACSrg6QpVXe-TrwYMquX-_RgMpkws7gjm5FpTwJDFNe4T_iWDKGst9CSKP1fkVIcYLxcO_0Lvc-cpjcP-cXcX7xC29p8gt3PHM5BupQV8lVKYTjTPiA4npuoENQJLs6udGisl0NA/w480-h640/IMG_0089.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">…and some splendid succulents</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIxBNVG_-aJE_GNQPCLBQHGU5dnm6d8rtKwvegCUfJdTM7ugXgHc0jMADjMB1t6B4w8CoAA1395ICLTv9ttURQuQnQZG9Rstqg8GWBcikohtoFyrKjSbkh-IC0FEDKQHprUCcwBVe81nPyraGpgDiNkWJ_O5boMniB2W0c8wFt2E_HgWT_wAm1Ha7PHKFK/s3844/IMG_0090.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3020" data-original-width="3844" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIxBNVG_-aJE_GNQPCLBQHGU5dnm6d8rtKwvegCUfJdTM7ugXgHc0jMADjMB1t6B4w8CoAA1395ICLTv9ttURQuQnQZG9Rstqg8GWBcikohtoFyrKjSbkh-IC0FEDKQHprUCcwBVe81nPyraGpgDiNkWJ_O5boMniB2W0c8wFt2E_HgWT_wAm1Ha7PHKFK/w640-h502/IMG_0090.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Dotted around, are seats for one to rest awhile, which for me is a bonus as I like to sit and gather my </span><span>thoughts, now and again, and my energy levels are not what they once were.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQGxSBHVg0RVeIySBDCw1KnTOaB3Jg-nfkgzaKFIp07vShupTMi5gWsGWO7iq-1Wd_f1TSppGM_33x33xZOyCTnPoFQGOeP9ncUbo_K3iZt07vuo9LjSIomYRe-TfsCTAP_FKWPzkRTd1Vg-XT5zRdCMefq4oJm7PvFDa1qmcsqTJymFkZLUGPaJCIe976/s3415/IMG_0096.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2962" data-original-width="3415" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQGxSBHVg0RVeIySBDCw1KnTOaB3Jg-nfkgzaKFIp07vShupTMi5gWsGWO7iq-1Wd_f1TSppGM_33x33xZOyCTnPoFQGOeP9ncUbo_K3iZt07vuo9LjSIomYRe-TfsCTAP_FKWPzkRTd1Vg-XT5zRdCMefq4oJm7PvFDa1qmcsqTJymFkZLUGPaJCIe976/w640-h556/IMG_0096.jpeg" width="640" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>I already have my eye on these fern, plant holders! They didn’t come home with me today…but they will! </span><span>I’ve a small future project for which I’m gathering some fab ‘features’.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">😂😂😂</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtlT8fUvgi5NjpnCNxp5h-fR5lT_cZj7YOVs2lVrbGoQSUNK473E63mGBS6oQCvq5HmpALFaAA8dEe7YM76rv6Vx_gkStaWll2Xyy9CNXiGrFZR64juD0745oTv5YlvQmcq5BodeBpMNIAMHRGFi-bLEp5aGL0Ll_dVEMUy3SEkuyXJXwkwQqHQkxQEbDM/s3147/IMG_0093.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2966" data-original-width="3147" height="604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtlT8fUvgi5NjpnCNxp5h-fR5lT_cZj7YOVs2lVrbGoQSUNK473E63mGBS6oQCvq5HmpALFaAA8dEe7YM76rv6Vx_gkStaWll2Xyy9CNXiGrFZR64juD0745oTv5YlvQmcq5BodeBpMNIAMHRGFi-bLEp5aGL0Ll_dVEMUy3SEkuyXJXwkwQqHQkxQEbDM/w640-h604/IMG_0093.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Much thought is given to displays and although I didn’t photograph them, there are notices placed around here and there, that</span><span> give you tips/ hints about the plants.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHIjhDt40g45iGOxILwiGqQadJdb4Y3qEGfeNMlM0G1l1jFlrEUAh1bYIA2J7-8tuJ_S-Ok4uiPGh2fKtBq_ZVhDUGDd8MRfu4yWbAsNEmvW9rwpT5zUjBYYQLGcydu5C81ZcRRx-JBCPUG0SaLfccW1lwPUNYQwr-HBbYl3y_RAG0Oh3vsROobTT5kBel/s4032/IMG_0103.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHIjhDt40g45iGOxILwiGqQadJdb4Y3qEGfeNMlM0G1l1jFlrEUAh1bYIA2J7-8tuJ_S-Ok4uiPGh2fKtBq_ZVhDUGDd8MRfu4yWbAsNEmvW9rwpT5zUjBYYQLGcydu5C81ZcRRx-JBCPUG0SaLfccW1lwPUNYQwr-HBbYl3y_RAG0Oh3vsROobTT5kBel/w640-h480/IMG_0103.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrlz6ZQFx87WBtZYVOlt9dJg6t91p3N5_CrVZNwdgdHdCWHEFAGaPVY0VyN6Q62DkMDekP4bCkqA9tg9Vu3fhALUV4SToJZvxwWmQ0ydySbUE1wcEs-V9Eb4LAkPTCAU30GurgyB-L4S910PovVHgPaWN6CPZnZnYOgPHCH7QNlv8XvemZJaxfZJ9Db1fZ/w640-h480/IMG_0099.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>There are also polytunnels in which to browse; above are two…one with climbers and one with plenty of </span><span>perennial plants at very reasonable prices…(I’ve lurked in this one more than anywhere else!) and then </span><span>below, is as the sign says…</span></span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5VsL6m65og3fUL8J8MUc6PPAhuSgCOwSXN_LI7B1fogneiLv61aDQtqOOAjk_ioGs5NHlTh7y7RJ5IuRLxcHYbVK-K00TvOSO-D3tD5WWkgAwOGH2VPTGWRMBMXtr6Kw1NGnfeeYr30mF2TG0uXLA5NpUWVuJgAVVzO_27egb2jLJEKtcP8d1CRYg-gAJ/s3437/IMG_0098.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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And beyond this, is the cafe and a small play area for toddlers.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMra2sMVaEOnSuqMXd-btt7CsVlrLBvfJ0lGea13kNAvM8joKnTmbaTDE1Y2wT4jQzkH9cv5JktFwKcGbeJMqYi-PDNNr72bv7qFJjMX8IEG22V49siwsWReZ_1yZueOF8pFNtgZeV-Gv4BgBDcUyFF04J9UnOpapTtInpBIWcm3pfv74qnpkdgpXdrtM/s4032/IMG_0106.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMra2sMVaEOnSuqMXd-btt7CsVlrLBvfJ0lGea13kNAvM8joKnTmbaTDE1Y2wT4jQzkH9cv5JktFwKcGbeJMqYi-PDNNr72bv7qFJjMX8IEG22V49siwsWReZ_1yZueOF8pFNtgZeV-Gv4BgBDcUyFF04J9UnOpapTtInpBIWcm3pfv74qnpkdgpXdrtM/w640-h480/IMG_0106.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfwPY0xxYkYHkJqQlsQVuYJPKOm4avftazH65EhohEhaN_3MCZ_C4R9SjwFKnmSt17IyrtMY6omFw4RuzyxkOQxhQFVUDX99pvYrXmJFiC5Z2v4h1mly3pt9lp0n7BYs3Fm1Jb8bp4Erx9Ykd9Yqn0Jny-GDtvkvsArGX7TRJ5mcKFUKTVWgxYSKgOyGz9/s4032/IMG_0107.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfwPY0xxYkYHkJqQlsQVuYJPKOm4avftazH65EhohEhaN_3MCZ_C4R9SjwFKnmSt17IyrtMY6omFw4RuzyxkOQxhQFVUDX99pvYrXmJFiC5Z2v4h1mly3pt9lp0n7BYs3Fm1Jb8bp4Erx9Ykd9Yqn0Jny-GDtvkvsArGX7TRJ5mcKFUKTVWgxYSKgOyGz9/w640-h480/IMG_0107.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p> <span style="font-size: x-large;">I like this place more and more; its not big and impersonal, the staff are very friendly, the displays are ever changing, the prices are reasonable and it’s a pleasurable, gardening experience.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguOUkejD_4Zr28eQxX3758xmzjidWEf9dFJ7msisWFzRnC09hiYVup7bNe8YAIVwjxkm8zSNh1U-yo9tW4VgoU3pJXAYOBZ004blAPgn744LDSwztGNpfYLMmmODjRfetAThw7Ie2jJlfFrIAAF-suRI8qyljbY7-aUrBRu7SgNtO3fsNGrhRCvYkf5OiK/s4032/IMG_0092.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguOUkejD_4Zr28eQxX3758xmzjidWEf9dFJ7msisWFzRnC09hiYVup7bNe8YAIVwjxkm8zSNh1U-yo9tW4VgoU3pJXAYOBZ004blAPgn744LDSwztGNpfYLMmmODjRfetAThw7Ie2jJlfFrIAAF-suRI8qyljbY7-aUrBRu7SgNtO3fsNGrhRCvYkf5OiK/w640-h480/IMG_0092.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-8517855654295316952023-09-29T16:27:00.000+01:002023-09-29T16:27:07.452+01:00Oh to be in England…<div align="center"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmuWjgcjljzsIzLwgnZ-kCTXcce2xL3AhPRK571iQhdbpWF7lfSzrPHHmB1nYIhJcTTNglOUt7Pe_eTSRyZ8iDyoqMvcEzgziSypoO4-njp-97TfmKazXw7v3HSCjXIq9Cv1Jc9zpBvONove-PmVVhamVQjE1mczCcCAqat2l_ctRy44OL1gVzsKArD91l/s1347/IMG_9472.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1331" data-original-width="1347" height="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmuWjgcjljzsIzLwgnZ-kCTXcce2xL3AhPRK571iQhdbpWF7lfSzrPHHmB1nYIhJcTTNglOUt7Pe_eTSRyZ8iDyoqMvcEzgziSypoO4-njp-97TfmKazXw7v3HSCjXIq9Cv1Jc9zpBvONove-PmVVhamVQjE1mczCcCAqat2l_ctRy44OL1gVzsKArD91l/w640-h632/IMG_9472.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Angry or what? Sycamore Gap. How could anyone do such a stinking, rotten thing? You could feel the anger across the country when the news broke that some delinquent had managed to destroy what was an iconic landmark in our beautiful country.