***the gardens where I work***

inspiration is all around if you look for it......all things have their magical qualities.....being able to really see and not just look is perhaps the key......

double left click to bring up the larger image...it's better big time....

***the day after***

outside the front door are my home grown hanging baskets with my favoutite surfinas (petunias) these smell lovely in the late evening....



the church bar-b-que and all is over for another year.....each year we do the same thing...a day to set up, a day to shop and cook, a day to eat and enjoy the company and a day to pack all away again....so we are completly stuffed....I was going to take loads of photos but with running around like a blue a......d fly I never had a chance as it was I was still washing dishes and the floor at ten o'clock last night....some of the girls helped out but after feeding nearly 60 people, and this was a quiet year, it still takes time. The setting looked great ....bunting, gazebos, brollies, rugs, croquet, three tressle tables with all sorts of rice , pasta, salads, bread, basil toms, new spuds, etc....you get the picture..very pleasant....soooooooooo I will have to just put up a couple of photos of our little cottage instead...and then I will try to get some sewing done...ha ha!
Have also put four loads of washing out...mainly teatowels aprons and tableclothes ....very boring...till soon....



a corner of our kitchen....brought the table from Oz and the meat safe and Brian made the plate dresser shelf from an old pine wardrobe that was too big and heavy to cart everywhere.....30's bread bin ws £1.00 from L'Hospeeeece ...some china came from Oz as well...

some glasses from Oz and L'Hospeeece.......well you never can have enough lol....

this lot is the back up supply....