Something light and refreshing now, please.................

Seem to have eaten nothing but very rich foods for days. Something very light and refreshing tonight I think!

 

Hope you all had a great Christmas. We had a lovely time. Great fun with fake moustaches! -

 

 

You wouldn't want to mess with these two! -

 

Tilly's going, 'Oh, my parents' ! - 

 

More fun too, with a slightly mad board game, Funny Faces, ! -

 



 

Mother-in-law (91!) painted this lovely picture of Ruby -

 

 

Pretty good, I'd say -

 

And I was very pleased to receive this print of Ruby and her brothers from son-in-law -

 

 

Some cold winds recently, but still pretty mild here (much sympathy to those experiencing flooding and power cuts). These marigolds are still going strong in the garden -

 

 

Have a great week!

Lovely Farm / Vintage shop near Ludlow............

Went to Ludlow today and called in on the way at a lovely new Farm Shop, which sells vintage too -

 

They've only just opened, but lots of lovely things already -

 

 

There's a cosy little cafe area - with a woodburner! -

 

 

Well worth a visit, if you're in that area. It's just off the A49, the Leominster to Ludlow road, near the village of Ashford Bowdler.

 

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I found some nice, rustic items in Ludlow -

 

 

Great skies at sunset over Ludlow Castle -

 

 

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Taking our two little grand-daughters to a Christmas Show on Friday. Tilly's 18 months now -

 

 

And Ruby's 3 -

 

 

Have a good week!

Funky trees........

Some cool ideas for alternative Christmas trees HERE   - www.boredpanda.com - like these -

 

 

Different, huh?! 

 

And this one's bonkers!! - (Broccoli!) -

 



Long time no see....................

Soooooo, it's been a while........  There was busyness (vintage unit in shop, family), illness (Mr VTT got pneumonia out of the blue, whisked into hospital - fine now), sadness (we had to cancel summer holiday), tech problems (moved to iPad from laptop; not so easy to insert photos), bit of low-level depression, the perennial 'why am I blogging?', boredom - with my own blog and others', etc, etc.......

 

But just popped by to wish all in Blogland a Happy Christmas / Happy Holidays / Happy Pagan Yule.........Happy "whatever rocks your boat" (!) as I heard someone say the other day.......

 

 

 

Looking a bit festive around here...............

 

 

 

 

 

Cold wind here today, but generally it's pretty mild for the time of year. Some big skies recently - from the bedroom window -

 

Still brightness in the garden -

 

This Nandina plant is a glorious colour -

 

So, hope everyone is happy and well! X

Warm and wet at Womad...........

So - if it's July, it must be Womad - we go every year................ 
 

This year, there were loads of us - daughters, partners, grandchildren............

Cousins enjoying themselves -

 

and chillin' -

 

 

Tilly chillin' -

 

Ruby enjoyed boogie-ing -





 

and Tilly rocked a new hairdo! -

 

 

There was hot sun and rain and camping and food and drink and flags and a fairground - and MUSIC!   The Malawi Mouse Boys were cool -

 

 

 Malawi Mouse Boys 

 

The giant puppets were cool too -

 

 

and the giant flowers -

 

 

Max enjoyed trying to step into the giant bubbles! -

 

 

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Arrived home to find lilies out in the garden - gorgeous scent -

 

 

And lots of butterflies on the Buddleia and Phlox and bees on the lavender -

 

 

 

So now lots of washing to be done before next week - off camping in Normandy :)

 

 

Have a good week!