</span></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh988Dq2n7WLBNhEQ9s3ARkXlr6wgFAFfslIf-sCgwiKaGJIvw5OIJsqbvuNxxBL9eJrgwDssKP46iPdxwX0xmRDwIYi0jGj3PhVBliV3Z_qqZvmADbad4ij0GMqeCKRfzuezjd66W9yI878jutTWmgUc7udwnyeGZe4S-4zyTBYsfwZ5Tz1SYTAl1YfzyB/s1200/IMG_9452.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh988Dq2n7WLBNhEQ9s3ARkXlr6wgFAFfslIf-sCgwiKaGJIvw5OIJsqbvuNxxBL9eJrgwDssKP46iPdxwX0xmRDwIYi0jGj3PhVBliV3Z_qqZvmADbad4ij0GMqeCKRfzuezjd66W9yI878jutTWmgUc7udwnyeGZe4S-4zyTBYsfwZ5Tz1SYTAl1YfzyB/w480-h640/IMG_9452.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Anyway, moving on…</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">Many years ago, I wrote a similar blog post to this and so I thought I’d repeat it. I love the country in which I live!</span></div><div align="center"><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ-TxpS2Sj5u6tXRsA_BJVUMKx3r2FJLjX43IHDm8YTndB2Gw4Zrmmf-jILtrvJa1hMG0tDab3KAZf1bpS3xy0QKNtBQtC7PNNepDNtoHsBxu1sCAoK3r75uU4uySc9fPWydZJ4JYMBGK8/s1600-h/DEVON.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209442207069936530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ-TxpS2Sj5u6tXRsA_BJVUMKx3r2FJLjX43IHDm8YTndB2Gw4Zrmmf-jILtrvJa1hMG0tDab3KAZf1bpS3xy0QKNtBQtC7PNNepDNtoHsBxu1sCAoK3r75uU4uySc9fPWydZJ4JYMBGK8/w472-h640/DEVON.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="472" /></a><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve mentioned before that when I was about 13 years old, I was taken on a <span style="color: #330099;">grand <span style="color: red;">tour</span></span> of England. It was during one summer that we ‘escaped’, from Devon ! <span style="text-align: left;">My dad drove us up one side of England and back down the other, with occasional diversions into the middle, taking in the many beautiful historical sites that our country has to offer. He was <span style="background-color: white;">history mad</span> and it was one of my favourite subjects at school, too. </span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This was a fantastic opportunity to really get to know England and probably one that I did not fully appreciate at the time but one that I most certainly do now.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>I can say that I have set foot in almost every cathedral in England! </span><span style="text-align: left;">I love Salisbury Cathedral for its elegant spire and Lincoln Cathedral for its presence and beautiful sounding organ. I love Winchester Cathedral, as one Christmas I was standing in the cathedral and the choir started to sing; it was absolutely beautiful </span><span style="text-align: left;">and I found myself crying! York Minster is massive with a presence that is almost indescribable. Exeter has a special place in my heart even though I wouldn’t choose it as the most beautiful. Ely, Gloucester, Norwich, </span><span style="text-align: left;">Canterbury…they all trip off the tongue as I really enjoyed visiting those…and not forgetting St Paul’s …and oh so many more! The beauty of these buildings, inside and out, leave me speechless and leave me standing in awe…and wonder.</span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And then there are castles…</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKvhcoqOiQ6tnbiUkFguLxCp-i0apAdR9-e1VilJgehbg10rTORXU1Ls6BmaiGdwoXxWmtYQgei8Z_FRjvZhRbjOQRqWVCuYJmlmbpYvAjzFz4l4i4emEecw1867k6ZF-SJvY5l2OKI8rJJKP7-frSVRMmIOoX7zx4o4c8THbtS4lQZkNqQ_V48ESE0p3R/s1920/IMG_9470.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKvhcoqOiQ6tnbiUkFguLxCp-i0apAdR9-e1VilJgehbg10rTORXU1Ls6BmaiGdwoXxWmtYQgei8Z_FRjvZhRbjOQRqWVCuYJmlmbpYvAjzFz4l4i4emEecw1867k6ZF-SJvY5l2OKI8rJJKP7-frSVRMmIOoX7zx4o4c8THbtS4lQZkNqQ_V48ESE0p3R/w640-h360/IMG_9470.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve also visited so many castles in this country. I absolutely adored Bamburgh Castle, for the setting...and I marvelled at the spectacular iron age hill fort of Maiden Castle... I’ve tramped around this a few times!</span></div><div align="center"><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209751655237058610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2oIWCTKwQfy-ldDF5VhuveAQxJVKekwADJj54E2U_BNZtXfcmUGMrDHqvmUH8o6wQMtzp7P1rYzzjLsk1tzVDIkbdyiJ1n_jhs3Ttds1hmmIXC_xUwX2d_nzkigOLc3Eoof4NFAiWPWLn/w640-h480/maiden+ramp+2.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I've also stood on many former battlefields (with my imaginary battle axe and mace!)</span></div><div align="center"><br /></div><br /><div align="center"></div><img alt="" border="0" height="397" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209787096985983682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCCf8TPE2JJjhy9f1gwUujOk-JgIoaHuhtNCh5w76BZGh3uCJ_kXtOzOUGtStkJvUdcKE825qhDQWRrhK6lDXLcn7LUH5uki4RWi57fm97PKqCsmRowQj_vuGIrumUs8LNClCIp0GQF6Ub/w640-h397/bayeux.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /> <p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">I have traipsed along Hadrian’s Wall...or at least part of it!</span><br /></p><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center"><img alt="" border="0" height="482" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209761515522606018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgojLm9WbLhC_Omrk25LoApBILF9bqfHtPF4AtUPa0ls9yugls9eJq4gvoqrpiNttTq7OfmY-LMY1-VxYSZYXishFFSXwiXsch3jCFLCVoBRgvYnrm6iqxcEhTz6tfKxCnQuwICymmaVxqe/w640-h482/hadrians.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></p><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I have stood near the spot in the New Forest, where William Rufus was killed.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You name it, I have been there and I have probably done it...all when I was 13!</span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">When you are 13, just growing out of your Bunty and Judy annuals (remember them?), discovering football and boys (but not necessarily in that order!) you really aren't too bothered about who shot who and where... or where the Magna Carta was signed (Yes, I've been there too!)😁<br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You see, growing up as a teenager in the 60s was a 'lorra lorra' fun..all those fashion trends to keep up with (mini skirts and hot pants!) and all those Beatles/Stones lyrics to learn. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And then there was the 1966 World Cup and England went wild! I spent ages making a scrapbook because I found that I could draw World Cup Willie, (the mascot that is!) really well!</span><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">However, amidst all of that trivia, my dad insisted that we should know our own country. He actually felt quite strongly that we should. And my <span style="text-align: left;">parents had </span><span style="color: black; text-align: left;">this lovely book</span><span style="text-align: left;"> to guide us through our fabulous summer tour…not any old book but this book. It's still in my bookcase today. And I love books. Here it is:</span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><br /></div><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="514" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209968751521782050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfcSTbsdcHQoaDUODe1jFxo5yCS9bK4IZxi3ZKpXUbmy8FRZR-iF98Ru13wWgJgiv4Jmxgdi861d-e4did_Z7jveF6BAZBMPJ9VTsPjdEyt4f_GwaSmJ7SwubFM4QnOVXu-dLvWqjn7IQF/w640-h514/shell.