Hi! Come on in…

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“…It’s so good to see you.
I’ll take your coat and hang it over the door to dry, and put your brollie in the sink.

Have a seat; oh don’t mind Pepsi, she just likes to say hello; yes a wet nose is a bit of a shock! I’m used to her and don’t mind, she’ll get back on her bed in a moment.
What a change in the weather!

Would you like a cup of tea today? It might warm you up! Although I do have the heating on.
I’ll go make our drinks and put some biscuits out. No I didn’t bake them, as one of my sisters in law says, I don’t know how to bake but I do know how to shop”

While I am in the kitchen I can hear you talking to Pepsi, I bet her ears are alert and she will be tilting her head to one side and then the other. Dogs are such good company.

“How’s the family?”

We chat for a while about our families yours are well as are mine, which we are both thankful for. I tell you about my friend who’s mother has only a few weeks left to live. I wish I could do something but all you can do is keep in touch. I send her texts to let her know that I am thinking of her.

You have brought me some of your latest makes and I am inspired as always. I thank you for the postcard that arrived last week; I love having a piece of your art on my wall.

“I have signed up for a stitched postcard challenge with the theme Celebration.”

I show you what I am going to try to do we talk about the different ways I could approach it and we begin to brainstorm some ideas for you, which makes us laugh.
I saw some Christmas things in a supermarket at the weekend and it has made me think about something I have on my mind.

“Do you think anyone would be interested in a Christmas decoration swap? Like Sian’s Great Big Swap of Very Small Things? I was thinking, something small to hang on the tree.
I’ll ask on my blog even though that feels scary, what if no one is interested? Oh I know you will be and we will do it anyway…

Oh! Is that the time already?
It has stopped raining thank goodness.
Next month I thought it would be nice to go over to the garden centre about 5 miles from here, they will have finished their Christmas display stands and they are always worth a look, we can have coffee in their restaurant Oh! and we can look in the craft department.
I know; there was a time when garden centres sold plants!

Thank you for coming, stay safe.
Oh and 27th of October is a Sunday, is that OK for you?”

With thanks to Abi for this lovely idea of sharing a virtual cup of tea and a catch up once a month.

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If you are interested in a Christmas Tree Decoration Swap leave me a note in a comment? Thanks.

Summer Scavenger Hunt 2013

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…Completed

It hardly seems possible that the Scavenger Hunt finishes today.Thank you Rinda for another fun time taking a look around my locality.
The easiest item for me to find was number six, someone/thing napping…my greyhound, that’s what she does best.
The most difficult was number 13, a fence…nothing ‘quite right’ for me.
The most fun was number 15, a police vehicle…me trying to look invisible.
And the most surprising was number 18, the windmill… who would have thought that this windmill has been here since 1317 just 11 miles from my home and I would never have seen it but for the Scavenger Hunt.

I put my finds into a slide show on Flickr, I hope you like them Here is the link

I am so looking forward to seeing everyones finds here over the weekend

Good Luck in the draw everyone.

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Simply a Moment

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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

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Thank you Alexa.