Friday 27 December 2013

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!

Tuesday 17 December 2013

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!

Sunday 15 December 2013

Funky trees........

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

 






 
Different, huh?! 
 
And this one's bonkers!! - (Broccoli!) -
 


Saturday 14 December 2013

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

Wednesday 31 July 2013

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 -
 
 
 
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!