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /><br /><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Even at 13, I treasured this book! I taught myself all about the counties of our country and so much more (because the book also includes Wales and Scotland.) And, needless to say, it was the beautiful colour plates that I found so enchanting. So charming. I would get completely lost in those lovely pictures. Poking about the oast houses and orchards of Kent was my favourite pastime! And to see them in real life brought me such joy!</span><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209973481793042114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj2V4cGoLCQbluxKPqPZmnX126C0G4rbNG8axC8rJ8bMfy_K-pJAXCMwWd3MHOu1NaAOZ4Ko3ytcvYKCr0VQV-YNqGuM9fa-ynMcI64tu8aQhZB4bxU-bzU4LoN6oVJqkXbdIL3EI4OLAn/w472-h640/KENT.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="472" /><br /><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I know that my love for my country, England, stems from my dad, that fantastic summer holiday trip and this wonderful book. <span style="text-align: left;">I would so love to do that trip again, one day.</span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I don't yearn for holidays sitting on foreign beaches; that would bore me silly. That's just not me. But I do yearn for finding out as much as I can about my own country, England.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I thank my mum and my dad for those fabulous experiences.... and the memories!<br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;"><strong>So, I’ve set a little quiz, for fun! 😁</strong></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Which English counties do you think that each of these pics below represent? </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are ten to work out.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Put your answers on the comments page for this post please…that is if you’d like to take part.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here goes:</span></div><div align="center"></div><br /><br /><div align="center">1.<img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209971327789468530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_XqOOD0ms5kONKb9vD96ToMVfU6zqS6ylRV9Tu1fqSAhZFoHWe9gp3vlLLoGJuzyVEORlN-7fv-ycqN5mRTDTWU9Y7-J9l8RyS35tsLZEiJ0-X3NuYMpBycI2Rl0Tqf1fR9VCZbYHPuE6/w472-h640/GLOUCS.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="472" /></div><br /><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center">2.<img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209971796758782626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYZrfEBxtUSfZvgKTYSwJmouifofmn0L0i4TGlPfut8aTSrnwg20sqkIS1rx6icMQa8DZFVvMnJkQg9Rwp4OwUv3E6tPVu72Ab3XWUoujfgCSz8QLjBd1V6cRG8OA_OAwX1hRZ2EB52Rkn/w472-h640/BERKSHIRE.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="472" /><br /><br /></p><p align="center"><span style="text-align: left;">3.</span></p><p align="center"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209972767798082962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuSQCxgf0yXJgVE8z6EYdd7Y7fDOxzYPgXR7bQtBKq1bF_gXACYbdfgLJoB70sgrx0_MUyyDRnVH0n945vbi_sS8GBIUUXjGETJGlrqVNE0lVy_8OQHrRBzEqFpWSi3qTT4QY7oBGAOJYV/w472-h640/SUFFOLK.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="472" /></p><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center">4.<img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209973123208171826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWvnD-BYIr9RL6LlCdk12fTb-Qg0tmbAYPBhs8K3slEqVqWmVqfseVgNLNC5UtXW1qSlcCbkRPec5mxWOKpngVR4lBnNfeJrxdArB2xqS8w3MusyvtqciUwH38GWCNqMVvmw3q6PrmFBHU/w472-h640/SHROPSHIRE.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="472" /> </p><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center">5. <img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209973760284090962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIppq5KjnLLw46XCFWOkjetsePDzGULano1WO4LpDzPS5mR09RPxxF1wPXRCL2LhNSqkrBXUjE6w0assFNcRm-DwO1LDOZrsxhYv4xNc5VP3W8pg77pBCggo0xMgeWy7BWjnUVIABt8I-Y/w466-h640/yorkshire.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="466" /></p><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center">6.<img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209975581418583362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC4KT4YDu5-JFHPnUkMo3DGkWd-3vOmKuGXN1Atzqu7L7FVS_Aq7Rt_aTSxGbj3iTbU0UQewCUfFQwn8YwdHTipqxaBh4hGDdD1c6TE3gFuZhScE_KYe52ZA4PS6r-lka2I1cr4_Ed1X1d/w451-h640/lincs.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="451" /></p><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center"><br /></p><p align="center">7. <img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209975986316755442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ZodS8wCaAWwdbhpyg6xmSxuS7_6Yg9hDm3AjAbpm_uCLhDvjulQ4DC76_Cua9_nfQOjM9geQLuMkkSPSVonNiRbgz223m8y7_o6T-T5xzUWRAWZQzY7f9AmnjKKatcwEkZK-7G508QYj/w451-h640/warwicks.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="451" /></p><br /><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">8.</div><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209976244680117330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8SASfupL9CJPOUWx9_0Jgz3IsTKX7-XR2YU64huBZBoeQN1fb8zmTXUYeLP9hBvzMb9RF_6NyMpps2uD-FCvegSfsCZfboFB-ochgv3BIoSAuqCGjeOy1aFpTjKr9V_nN5hPiePFj-y03/w443-h640/notts.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="443" /><br /><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">9.<img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209976514926296818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8mRLGOIOv49uYmcDI9KWQk6Llo4pWxaqOUWCIvCgixXRg_smC6xcKHlUwhte9VxyhBvTPVe0aRGIdQfkClRYrGR4v6SOu5hQJDiq-3aWGSaXn-SWf1wnSiXQc5cO9AA8NeMObAhA58uYG/w451-h640/middx.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="451" /></div><br /><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">10.<img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209982456805400226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF1xQi8NhZutfTisIb6gLvNfgT8cki0o9dEaba6bp0R2OjZ9gxM-XBxNvQ88PcxeN4SAUbFprby0XoRR12Av1WMshutj0KpuNciK0gqZMSD6g38K50DxCQy-5ueHVK9u9RuSLyNzgJSnDR/w451-h640/leics+and+rut.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="451" /><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Easy ?! ;-) 😂</span></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"></div>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-73847843049097895652023-09-24T12:58:00.008+01:002023-09-24T13:11:52.923+01:00Back to the garden…<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJloV5w3BWEeclrsPf2JHZ7H85jpgWd3uLtL0zfpdxiLt21_kh_6UkRxhH7F01dbYXMw-1b9VpGZTl0nO9geccXIeZL6hMwfA8UWrcSV9aiZVGXPRABQPHsq5WroKNtUZBX4fskgnR4Ujf_GcNeVQ01itQBwkKVGXT4vEThkmSEyAINqGVpFcvuNer02kJ/s1612/IMG_9376.