Yes! Finally!!! Sighs of relief from my family…it is my actual real life birthday! Today!!!! It will be another year before I start the google Alexa ploy again…well…October …in time for Christmas ‘surprises’.
I am very excited about the diamonds and swimming pool arriving..I expect that they will arrive probably definitely this afternoon.
This is my best thoughtful pose - the very important assistant stylist is strong in this one: “What have I forgotten for my birthday extravaganza??? Birthday blouse in softest sagest green linen heaven from the most beautiful lady in the world @stonedwaisted and coolest hat that actually makes you feel like a rock star from the same gorgeous lady? CHECK!!! Vase and jug of colour joy from @ibbi_interiors CHECK!! Another birthday basket of ridiculous gloriousness that works as a tray and a centrepiece from the brilliant @thebasketroom ? CHECK!!!
Cushions, flowers, candles, water…hang on!!!’ Water????!!! On my birthday?????? Rude. Champagne! All the way, all day (until about 11am when I pass out from over excitement and too much fizz- I was in bed by 8pm on my 40th birthday in Cornwall - I have lost all rock and roll attributes other than my amazing hat!!
Happy birthday me…and asleep on these cushions in 5..4…3…
Thank you everyone for all the totally and utterly unprompted birthday wishes, cards, gifts and joy. And probably diamonds and a swimming pool.
Happy boozy snoozy Saturday x
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“Oh Reb! What have you been up to?”
“This box isn’t mine Steve the Postman!!! I mean..yes…it has my name on it but I SWEAR I haven’t ordered anything!!! Not this time! No way!!”.
Steve & I go back 8 years - I was scrubbing my new front door step: “Is the lady of the house available?” he enquired. I arose from the mire of a cottage unlived & unloved for a year & a half “Hallo” I greeted him, dripping cobwebs & mouse poo. “Welcome to your new home & rural idyll” he said & added “I apologise for handing you these brown envelopes, if I could, I would tear them up & simply hand you lovely post”.
From that moment I knew we would be friends. We have been through a lot together: him chasing me down the lane “I have two actual creates for you!!!! What have you been ordering?”, me hailing him down in a nearby village (they get their post before 4pm) “Steven!!! Stop!! I nee…” “It’s here Reb - your daughter’s present for the party after school”.
I love him & he is leaving me, 6 weeks from today he is retiring, he dropped the box on the doorstep & legged it to behind the apple tree: “…what have you been up to? Well I am glad we have this tree between us- I am leaving you for eternity in six weeks”. I fell to the ground (gently because it is a brick floor in the hallway). I wailed & knashed, I begged him not to leave me “Gary doesn’t understand me in the way you do…he won’t leave me crates because he knows I can use them in a photo..please don’t go!!!”.
“It’s time Reb, 30 years, be happy for me”. I sobbed some more, we exchanged words of love & he rumbled out of the drive to the sounds of me…ripping open my surprise box of birthday amazement from the gorgeous @ibbi_interiors. They knew I had been coveting this gorgeous basket & somehow knew that it was my birthday tomorrow…I have no idea how…& sent me this beauty. I dried my tears, inhaled the incredible smell of this Reed basket & waved my gorgeous postie Bon voyage for 6 weeks time, skipping to my flower patch to cut some glorious blooms to accessorise.
Happy fare thee well Friday x
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Happy almost birthday to me, happy almost birthday in two days to me, happy birthday dear me, love from @sophie_allport ...
Yes!!!! I have finally joined the Sophie Allport gang. I had to pick bees, glorious bees, it is just too gorgeous a design to ignore (plus I really love bees and have a wonderful affinity with them (well…. I save them from the paddling pool hourly. The problem is that they get mullered on the Hollyhock pollen, weave their way across the paddock, feel a little dehydrated and drop into the pool shattered, thirsty but still dancing).
I am hoping that this blanket of unbridled softness - and bees!! AND POM POMS!!! and the gorgeous cotton cushions of bee bliss and the beautiful picnic ware - it’s such amazing quality that I will probably use them for ‘non picnic’ too - will stop the bees in their tracks, they will settle down next to the bee whisperer/ saviour and stop attempting to drink the chlorinated pool water.
We shall enjoy our breakfast of kings (school finishers), wipe our mouths with beautiful bee cotton napkins and then plonk them over our faces for a tiny “we made it” snooze on the softest of bee blankets. Buzzzzz zzzzzzz.
Employ ENGLISHCOUNTRYCOTTAGE15 to treat yourself to 15% off all non-sale items until the end of my birthday month and celebrate the end of school, the summer holidays and my birthday…!!! Yippeee!!!
Happy no more thirsty bees Thursday x
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This was the last time that the Hollyhocks stood proud…actually they might be upright again but I over Roséd in a pre “it’s the end of term tomorrow/ Thursday fashion, come on children who are entirely broken let’s go for a quick walk to watch the sun set in this eerie weird crazy post storm light argghhh why are you both hurting my ears with your arguments? Why aren’t you in bed I know I suggested a walk but I was WRONG OK? Go to bed, what was I thinking, who cares about crazy orange light that makes the trees look other worldly. Stop shouting at me and go to…oh sorry Mr slug…sorry mr snail” we spent the rest of the walk avoiding lowlife and once the children had fallen into bed I fell into the Rosé.
