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Yearly Archives: 2015
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year
I can’t believe we are nearly at the end of 2015: the year has flown by as, alongside what passes for normal family life around here, we’ve also been busy with some major works on our garden which I’m hoping to … Continue reading
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Paris
I was going to write this post last week but simply ran out of time: it was going to be about our trip to Paris only three weeks ago, when we showed our children the delights of this beautiful city and reminisced about … Continue reading
Posted in Out & About
Tagged eiffel tower, louvre, notre dame, paris
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Shortlist #12: Jugs
As I recently mentioned, one of my favourite pastimes during the summer months is picking a bunch of flowers for the house from the garden. With the exception of the sweet peas, which I tend to arrange as they are, … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, Interiors, Shortlists
Tagged ammi majus, anthropologie, arrangement, flowers, graham & green, homegrown, john lewis, jug, nkuku, oka, plum & ashby
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This Year’s Veg
A little while ago, Marshalls very kindly offered to send me some of their new vegetable seed varieties to try out in the garden this year; I confess to leaping at the chance as it seemed like a perfect opportunity to get out of a seed-buying … Continue reading
Cut Flowers
The flower beds in the vegetable garden are looking great right now; they are full of colour and there are plenty of blooms for both the bees to savour and for us to enjoy indoors. We haven’t managed to do much sowing of annual flowers … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, My Place
Tagged alchemilla mollis, ammi majus, astrantia buckland, astrantia moulin rouge, centaurea cyanus, cirsium rivulare atropupureum, cornflower, cut flowers, cutting garden, geum totally tangerine, nepeta six hills giant, salvia viridis, sweet peas, sweet william
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An Unplanned Hiatus
I honestly can’t believe that it has been quite so long since my last post. I’m not sure how I managed to drop the blogging ball quite so spectacularly but somehow I did. I blame myriad projects around the house and garden … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs & Blogging, My Place
Tagged labradoodle, puppy
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Snowdrops
We followed the cutest little boy into school the other day. Trailing a short distance behind his Mum and brothers, he was walking very slowly as he concentrated hard on carrying a tiny vase filled with snowdrops: a gift for his … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, Interiors
Tagged galanthus nivalis, rhs, snowdrops
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Before & After: Master Bedroom
Better late than never, but I’m finally here with pictures of our master bedroom makeover, now that all those little paint jobs that I kept meaning to do – but never quite got around to doing – are complete. This was … Continue reading
Posted in Interiors, My Place, Uncategorized
Tagged advent curtain pole, chandelier, coromandel quilt, feather & black, joanna, just poles, linwood, Little Greene, loire bed, master bedroom, oka, redecorate, sakura, shirting
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