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1612" data-original-width="1406" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJloV5w3BWEeclrsPf2JHZ7H85jpgWd3uLtL0zfpdxiLt21_kh_6UkRxhH7F01dbYXMw-1b9VpGZTl0nO9geccXIeZL6hMwfA8UWrcSV9aiZVGXPRABQPHsq5WroKNtUZBX4fskgnR4Ujf_GcNeVQ01itQBwkKVGXT4vEThkmSEyAINqGVpFcvuNer02kJ/w558-h640/IMG_9376.jpeg" width="558" /></a></div><p><br /></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here’s a lovely painting to start this post! It caught my eye a few days ago. It’s called, ‘The Bird Table’ and it’s by the artist John Lines. I think it’s rather charming. No words needed as the art says it all!</span><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Born in Rugby in 1938, John Lines still lives there. He is an artist who captures nostalgia, romance, humour and beauty of the British countryside as well as British urban life.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meanwhile, in my garden, its been a busy time …</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKG8J74v0Of1leWXNUDeloQpb1i4EAgj0RkCuMOZbrHwlP9Z9Y-Urf3zsdFcPZDiaD7bGlNGtZnveS7TDkp8MpcM4-OuLr2au-ageKZEVm5ZTssPxSnRVR7-sLrWOEaNziGOKMfuExSL70QreYXVLI8K3d4dc-AqHuU4I3f_xGNUxAh-TogwGdRqmb_5P7/s4032/IMG_0003.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKG8J74v0Of1leWXNUDeloQpb1i4EAgj0RkCuMOZbrHwlP9Z9Y-Urf3zsdFcPZDiaD7bGlNGtZnveS7TDkp8MpcM4-OuLr2au-ageKZEVm5ZTssPxSnRVR7-sLrWOEaNziGOKMfuExSL70QreYXVLI8K3d4dc-AqHuU4I3f_xGNUxAh-TogwGdRqmb_5P7/w640-h480/IMG_0003.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve been beavering away in this corner.‘Composting’ is the buzzword right now! Last year, I inherited two composters, one really good ‘n sturdy and the other a ‘pain in the you know what’; the reason being that it has no ‘door’ at the bottom…but what I didn’t discover until Friday was….that it had NO BASE either and that something at the bottom of the compost was well rooted into the ground! Thus there was a large mass of nonsense that needed removing…that was fun trying to prize all away!</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvvbZOe8p1OfBNPxS4Oh-BzkkWvNwQVaKEddo0RdzLMVpYbnMtv8Cnr-RlWp7HadN6QFx1_eO3KXadTBI1BDCHVrsp7xqNbk_XJCxTaFzy8xY10CuuRR5lxHtoLz-lclQL62W7gvXzwpId_djeRAntdJVS-uKfJiO6EjRqzSma__q_OiBmzYUMKCpVVIuA/s4032/IMG_0004.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvvbZOe8p1OfBNPxS4Oh-BzkkWvNwQVaKEddo0RdzLMVpYbnMtv8Cnr-RlWp7HadN6QFx1_eO3KXadTBI1BDCHVrsp7xqNbk_XJCxTaFzy8xY10CuuRR5lxHtoLz-lclQL62W7gvXzwpId_djeRAntdJVS-uKfJiO6EjRqzSma__q_OiBmzYUMKCpVVIuA/w480-h640/IMG_0004.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">That done, the area is now lovely and tidy; the ‘pain in the your know what’ has been assigned to the rubbish pile and there’s a lovely space, all ready for… a second composter. I’m really getting into this composting lark! 😁👍🍃</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZwWmFqOGpoaizICD_-WJc8eTe-HBYMcKAg3dUVRG128yUjdHi7TlWPHqr4nXjYIwi88JB2XBzHfoaIth6EKa2-bYkDemkMLn0D5OHwvED2biT5ti8KXCARqYE2Tbs-6wQZo__pIY8epR9L4mpf2BTGuo4y72FETZA_KYagwOcYpbovQhHOoQ7fW2t200/s4032/IMG_0018.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZwWmFqOGpoaizICD_-WJc8eTe-HBYMcKAg3dUVRG128yUjdHi7TlWPHqr4nXjYIwi88JB2XBzHfoaIth6EKa2-bYkDemkMLn0D5OHwvED2biT5ti8KXCARqYE2Tbs-6wQZo__pIY8epR9L4mpf2BTGuo4y72FETZA_KYagwOcYpbovQhHOoQ7fW2t200/w480-h640/IMG_0018.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">And I almost forgot the best bit! 6+ bucketfuls of gorgeous, lush compost was removed from the ‘good ‘n sturdy’ bin and spread on to my raised bed. There’s nothing like getting your hands in lush compost, especially when it’s home made…so satisfying! My raised bed is going to be re-done and made larger, hopefully soonish, and so I’ve cleared it, just about!</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigIELEszC09kRUdrApa0Rf0y2p2Gv9pRPsB3nIWIrwEfYeidxPiO-i2xaxQiqfyNk8yH9wwLGx9k7c_PHNdqaM51WkNcfzceMdqEa65ejtUBARQH3TVSHgSEuEq6y675oGMp_hYbQs25pmo5H9bJqJkT8KpcKUAJ-CTB25UoShbm6mSfJArUBo0WJprznp/s4032/IMG_0024.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigIELEszC09kRUdrApa0Rf0y2p2Gv9pRPsB3nIWIrwEfYeidxPiO-i2xaxQiqfyNk8yH9wwLGx9k7c_PHNdqaM51WkNcfzceMdqEa65ejtUBARQH3TVSHgSEuEq6y675oGMp_hYbQs25pmo5H9bJqJkT8KpcKUAJ-CTB25UoShbm6mSfJArUBo0WJprznp/w480-h640/IMG_0024.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The other thing that I love using is something called ‘Strulch’; it’s a straw mulch; I’ve used it for years and I swear by it! When we moved here, I left many things behind that I now regret but I did bring my spare bags of Strulch! And on Friday, I used a bag to mulch another area of my garden, above , after planting 15 Primula plants that I’d grown from small plugs plants. I couldn’t find seeds for the varieties I fancied and so I purchased these from Peninsula Primulas and I have to say that too is an excellent company with which to do business. If I find a good company then I like to stick with them…Here they are:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://penprimulas.com/">Peninsula Primulas</a><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">BTW, during the strulching, I noticed this Jersey Lily had bloomed:</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-HSahVEomk5xPHTgh3r2Wgwjf1sdQrrw33Uhp-YG9SYDjdE5lWGBfLDWUEPzD78IsIEJAVv9U4pBqoZUtLqIkfUWqBpBAfdaZYh5Ewsx6HD_UPjKpzqs3pWlcIz95CoSSvc8hMunPgzvaDc3YI0aPKfVNq56xBw_vVcL3fgL_2ONc1twJtDG7ZIkAd5yZ/s4032/IMG_0025.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-HSahVEomk5xPHTgh3r2Wgwjf1sdQrrw33Uhp-YG9SYDjdE5lWGBfLDWUEPzD78IsIEJAVv9U4pBqoZUtLqIkfUWqBpBAfdaZYh5Ewsx6HD_UPjKpzqs3pWlcIz95CoSSvc8hMunPgzvaDc3YI0aPKfVNq56xBw_vVcL3fgL_2ONc1twJtDG7ZIkAd5yZ/w480-h640/IMG_0025.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m not a lover of Lilies but it is quite pretty.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">My favourite garden plant is the old fashioned Foxglove. I’ve grown them from seed this summer and I recently re-potted them. Last autumn, I had a lovely, healthy batch, which I left outside and we had so much rain throughout the autumn that they all eventually rotted. I was gutted! So, here we go again! And it’s so wet here right now that I’ve kept them all inside, along with some Forget- Me-Nots.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9XroZc4HpdRXXj3XcyOvQZLSEZ8V0hY5yf65kwy5FCiaGTQqdeW1iUXNxCN-hZ-_5baawCRxwfycYqOGDdcMUyq4VV4lDW4ZcFVTKAh7142kerfMEHlr00r1UEnA7-POH5_-aOdUFlPL-SMHOsuGSDo-yWmaCc73c6eIIWlMfd-bvLnglQtCRP4jw7vRy/s4032/IMG_0008.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9XroZc4HpdRXXj3XcyOvQZLSEZ8V0hY5yf65kwy5FCiaGTQqdeW1iUXNxCN-hZ-_5baawCRxwfycYqOGDdcMUyq4VV4lDW4ZcFVTKAh7142kerfMEHlr00r1UEnA7-POH5_-aOdUFlPL-SMHOsuGSDo-yWmaCc73c6eIIWlMfd-bvLnglQtCRP4jw7vRy/w480-h640/IMG_0008.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It’s therapeutic and really gladdens my heart after such a rubbish two years of being unwell.</span><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXFqjIJ2d-C4CFlDz6fB_yAr62ZeFsoivuFWibq5-GuI6dG60YaUWve3BizYIjBkDgokrbzamtDF2PL8k6yjKdBh-ua99EtqxYHYZguTMLHhj4umbDembJxB-lhcFnIcgrd-68F1V6_bw8Ev07xem_aCsmRFF6XL0IsSUAi5Pw7dLPqHE7nmmoOXTTJbi4/s4032/IMG_0017.