Drat.
I have no idea if the hollyhocks are still on the ground after yesterday’s deluge. I shall attempt to prise my eyes fully open after this cup of tea and peek outside. At this point I am just hoping to get the right children to the right schools and pray that my car doesn’t stop mid flood - the school playground yesterday was the stuff of Gene Kelly dreams.
I shall simply gaze at my hallway of basket and sunshine dreams (thank you amazing @thebasketroom - they not only look amazing but smell delicious and the pink striped laundry basket is a bit of a game changer - it holds all my washing and doesn’t let it fall into the ant mounds!!! Who knew bags could stay upright??? Plus it looks fabulous and makes me very happy. This is where I shall remain for just a few more minutes before the reality of road closures; lost “but I HAVE to take it in today or I will be executed library books” and storm broken hollyhocks flood my Roséd brain.
Happy waaaaaaaaaah Wednesday x
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My first (presumably of many dearly beleaguered husband?) birthday present!! Yippeee!!!
My birthday is not until Saturday but the gorgeous @sarahbecvardesign sent me the most beautifully embroidered forget me not bookmark. I couldn’t ask for a more perfect floral reminder, I tend to have several books on the go and share bookmarks which means I am permanently losing my place in at least two books.
This is absolutely the perfect birthday present (other than DIAMONDS AND A SWIMMING POOL) and obviously makes a fabulous teacher gift so if like me you have definitely intentionally left that gift of gratitude to the last second then head over to Sarah’s beautiful page and snap up these beauties.
Thank you so much gorgeous @sarahbecvardesign , you are very talented and this makes opening a book even more joyful.
Happy mark the page (AND MY BIRTHDAY, husband) Monday x
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I assume that if this isn’t ‘insta’ then I have created an ‘outsta’?
This was not taken today, or even yesterday- intakes of breath ricochet over the wavelengths - no, it was taken for my styling piece on the Burleigh web blog post site interweb this week.
Not content with moonlighting on @ruralmums website, I decided to stage a take over on the @burleighpottery website too. I just have a lot to say about alfresco table styling ok??? I need to waft in @cabbages_and_roses dresses that match my tablescape and I need to write about it.
I am finishing this triumvirate (well it is now) with a blog on my own website with tray loads of wafting and pretty tablescapes with the ULTIMATE GUIDE TO TABLESCAPING (hopefully you used the right voice as you read that). It is very straightforward and simply amalgamates everything that I have learned about creating a beautiful table over the past couple of weeks.
Pull up a chair, grab a pretty tablecloth and click on the link in my bio. Then I swear promise to shut up about creating beautiful table settings…for at least a week…some days…
Happy tableSCAPING Sunday X
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Ah! The photobombing Hollyhocks are back! Once again. Guess who’s back, save your friends.
I am slightly beyond excited (almost to the point of not even worrying about the reemergence of the carnivorous Hollyhocks) as the amazing @burleighpottery recently interviewed me…ok…asked me some probing…kind…questions about table styling and I am now to be found flouncing and doing my best wafting in my @cabbages_and_roses dress of joy on their amazing blog on their website.
Please feel free to waft your way over and read about why I love Burleigh Pottery and my three top tips for alfresco dining (I am regretting not adding a postscript of “ask guests to avoid the hollyhocks when they arrive or you may find you are in the embarrassing Agatha Christie dilemma of one less for dinner”).
Head to @burleighpottery for the link to all about me…erm…styling tips on alfresco dining joy and why I love this incredible 170 year old British company x
Happy stylish Saturday xxx
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Is it possible to exploit a rose?
Rights for roses! Is that a thing?
I worry that I am making these garden roses work very hard. A couple have dropped their heads - in disgust? Exhaustion? Have I pushed them too far? Was it one final sinkie and not even on a day beginning with S that sent them over the edge of these beautiful pots?
I am sorry roses, we don’t get long to enjoy your beauty (particularly when we have suffered the rain and cold of outrageous June). I just need you in my kitchen…photos…
Maybe a few more breaks? Maybe not such an intensive styling session beforehand - I did resort to a bit of rose stuffing into one of the pots but it kept leaping out in what I now see was probably a bid for freedom. I am so sorry little rose with the wonky stem.
Hurrah for sweetpeas instead, I shall focus all my attentions onto the 7 blooms that have now appeared…I will probably even open a flower farm at this rate. Sweetpeas - the flower that keeps on giving.
Goodbye roses, you are just too needy, we are officially through! Contract terminated…hmmmm…I spy new buds…. Have a day off! On me! A floral vacance, I shall be back with my secateurs on Friday. Mwoah ha ha.
Happy Thursday Thinkie (pretend I have trouble with my S’s) x
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Well she’s looking mighty happy about something….
Yes!!! It’s sunny!!! We can invite friends over to “Le Jardin” - it just gives it edge doesn’t it? “Come for supper..alfresco, dans le jardin….sur le Joanne De Lumlei (it was the most elegant term I could come up with for ‘patio’).
