Happenings

A lovely long summer holiday (the benefit of moving counties - 2 extra weeks!) is drawing to an end. Much of the time has been spent on a complete overhaul of my new classroom - 12 days so far and with at least two more planned during this last week. All worth it though as it's so much more organised and ready for all of the lovely new little ones to come in and enjoy it in a week's time. It's not all been work work work though...

Much fun with the nieces and nephew and my lovely mama...

A lovely weekend chasing logs (and a little crafting thrown in of course) with my old friend Carrie and her husband Giles...

And as for house goings on, well we are now truly ready for winter with two lovely log burners fitted and working (and in action today on this rather miserable bank holiday in, uhhum, August). With some gorgeous bespoke book shelves and a TV cabinet in the making its almost time to get those tester pots in and start really thinking about wall colour for the sitting room. I am so excited (and a little nervous) to finally be able to paint walls - out with the magnolia and in with the colour I say!

Hope you're making the most of the "summer" bank holiday everyone. (We are in full sofa, fire and film mode, perhaps not making the most of it but certainly enjoying it.)

S. x

Holiday

A long weekend away with my love in Ireland, exploring, eating, lying in and generally relaxing.
Lovely food, beautiful surroundings, stunning coast, day dreams of abandoned houses becoming holiday homes and learning about lichen.

Short but sweet: Thank you so much Will and Mary for sharing your amazing home (and for introducing us to soda bread-yum yum!)

Hope you're all enjoying a bit of R&R this summer.
S. x

Garden Love

Over the last month or so we've been spending a lot of our weekends in the garden, generally keeping on top of the weeds and also creating our fire-pit which is also our BBQ. We love it! Every Friday and/or Saturday evening is BBQ time these days and with the addition of my old hammock its most definitely my favourite reading spot too. We went up the lane to 'forage' for the bark after the forestry commission had finished clearing a load of pines - love a bit of free stuff for half an hour's work (and we got to test out Sam's 4x4 driving skills!)

Elsewhere in the garden, things are growing happily on their own and aside from keeping on top of the a fore mentioned weeds and bracken (many many, lots and lots but very therapeutic to pull up) and mowing the lawn, we're pretty much letting it do its thing and discovering the already established plants that are turning up all over the place, much to our delight and without any effort on our part.

Oh, and the cat seems pretty happy too.

Have a good week everyone.
S. x