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXFqjIJ2d-C4CFlDz6fB_yAr62ZeFsoivuFWibq5-GuI6dG60YaUWve3BizYIjBkDgokrbzamtDF2PL8k6yjKdBh-ua99EtqxYHYZguTMLHhj4umbDembJxB-lhcFnIcgrd-68F1V6_bw8Ev07xem_aCsmRFF6XL0IsSUAi5Pw7dLPqHE7nmmoOXTTJbi4/w480-h640/IMG_0017.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The alpines have settled into their new abode too. And just to say that in the two pots are two plants called Dodecatheon. They are dormant right now but I expect great things from them in the spring!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_4ZakobF7vN_s5B-iUUS1GkOLbXnfkzb3EnBG2xSE4hmvFub2YW6_ayuFkeGRhOCTifILFJ1BbDGtQa_w9rtgMNkydCs3F2ueWOeGlLy1SHKbLWB8X7dmRhuTCth2c73i5d53-6hUChh564N0xI9mWXCitR88CPVnI4vVYCQm8-qL-gCHgizrpct_kyWB/s4032/IMG_0019.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_4ZakobF7vN_s5B-iUUS1GkOLbXnfkzb3EnBG2xSE4hmvFub2YW6_ayuFkeGRhOCTifILFJ1BbDGtQa_w9rtgMNkydCs3F2ueWOeGlLy1SHKbLWB8X7dmRhuTCth2c73i5d53-6hUChh564N0xI9mWXCitR88CPVnI4vVYCQm8-qL-gCHgizrpct_kyWB/w640-h480/IMG_0019.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here’s a peek of what they will, hopefully, produce…</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgarkRsVH0gxoLHFOM9umMNotvoOMiOA0RmxJsBTGllklN5NTMiJFUqrMYB49wUrjXUgMlIBEGrQGjjzpNWXNqHDfR9GNw9sdnbzvIsmoEE92D1xdakA1z_i-wvi0x7sknZY3a1TbZZNWeT4hSn112yKmoAHEKMzMIzevRSepBRaCGAgI5Ar9U5XKG8CInN/s768/IMG_9378.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgarkRsVH0gxoLHFOM9umMNotvoOMiOA0RmxJsBTGllklN5NTMiJFUqrMYB49wUrjXUgMlIBEGrQGjjzpNWXNqHDfR9GNw9sdnbzvIsmoEE92D1xdakA1z_i-wvi0x7sknZY3a1TbZZNWeT4hSn112yKmoAHEKMzMIzevRSepBRaCGAgI5Ar9U5XKG8CInN/w480-h640/IMG_9378.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And these came from a specialist in Alpine plants, (another excellent company!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://darcyeverest.co.uk/">D’arcy and Everest</a><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxi_qIdtBKLM3KCrMHa4o2GvTZC1ORfbHLD_AmOeUBMJPEK9TYizIO_XRQKCb43MkUmZMTKrPbVNbyKF5VDS5SBl_lsWLT9XC0JMIFj2HJbhYwTqDJ2kVWJYurq5sCHL7PyE4vUpGkrsroZgmwxJvygcjCjH5YNgeAieiW77jYR4EmQbnZhogBL5zuWNIx/s4032/IMG_0021.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ4fRWmD7Ke9k3wTX9ID0NWD1lUUu_NzjCsm_qjsV56T_oNTnJ5eUp1g0VgeDhGDVLCe2Kbdw75CTpytKci5A4H1nly8QGDkap4C4tbq4ZmLgtKm0Rrf-QuOe1Ocx7gDvEZ8ftCauer4YCBkjIRRkcexYe4gbHonZr_-hWQV5tfJQlcsb3gwv7rKhQAOIL/w480-h640/IMG_0023.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">All is good in the garden!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I hope that you are all having a good Sunday! </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">😁</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDjnnxII0A5kAD5k8OTTHuhko56KMepUF-tPP-KPQXmW7BM2CEkQdtXWUN8t95aW-caFF_2Foy-oKOongpNCg9Aqj4auJDGTk_ckMuVuYERA_CEMe77XQQOZA_76KL08DGTtvDD_5goHtcMCen2VmsuCGSWVZLU8nUuBNBmfKSP8E8mWV5ml6BEDFlR_m/s1668/IMG_9339.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1385" data-original-width="1668" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDjnnxII0A5kAD5k8OTTHuhko56KMepUF-tPP-KPQXmW7BM2CEkQdtXWUN8t95aW-caFF_2Foy-oKOongpNCg9Aqj4auJDGTk_ckMuVuYERA_CEMe77XQQOZA_76KL08DGTtvDD_5goHtcMCen2VmsuCGSWVZLU8nUuBNBmfKSP8E8mWV5ml6BEDFlR_m/w640-h532/IMG_9339.jpeg" width="640" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I love vintage cotton fabric, especially that which is from the 1930s/1940s. The designs are lovely and the quality is good considering its age.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJX2jXcM0QbcvtXi5P-wEOx7_Kh_1yWMrC7HB74vwsbLjyM-vmzvQbTfgUK0gwAFYennOfwtB-JR4u-B0qu51cj7_ywahlkD1YgRlXCbHAXDTtjVGHAb65dF9yq7ZXERmTAPPtZCAMmbVOUDcIAMLUV-TyBO6vYjsxPoDqnTbMFdu53CsaHklRKwSWTfN/s2874/IMG_9343.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2141" data-original-width="2874" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJX2jXcM0QbcvtXi5P-wEOx7_Kh_1yWMrC7HB74vwsbLjyM-vmzvQbTfgUK0gwAFYennOfwtB-JR4u-B0qu51cj7_ywahlkD1YgRlXCbHAXDTtjVGHAb65dF9yq7ZXERmTAPPtZCAMmbVOUDcIAMLUV-TyBO6vYjsxPoDqnTbMFdu53CsaHklRKwSWTfN/w640-h476/IMG_9343.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve been putting together small packs for crafters who like smaller pieces but although I still have a reasonable stash, I’ve been looking to replenish that in order to add interest to my eBay items. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQXmtSowO8V5SHRA0m6pw1d_G81fn8Q1ZIfL7Km5pj6yvnNMmEU1jfWAjQWN0Kp_b7rNknOSTvCJC7k4xMJj7GMqg7dMkd7me0Ukgsmhq-53S9mLmNpBGP7YFHe5OBRO7F7PG-l3NQ-0VnBPYd60tOtack9jV0H1aUZTvSh5EKFKVTGyeSyGXGXT039xU6/s3239/IMG_9342.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2514" data-original-width="3239" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQXmtSowO8V5SHRA0m6pw1d_G81fn8Q1ZIfL7Km5pj6yvnNMmEU1jfWAjQWN0Kp_b7rNknOSTvCJC7k4xMJj7GMqg7dMkd7me0Ukgsmhq-53S9mLmNpBGP7YFHe5OBRO7F7PG-l3NQ-0VnBPYd60tOtack9jV0H1aUZTvSh5EKFKVTGyeSyGXGXT039xU6/w640-h496/IMG_9342.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But vintage fabric from that era, although reasonably easy to find in the US, is becoming so very expensive! Feedsack fabric, with its fascinating history, is now costing a fortune! Shipping costs are high and then there’s the VAT to pay. And there is only so much that customers will pay!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQvlNVZ_RtT6njyfhqCyVk5a6Ef7biccrdUPsHDAeD3HBOHQMb2rQags8IVi40n0KDZw2gKgpr2Z3NHQjlaoU9NmH9JKZBP7Kg44NXrZ16T20rjjOq-Ed6vov0PTehBrh917DoIM8f0yFK29rx2SavgNzwC4s-QDUieLLFs8WwALdo32AMNDx50WECqhGF/s1363/IMG_9340.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="1332" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQvlNVZ_RtT6njyfhqCyVk5a6Ef7biccrdUPsHDAeD3HBOHQMb2rQags8IVi40n0KDZw2gKgpr2Z3NHQjlaoU9NmH9JKZBP7Kg44NXrZ16T20rjjOq-Ed6vov0PTehBrh917DoIM8f0yFK29rx2SavgNzwC4s-QDUieLLFs8WwALdo32AMNDx50WECqhGF/w626-h640/IMG_9340.jpeg" width="626" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">These are examples of some of my present stock</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidCwctE5sbO52IToFDGGs2Avj6d2ZO8zPg-9gKk9xLUuplOAMdP2y9_r-IuJUuX15SkmmRbGVNagk9VmX5iPmHny9smWuxpzNlIJCv9syGYZbRfBCgfK2D0XPq7qMYuotvJHk86MqSDd01yOBoDipDwhJJrEZN9iG-WNQDuAVZJsoOLiQvAVq0SJX23ts4/s3643/IMG_9341.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2756" data-original-width="3643" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidCwctE5sbO52IToFDGGs2Avj6d2ZO8zPg-9gKk9xLUuplOAMdP2y9_r-IuJUuX15SkmmRbGVNagk9VmX5iPmHny9smWuxpzNlIJCv9syGYZbRfBCgfK2D0XPq7qMYuotvJHk86MqSDd01yOBoDipDwhJJrEZN9iG-WNQDuAVZJsoOLiQvAVq0SJX23ts4/w640-h484/IMG_9341.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here below are packs that I’ve sold in the past.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRJeUBTa6ALzbYrLRp53X3ECLivQg-bFJtXE3aP0DX_rvpyXoWm5SBhyE4RJFs_kZfG4nZ-G4_ICYMbdrKptpLUBvCaFA5ojjJ1TPTFJJjZsxRPPqFwqLK_fVpLF4NzKA_dsPH4Wv61gKRFURGBhl0inG7xLcD9Jz9S1GeLt3eUyvILo9AOTXjEvMbxzp/s2616/IMG_9345.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2302" data-original-width="2616" height="564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHRJeUBTa6ALzbYrLRp53X3ECLivQg-bFJtXE3aP0DX_rvpyXoWm5SBhyE4RJFs_kZfG4nZ-G4_ICYMbdrKptpLUBvCaFA5ojjJ1TPTFJJjZsxRPPqFwqLK_fVpLF4NzKA_dsPH4Wv61gKRFURGBhl0inG7xLcD9Jz9S1GeLt3eUyvILo9AOTXjEvMbxzp/w640-h564/IMG_9345.