A Bowl Of Clementines

I just couldn't resist these when I was in town yesterday.

 

I cleaned out the cut glass bowl in the kitchen (which for some reasons was full of boiled sweets, Thai coins and receipts...? What a waste of a pretty bowl!) and popped these beauties in there, along with a few chestnuts and some of my favourite gypsophila.

I'm enjoying the unlikely combination of the festive fruit and the summery flowers :)

 

 

Rob and I are both sickies right now, so we're holed up at home. I'm baking things (which of course only we can eat for fear of spreading germs - darn!) and roasting a few chestnuts to snack upon.

 

Happy Festive Cosiness to you!

 

xxx

 



Bridges and Blooms

Back from an amazing holiday! Really, the Balkans are something else.

I think my favourite place Was this - Mostar. The bridge is absolutely mind-boggling. Something in your mind tells you that it can't possibly stand, can't possibly have held up to people crossing it for almost five hundred years, but it did, until it was shelled 63 times in the war and finally fell in 1993. There are still many stark reminders like this around the city:

Yet, in 2004, the Old Bridge was rebuilt with the stones which had fallen into the river below and is as beautiful as ever!

People are again jumping off every day :)

 

 

The first job on our return was to finish Amelia's wall mural!

 

She loves it!

Today, I've been packaging orders and gently getting back into a normal routine during Amelia's first day back in school (and at juniors now!).

A nice cup of tea

Checking up on the garden :)

Huuuuge sunflower!

Yum!

Multicoloured chillies!

I brought some garden inside, seeing as the Japanese Anenome is flourishing so well.

 

I'm going to take Amelia out for a little walk after school - see if we can find some cob nuts!

 

Hope you're also having a lovely late summer.

xxx

 

 

 



August Florals

I'm hoping the garden will survive while we're away. With all the rain earlier on in the year, the roots should be nice and deep, so I think we'll be OK :)

This photo really makes me laugh - it's as though the different flowers and stalks somehow have their own personalities! Can you see that, or is it just me? :/

Alelia says she would like a spring-themed bedroom, so I'll be printing out a few of our own flower photos to frame and hang on her walls.

More pics on our return!

xxx