On the fifteenth of the month, Alexa at Trimming the Sails invites us to stop and share a moment from our day.

15th September 2013

“Oh! This is lovely, so light and airy.” I say as I look around the room as we wait to be seated.
“I love how the two levels are separated with the glass-panelled windows either side of the steps. The carpet’s nice, a kind of coffee colour with tiny red squares, I like it and it’s the kind of colours that wouldn’t show dog paws easily!” Reality creeping in for a moment.
“The wood-burning stove at the other end of the room looks cosy, a bit too warm for me at the moment” I say hoping we will be by the window.

“What’s the wallpaper about then”? He asks as we sit down.
“It’s boutique I think, large pattern, it makes a statement, Oh! look at the curtains, Peacocks!” I say as I peer a bit closer to check.
The colours are not bright though; they are muted dark blue, navy and cream maybe a bit of gold around the feathers. They are heavy and gorgeous.

“Who would put horses on wall paper and then put it on a wall?” he begins but I interrupt before the rest of his observations come pouring forth.
The wallpaper is a repeating square design. The squares are picture frames, each slightly different in size and each has a horse and its rider depicted around the turn of the century. The overall colours are pale grey and charcoal; it looks a little like pencil sketching.
He will observe that the chairs are not matching in colour, or all the same around each table. He does notice that they are very comfortable though.

“That settee looks very comfortable too but I’m not sure about the colours or the fact that it’s a kind of patchwork,” he grumbles as if I am about to order it for our home. When I told him how that kind of pattern came about he was a bit happier!

The bottom part of the walls are painted in a pale grey, they make the room look so elegant.
We are both looking at the far wall, either side of the fire, “Do you think they are mirrors?” he wonders
“Yes they are” I say, having already checked them out, I can’t bear facing a mirror!

I really love the tables, not too many, various sizes, square, round and oval, not too close together, polished mahogany and no cloths! Perfect. The only things on the tables are the white heavily starched napkins enclosing the cutlery in a fold, a white candle lamp and the cruet.
Plain, simple, understated and elegant.

“Happy Anniversary darling girl, what are you going to order?” He asked
“Oh! a full English breakfast of course” I smiled
“Some things never change.” He said taking my menu.
“No, well that’s a good thing sometimes” I said as I poured my tea “because the other thing that hasn’t changed is, I still love you,
Happy Anniversary husband of twenty nine years” xx

Thank you Alexa.