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1443" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3kWtBN7snM7a6B5HWmT2iD5PtfYIShX8R8IHFjdMo3kCygpx-8xSWi8IUTaFrbNu6cG9JTshe5rFZY-WC1a6m6x5hMRx9oq0P7WH-OGa0Dp7QABbikfEetxm_b6RKkTzDHcCTgYUnQYbkI4HFPhS9NJ4C3uWDai2KywqDgpljUMnibwH4M1dcNab3Nxsk/w640-h638/IMG_9352.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-38008167851840364992023-09-17T12:17:00.006+01:002023-09-17T12:19:57.539+01:00Ponds!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0RQLdO2V694jGx3T2MZ6zFe975Ya-a1Rhnv3RelI7zsh1Le854FEVljrIp_izYL2wjhfbFEbeKNgU4v8IyBeGifZUSztGHllp7UxgnwkgsVEUdgYwQ78g-MCcGlcCttA6pLp0_V4G02qpTs7mYR8YcP9EcTLxP9yT5-CYzl_RPO_eu4uHOtNl0hCYv7sz/s4032/IMG_3134.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0RQLdO2V694jGx3T2MZ6zFe975Ya-a1Rhnv3RelI7zsh1Le854FEVljrIp_izYL2wjhfbFEbeKNgU4v8IyBeGifZUSztGHllp7UxgnwkgsVEUdgYwQ78g-MCcGlcCttA6pLp0_V4G02qpTs7mYR8YcP9EcTLxP9yT5-CYzl_RPO_eu4uHOtNl0hCYv7sz/w480-h640/IMG_3134.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I have terrible pond envy! My son in law has been making a pond and I’m so excited for him as I know that it will bring him and his family such pleasure!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">We left behind such a lovely pond when we moved…well we couldn’t take it with us, could we? 😂 It was beautiful and just how we wanted it to be. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">Within a few months of it ‘being born’, the wildlife came: frogs, toads, newts, grass snakes, dragonflies, damsel flies, you name it! The birds came to drink and every morning afternoon and evening, we would meet there for a drink and a catch up. It was one of the successes of lockdown. One morning, we sat quietly and watched a Firecrest drinking there and, one afternoon, we watched as a grass snake had a leisurely swim. Attracting the newts was a joyful moment too!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4pobcvzKXX_4zKX4A8hDYNfHoHFbeZpW9LsYZAKjr-AYmPgs4ZYWdQOfYfPjjPw2vl-0bQBg0eDYYLLZ7IJ76dsecgeE4-XfV5tqhqlOPYkKOKO5iiN0egQsap9kzhOZJfY44RPoDDcvffydcZC6YKVx-hhWhSXBBE4fFSXme5WA28Q3MUQLpaDjZfQxY/s1578/IMG_9247.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1215" data-original-width="1578" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4pobcvzKXX_4zKX4A8hDYNfHoHFbeZpW9LsYZAKjr-AYmPgs4ZYWdQOfYfPjjPw2vl-0bQBg0eDYYLLZ7IJ76dsecgeE4-XfV5tqhqlOPYkKOKO5iiN0egQsap9kzhOZJfY44RPoDDcvffydcZC6YKVx-hhWhSXBBE4fFSXme5WA28Q3MUQLpaDjZfQxY/w640-h492/IMG_9247.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: left;">I also learned an awful lot about pond plants and started to have my favourites: Frogbit and Water Soldiers! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqyolry56PO_jNR60XUG62P4qF7COqFyvkaMSo9q4c0aaBL-0ZhBh6EHxd05nH6J40qlwla9OuzZN91zlq04wwu74eHPldbueE8AEatJmr4NvJUuoyhv_AxaqZJmHJhROwQ7rrlWUcY3DbOvcy5kQLyLnjSaLrT9z8iIe3q16sgkAeu3HjnXU76A_wvaz3/s640/IMG_8860.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqyolry56PO_jNR60XUG62P4qF7COqFyvkaMSo9q4c0aaBL-0ZhBh6EHxd05nH6J40qlwla9OuzZN91zlq04wwu74eHPldbueE8AEatJmr4NvJUuoyhv_AxaqZJmHJhROwQ7rrlWUcY3DbOvcy5kQLyLnjSaLrT9z8iIe3q16sgkAeu3HjnXU76A_wvaz3/w640-h480/IMG_8860.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">We had to move because of my health and as Terry often says, ‘ We’ve had the pleasure of it, Sal, and we have the memories and the photos.’ </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-NzxIRFQDc5qSAevEWcdUKVkIl3bY7vpmub1-NQl-5tOoxTJUoLJ-hTx4P-E2gPswcDtsLlNYqpgz2X0Q4xz-f9YD0RR8abcFk1RB-ZeQZV-mMxv_ZAelaOcjSLVTAistppKzYD-BIk6Na4QGZ3j0qjpNdhV3wJ9gPAS-aKmvC9mJfDXTZ4uMNRUR_0f3/w480-h640/IMG_3131.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">When we went to Toby’s reclamation, recently, I spotted an old enamel container …and no prizes for guessing what I’ve done with that….</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7b76iCXXJ86FDnxlcxp-6FdQU4Tqe4NLrA70JUS7sb4825-mGUtxugs9ZyAEWkRYDN6Jwu5lop0CDXQbPihBhWRW1eAGBDsHRQ8rJ08ABMpX8MIteBlad1MDw2_-aJfMNsA9mMk4VokbPvu7a0MWfgaa62GI-A8PPZPZd8Vryoc69Tfhsob-nMGGoMT1S/s4032/IMG_3107.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7b76iCXXJ86FDnxlcxp-6FdQU4Tqe4NLrA70JUS7sb4825-mGUtxugs9ZyAEWkRYDN6Jwu5lop0CDXQbPihBhWRW1eAGBDsHRQ8rJ08ABMpX8MIteBlad1MDw2_-aJfMNsA9mMk4VokbPvu7a0MWfgaa62GI-A8PPZPZd8Vryoc69Tfhsob-nMGGoMT1S/w480-h640/IMG_3107.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">And then, last week, I was contemplating buying another large tin bath to make a third container pond. I’d stupidly left behind the tin bath I’d previously owned, when we moved. They aren’t cheap but I love to use anything old in the garden. And then I discovered that we had two very large containers that were sitting doing nothing! I hate plastic in a garden! 😱 but I thought I’d give it a go and see what I could do.</span></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiukDWQP9X2oxiePIoQ1ljAlTF1qcGCzDir5G0oo6ixdIIlrfZqAGnaDsVDUFdXXsS2WbBeFl36GeUzCZ32QXBMiPrMtbwJkq4t07In79tAdskEg2kxCl3fq3oj064DkPGIbxqEqTv0YgrJ5tBC1AGV8vzkGCuLtJCUotroJw-aRCTSO8UQnXO395hnXeUN/s4032/IMG_3108.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiukDWQP9X2oxiePIoQ1ljAlTF1qcGCzDir5G0oo6ixdIIlrfZqAGnaDsVDUFdXXsS2WbBeFl36GeUzCZ32QXBMiPrMtbwJkq4t07In79tAdskEg2kxCl3fq3oj064DkPGIbxqEqTv0YgrJ5tBC1AGV8vzkGCuLtJCUotroJw-aRCTSO8UQnXO395hnXeUN/w480-h640/IMG_3108.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve been gathering some more pond plants…the plants are sitting, temporarily, until I decide exactly how to position them…and also I need to think about how to hide as much of the plastic as I can. I might even revert to the tin bath idea! We shall see!</span></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg_rwX720U4AxNJUJ79dgpqmgXiVbIG4PKlGCh2TcosWEs-Lx9oUKGLoD3lTSZfn2AYhWDQgRHls0WXR3FEIoA-QBN2ngq-aUfHHFzv6-eh2Zi6KfOhNkVglBoUqXO9sXBdrI2zSRhrxioHRW55Guv_v7dwD-KJFUNs7cshThINeYMcaduZ-j4pmY0j9Sc/s4032/IMG_3146.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg_rwX720U4AxNJUJ79dgpqmgXiVbIG4PKlGCh2TcosWEs-Lx9oUKGLoD3lTSZfn2AYhWDQgRHls0WXR3FEIoA-QBN2ngq-aUfHHFzv6-eh2Zi6KfOhNkVglBoUqXO9sXBdrI2zSRhrxioHRW55Guv_v7dwD-KJFUNs7cshThINeYMcaduZ-j4pmY0j9Sc/w640-h480/IMG_3146.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRqG8YZpK_dxVVMoOdw9Nis2HWAVF-QsCX-tnfZwuAcrMJDxBid86gfUtY9t6TI6C0pxGhcH58aLppH1FdRfKBwEm2pyIZHBlW5Zb5KMSsbkmcTS4daXGHZmEvfcJkJh9bCG3c0OE8kdazrJD2cE99h8LU-iLI2g4O2NVHZh9HZYu6FqLliA7jTc52Fv6K/s4032/IMG_3147.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRqG8YZpK_dxVVMoOdw9Nis2HWAVF-QsCX-tnfZwuAcrMJDxBid86gfUtY9t6TI6C0pxGhcH58aLppH1FdRfKBwEm2pyIZHBlW5Zb5KMSsbkmcTS4daXGHZmEvfcJkJh9bCG3c0OE8kdazrJD2cE99h8LU-iLI2g4O2NVHZh9HZYu6FqLliA7jTc52Fv6K/w640-h480/IMG_3147.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meanwhile, yesterday, we went back to this little nursery…</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4rdPUqo-kyo5Du48mLUvTrlsSnF52CSIKm3U76QvORig1HifLthi2Jumm9J_AoaaeJclZ_xVnLGreZQgTVIN8QxlK_RXqCfNXhYizqB5grT4qWytRLpD90vbAV_Z0nrS50fEkhyzO04PpWwJbCKWVhK0MzMO1fAfEe6_U6h8Xztb-gnGhY75oPt4zBNe0/s3772/IMG_3141.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3772" data-original-width="3005" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4rdPUqo-kyo5Du48mLUvTrlsSnF52CSIKm3U76QvORig1HifLthi2Jumm9J_AoaaeJclZ_xVnLGreZQgTVIN8QxlK_RXqCfNXhYizqB5grT4qWytRLpD90vbAV_Z0nrS50fEkhyzO04PpWwJbCKWVhK0MzMO1fAfEe6_U6h8Xztb-gnGhY75oPt4zBNe0/w510-h640/IMG_3141.jpeg" width="510" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>What I like about it here, is that it’s more a nursery than a large garden centre. Plants are the priority!</span><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5CcU0zH0DiXjWK0ukok2NCF6bdwWQ-Sx2pBIYxgJyQRlcj5O8cnVXHb80huAEMtygMqu-moiBoWThVq_ID0vPoQDlBwZwsfmHxY20yL20qoMlWy9i_aVVfTE7UgsA-n0SnW8dvN9PKrINtqWmbcibpkDQb1lrPrKtVELMVwb-15SJvnYQqD6gJG3Rr0mT/s3810/IMG_3142.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3810" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5CcU0zH0DiXjWK0ukok2NCF6bdwWQ-Sx2pBIYxgJyQRlcj5O8cnVXHb80huAEMtygMqu-moiBoWThVq_ID0vPoQDlBwZwsfmHxY20yL20qoMlWy9i_aVVfTE7UgsA-n0SnW8dvN9PKrINtqWmbcibpkDQb1lrPrKtVELMVwb-15SJvnYQqD6gJG3Rr0mT/w508-h640/IMG_3142.jpeg" width="508" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>It’s also a pleasant drive through the South Devon countryside.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimqEgjwwBzNiXJTvtlcn4gDr5wtdA1IjmJrOT4RJyzNpW_Jjadv-aEJg3mhN1IuzkYBl86p3Sie-VhYI5M9ORgXU5UC1eqRcynOZPwjcSklCDqwe5kOXRg8pzVA0Xdv8PsvqRL-bFpQtyWl3CybTbnQ8ZRQZrCma7hVBItJirXtFJexep2iTRMSta0a92v/s4032/IMG_3143.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimqEgjwwBzNiXJTvtlcn4gDr5wtdA1IjmJrOT4RJyzNpW_Jjadv-aEJg3mhN1IuzkYBl86p3Sie-VhYI5M9ORgXU5UC1eqRcynOZPwjcSklCDqwe5kOXRg8pzVA0Xdv8PsvqRL-bFpQtyWl3CybTbnQ8ZRQZrCma7hVBItJirXtFJexep2iTRMSta0a92v/w640-h480/IMG_3143.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It has a small coffee area…</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfsTCq-tQVB-p3QSZ_B408paYTyMPyPbdhLQ3_644KwXoHHiewkhmFrLZ17jiOLKftoeP2mKXWDHAOX1_-uOtykoHMP2lOFYITnSt1wiQTHvAcfy0DeSGVFifAFJixZRYdrhIk4R1OrdOeYeATQqDl1wyWgEzg-EYKECGLfpqmCbh1iGpbSWeUPf1lm1VM/s4032/IMG_3139.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfsTCq-tQVB-p3QSZ_B408paYTyMPyPbdhLQ3_644KwXoHHiewkhmFrLZ17jiOLKftoeP2mKXWDHAOX1_-uOtykoHMP2lOFYITnSt1wiQTHvAcfy0DeSGVFifAFJixZRYdrhIk4R1OrdOeYeATQqDl1wyWgEzg-EYKECGLfpqmCbh1iGpbSWeUPf1lm1VM/w640-h480/IMG_3139.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">We don’t usually stop for coffee when we are fairly close to home but, in this instance, we did, and right near to me, just outside the window, was this lovely fig tree…</span></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3rVbnrZNZksQPhEt6B_iPu0oOB05Wt_JL8jCqv55ZfVL8S70bRvNZaq-RV3ePlmNb-LnSOQ0X23Kjzmlj21h8o99N433JouyrD8zuxSoE1rPa_SjDOOORlc7saDE-HPVtJUqOfMrv8B3TfF3Nf0azfIs6Ywi4wFMvcJOhFlpOJVPPFS3isiklfiifmfNH/s4032/IMG_3140.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3rVbnrZNZksQPhEt6B_iPu0oOB05Wt_JL8jCqv55ZfVL8S70bRvNZaq-RV3ePlmNb-LnSOQ0X23Kjzmlj21h8o99N433JouyrD8zuxSoE1rPa_SjDOOORlc7saDE-HPVtJUqOfMrv8B3TfF3Nf0azfIs6Ywi4wFMvcJOhFlpOJVPPFS3isiklfiifmfNH/w480-h640/IMG_3140.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>The reason that I wanted to return to this nursery was that they had loads of these, </span><span>‘Creeping Jenny’ (Lysimacchia nummularia) plants! They had also made up hanging baskets with these included and they looked really beautiful.</span></span></div><p><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRwtbUz5L2RdTj7MLkfWemHmykRSTHvIrlvNBlMeCJUIf1yGEDnZKguIpxmHonZTz_1YTnzkzXYzjs8SmFTXyTbTJKBTOBXC2iUWfWa3cdRCRbf01TgZ5BqcslEzR2v8wO5uRfZeodWXc1JKOmj5STDbqfwRtN1DXflUwmEEIYujDozeDBTY7Q57Cjm-lJ/s1668/IMG_9224.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1668" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRwtbUz5L2RdTj7MLkfWemHmykRSTHvIrlvNBlMeCJUIf1yGEDnZKguIpxmHonZTz_1YTnzkzXYzjs8SmFTXyTbTJKBTOBXC2iUWfWa3cdRCRbf01TgZ5BqcslEzR2v8wO5uRfZeodWXc1JKOmj5STDbqfwRtN1DXflUwmEEIYujDozeDBTY7Q57Cjm-lJ/w640-h424/IMG_9224.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I wanted them to use as a pond ‘marginal’ and also to break up the black plastic. It’s not a true pond plant but it does happily scramble about in the shallows and over the edge. But the big plus about the plants that I picked up, was that there were roots all along the plants, so I can propagate my own plants too.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwWD-iBqbGM5CfH_sbiBUUs69cxFU1VCQgi1KBg_lkyf0GCwzCFtkdYPDU8hc1Ywyc_K_XltzJ-HXBYxonLsmEXT-SeZFGdv0ShCRjEd_9ykQ_rtPxUlnG870ic5B4y28L1Q66AWrYmGh61HKgR4YwpJ2UpJQWcFH47rWATQbtNlxKskAszDHvzAXeM3b2/s4032/IMG_3135.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwWD-iBqbGM5CfH_sbiBUUs69cxFU1VCQgi1KBg_lkyf0GCwzCFtkdYPDU8hc1Ywyc_K_XltzJ-HXBYxonLsmEXT-SeZFGdv0ShCRjEd_9ykQ_rtPxUlnG870ic5B4y28L1Q66AWrYmGh61HKgR4YwpJ2UpJQWcFH47rWATQbtNlxKskAszDHvzAXeM3b2/w480-h640/IMG_3135.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I hope that everyone is having a good weekend. We had a storm in the night and at one point it was directly above us; I woke with a start and almost shot out of bed as I thought something had exploded…scary stuff! We are bleary eyed today! 😱</span></div><br /></div>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772532068403786265.post-9008217961388583682023-09-16T09:22:00.003+01:002023-09-16T09:22:29.381+01:00Things definitely happen for the best!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif81npvLYgS60P5ljyU9ea2auNJXmrrGBg0Ie3nmi1b7zSeQpE1d0lme15mnGHqio8mV9TeArK7mxgCcFIN7wz31M-O_ErEOaur64PSyCxt92yKqWpmCXJX_4k-VIgnr0E2rNNHXVK5no2X1TdkgYlQxj5v-RGM6DlQZxQFyRwNhVmDENKGPd_KpH7Iifl/s1853/IMG_9230.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1853" data-original-width="1668" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif81npvLYgS60P5ljyU9ea2auNJXmrrGBg0Ie3nmi1b7zSeQpE1d0lme15mnGHqio8mV9TeArK7mxgCcFIN7wz31M-O_ErEOaur64PSyCxt92yKqWpmCXJX_4k-VIgnr0E2rNNHXVK5no2X1TdkgYlQxj5v-RGM6DlQZxQFyRwNhVmDENKGPd_KpH7Iifl/w576-h640/IMG_9230.jpeg" width="576" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yes they do!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Recently, I ordered some pond plants on eBay. Part of the order was a pack of three plants which arrived in a dreadful state: </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">One plant was mostly dead, very yellow and fit for the bin. Another consisted of one leaf…no stem, no roots, just a leaf. LOL! The third was barely passable. All three were nothing like advertised in the seller’s photo.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">And so, because pond plants aren’t cheap, I messaged the seller and complained, in the nicest possible way, of course.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6uVn5R6jFHBxy_P5vjdfp-BQb8AktQrA5qv-laubObaLh1MWFnXNdEm_Gx99oYTt4p_btiBOJ47ZY0gY3H7-NQr-64oxGt2Lrnnr9G7xStxXqqGd7bNqUy9NmOyuadPMviClTA9O5zKGWioyeC24hj6dkvc8LXguybAgP6Wdi564T8IK9vXSE9TxUxk5W/s1258/IMG_9219.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="1258" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6uVn5R6jFHBxy_P5vjdfp-BQb8AktQrA5qv-laubObaLh1MWFnXNdEm_Gx99oYTt4p_btiBOJ47ZY0gY3H7-NQr-64oxGt2Lrnnr9G7xStxXqqGd7bNqUy9NmOyuadPMviClTA9O5zKGWioyeC24hj6dkvc8LXguybAgP6Wdi564T8IK9vXSE9TxUxk5W/s320/IMG_9219.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">A day later, I received a message to say that they would re-send them. This took almost a week as I had to remind them…and then I received a message from the delivery people to say that my plants had been delivered through my letter box! Well, you can guess…they were nowhere near my letter box and I read the message and realised that the address on the shipping details…was not even mine! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I picked up the phone and spoke to a somewhat efficious woman, who said, ‘Well, maybe the package will eventually get to you…’</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw9Ps3zwZxIAdvwHd5WXXHoCXD0NMKVuCrF9u3eXMjmp_TmDs1D8KUNAAqdd38hHtkcMAJsqJ213BJbw-CDltDvy30rmZdAD0z4SUrSIWIlaax61lpIT1lGCtrdyGPPF4AOVq8tklqXUcjDezd6vKhrUIdioINQzCm-7ykHwPeJSpgX8cooi-TdMQDM2JN/s1653/IMG_9218.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1243" data-original-width="1653" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw9Ps3zwZxIAdvwHd5WXXHoCXD0NMKVuCrF9u3eXMjmp_TmDs1D8KUNAAqdd38hHtkcMAJsqJ213BJbw-CDltDvy30rmZdAD0z4SUrSIWIlaax61lpIT1lGCtrdyGPPF4AOVq8tklqXUcjDezd6vKhrUIdioINQzCm-7ykHwPeJSpgX8cooi-TdMQDM2JN/s320/IMG_9218.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ummm…well seeing as my correct address was not on the package, I don’t know how she worked that out unless the plants were psychic and could get up and walk. So I said that the mistake was clearly at their end and please could they re-send. She reluctantly said they would sort it out. I came off the phone not feeling that confident and so I decided to also message them on eBay as well. I received a message the following day to say that they would resend.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">A few days after that came the message from the delivery company to say that my package had been delivered, yet again, through my letter box! 😂🤣😫</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhILc5gh6nm5Uc5lKzVln3HBWkEF-s7o1HzPw30onPgjYxWL3vjXOUx5Oq6FoudCn14M8iPNftZIFneonaBf1X2136MJmKTE9Ng6ZrkuNRQoWNe3PC3yrFEijuZsltCAzbrNgX-Dj1wV4BJ6h6-tg3CFcC4-hKI0qRqLHp3HpLHNUrnmazH0sDvLIdUAI4C/s1633/IMG_9223.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1288" data-original-width="1633" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhILc5gh6nm5Uc5lKzVln3HBWkEF-s7o1HzPw30onPgjYxWL3vjXOUx5Oq6FoudCn14M8iPNftZIFneonaBf1X2136MJmKTE9Ng6ZrkuNRQoWNe3PC3yrFEijuZsltCAzbrNgX-Dj1wV4BJ6h6-tg3CFcC4-hKI0qRqLHp3HpLHNUrnmazH0sDvLIdUAI4C/s320/IMG_9223.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">You can guess, can’t you? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yep…so now, someone, somewhere, has received two packages, meant for me, with pond plants in them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I was going around in circles by now and so I messaged the seller, yet again, saying that surely it wasn’t difficult to write a customer’s address correctly… and then I asked for an immediate refund. The next day, I received that refund with an apology. But I don’t think they really cared one little bit!</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvLm45jwehh6ZUAhso2kjluDneUMIZq9GTGKJ7iF6aiIXig6steLpBTv-K0u09C3tlF7ept6fCm9Yhrq4U9wcq6RdocM-EZr0Viv5nnVYud-tNPTq0iMELAiiEr63pLLRSUK4EwDUf6zEhIFvz7fwLYsjyTd8zHVr0e8vz8xiTLwIbxGCzmo4yguCti4B/s1811/IMG_9221.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1811" data-original-width="1587" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvLm45jwehh6ZUAhso2kjluDneUMIZq9GTGKJ7iF6aiIXig6steLpBTv-K0u09C3tlF7ept6fCm9Yhrq4U9wcq6RdocM-EZr0Viv5nnVYud-tNPTq0iMELAiiEr63pLLRSUK4EwDUf6zEhIFvz7fwLYsjyTd8zHVr0e8vz8xiTLwIbxGCzmo4yguCti4B/s320/IMG_9221.jpeg" width="280" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’d now wasted two weeks of my life and I was losing the will to live. I wanted the plants and so I searched online; what I wanted was out of stock at various pond plant suppliers. However, I eventually came across a supplier…and crossed my fingers that this time, everything would, work out ok. </span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTWevDo2fe4VjrSOThPKgWaHr8TKrD7FnaQWpfRt-y2zakKp_smVPsy0VFbHz2IrlxOWQBH7JloNM6WDqP18tqne15SxzWea-ZCGgc4ztU-gBYQcqQ2vWvzN407dGkITVX04BeYznUDi7X9KR2TdqauOyOPl4aSsEsPwN2X2C3OX6kH0biwv5FmiCrzdWk/s1668/IMG_9228.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1668" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTWevDo2fe4VjrSOThPKgWaHr8TKrD7FnaQWpfRt-y2zakKp_smVPsy0VFbHz2IrlxOWQBH7JloNM6WDqP18tqne15SxzWea-ZCGgc4ztU-gBYQcqQ2vWvzN407dGkITVX04BeYznUDi7X9KR2TdqauOyOPl4aSsEsPwN2X2C3OX6kH0biwv5FmiCrzdWk/s320/IMG_9228.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I placed my order with them at 10am this Weds, and on Thurs morning, the plants were with me!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I wasn’t used to this! What amazing service! So I went back to their site, and as I’m in the middle of making another container pond, (this time a larger one), I ordered some more.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yesterday morning, they arrived! Well, what can I say?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HvQkUjHs5R1zobQQMMAzjhXqf6UGKLMNqkYewkCfd4a-kEOYupLr6-H4pFSiLoofV3JV7fR2ZSOeGhzPCVXP_pEHAPYIzz163VduGFfS1vL3-F7anWT5uGbw6yj71qhimFSunpMJH_2HorQDiV99dbmGKQnbh_swrSFfzLYonzms1H5W_FTi-cB5k2vH/s1656/IMG_9220.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1101" data-original-width="1656" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HvQkUjHs5R1zobQQMMAzjhXqf6UGKLMNqkYewkCfd4a-kEOYupLr6-H4pFSiLoofV3JV7fR2ZSOeGhzPCVXP_pEHAPYIzz163VduGFfS1vL3-F7anWT5uGbw6yj71qhimFSunpMJH_2HorQDiV99dbmGKQnbh_swrSFfzLYonzms1H5W_FTi-cB5k2vH/s320/IMG_9220.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">It just shows that it CAN be done! That is service at its best and how it should be! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I emailed the company expressing my delight. Not only had I received a very speedy delivery but the plants are superb. And I also left a review on their Facebook page..and they replied to that saying it meant so much to them! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I won’t be going anywhere else for my pond plants in the future, that’s for sure!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://pondplantgrowersdirect.co.uk/">This</a> is their website. I can’t recommend them highly enough! </span></p><p></p><p><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjTEJbsFJf65Eu5H-Wupxax9ejlpGjKDFNDh6Bw8wc-ceJuhMvMVgWzMg-VLqY9ylyjsyCE8T5HzQnpOHjb7F76VJ4YBIdZqBB_DJvE3drVYRVEB1txZqQcKtdbEZ5ZROJoZxnacI_4FfurQEFvBcQsU_y2eYCPSXpxlLmot1oAA07OBhyVpfv2edOdzRa/s1778/IMG_9231.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1778" data-original-width="1668" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjTEJbsFJf65Eu5H-Wupxax9ejlpGjKDFNDh6Bw8wc-ceJuhMvMVgWzMg-VLqY9ylyjsyCE8T5HzQnpOHjb7F76VJ4YBIdZqBB_DJvE3drVYRVEB1txZqQcKtdbEZ5ZROJoZxnacI_4FfurQEFvBcQsU_y2eYCPSXpxlLmot1oAA07OBhyVpfv2edOdzRa/w600-h640/IMG_9231.jpeg" width="600" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10991496263250729580noreply@blogger.com6