I have also just finished a massive collaboration with the most amazing @dressfordinnertablescapes , the company that you wish you had founded & actually makes you a bit angry that you didn’t come up with such an amazing idea as to buy all the perfect pieces that create a world of tablescaping bliss & how does she do it at that price & argh she is also really lovely!!!
This has all been amalgamated into a blog piece that I have written for @ruralmums - yes!!! My moonlighting job - they asked me to write for their relaunched website about stylish cool stuff, I screamed “YES!!!!!!!!!!, spittled a bit, tried to style it out & was very grateful for zoom (“ooh a fly that you didn’t see just landed on my lips - eugh- sorry - go on - you want me to just do something super chilled, laid back, cool, writing for you on YOUR AMAZING WEBSITE???”).
Head over to @ruralmums & read about this gloriously brilliant company @dressfordinnertablescapes with super simple tips for table styling. Whether you love creating your own tablescapes (you can sweetie pick & mix your own) or whether it hurts your brain but you want your guests to feel special & immediately relax into a beautiful evening (pick the table decor box - tablecloth, napkins, placemats, vases, candles, plates, glasses in an amazing box of time saving, guest ooooohing joy) Dress For Dinner have the lot. And Ruralmums let me write about it!
That is why I am statically wafting in white linen on my Joanne de Lumlei.
Happy wonderful Wednesday x
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Shhhhh!!! Be very quiet, don’t move, I think summer might have just landed in the garden…no!!! Don’t run out to look- you will scare it off!!! Just admire from afar and whisper softly “Hello beautiful rare bird of golden plumage, I have missed you, welcome back…PLEASE DON’T FLY AWAY AGAIN UNTIL OCTOBER - OKAY?????”.
My heavenly @zoeglencross Bollin bird cushions are hitting the perfect summery note. They remind me of happy beach holidays, watching the birds swooping over head (I am not counting the seagulls, seagulls these days are simply rude) and foraging on tidal sands. The movement is so relaxing and there is a wonderful patterned flow that we only really enjoy when we have time to stop and stare.
These cushions have been given pride of summery place (along with her gorgeous inky Slade Stripe to herald the (LOUD TRUMPET SOUNDS) FIRST SWEETPEAS ALIVE IN OUR GARDEN!!!!!
I should say ‘grown’ but this is the first year that any of them have made it out of the ground. Between the (whispered) sunshine, lavender, the scent of the THREE sweetpeas and the joyful Bollin birds, I am not sure that I will actually manage any work today. Perhaps I should just plonk my stunning works with anything any time @stonedwaisted hat on, pour some Rosé and fall into an accidental holiday.
Happy time to stop and stare Tuesday! X
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PS: head over to see me achieve ultimate wafting in a CORNFIELD!! Boom! in @stonedwaisted ‘s post today xx
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Hollyhocks are coming,
Hollyhocks are coming.
I don’t know what has inspired this Christmas tune in my head…not with this glorious blue sky….that lasted two hours and then left me fumbling in the darkness of our hallway for a coat…in JULY.
Absolutely not complaining but just laying down a teensy tiny threat: it is my birthday in two weeks and I need sunshine. We went to a wonderful castle reconstruction yesterday filled with gory forms of torture (and a variety of animals including the mental silkies which really made me laugh watching them fluff and flutter in front of the stocks). I am now fully versed in medieval torture methods so buck your ideas up birthday month or I may be forced to rack you.
Happy Medieval menace Monday xxx
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Hallo! A neat and tidy bedroom? On a Sunday? Is this for real? On a SUNDAY?
Ok, it’s the spare room govnor, my bedroom appears to have hosted a Barbie party with darker elements of wooden swords and lightsabers. Why don’t my children play in THEIR rooms???
This is a photo to lead me totally naturally into I WROTE A BLOGPOST ABOUT BEDROOM STYLING FOR A MAGAZINE SHOOT. So smooth, so seamless.
Head over to my website (linkinbio) to read tips of the trade on styling your bedroom for a magazine as well as just how to style a room and where to begin when designing a bedroom.
@rattygolightly was the unsuspecting victim of my very important assistant stylist ministrations with just the teensiest of guidance (massive) from @naomi_jones_homes and @rsimagesandart and with the unbelievably generous help of the amazing fabric designer @zoeglencross, the glorious @bedfolkhq the extraordinary @thebasketroom, the beautiful @ibbi_interiors , the brand new @constantcandleco and the wonderful @emma.perring and the amazing @clairefolkesceramics, @rugandcarpetstudio and @aspigalondon for their assistant stylist dress of dreams.
Thank you all for helping to create a magical bedroom - the room that is so often overlooked when we move into a new home and focus our attentions on the main entertaining rooms in the house.
Grab a cup of tea, dive into the blog and immerse yourself in simple bedroom styling.
Happy styling Sunday x
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Yes - hiding.
Yes - the cottage is being engulfed by roses…well…mainly rose leaf but there are some brave hopeful roses that are attempting to bloom.
Last night my son introduced us to a wonderful game that drops you anywhere in the world/ UK/ wherever you feel comfortable & then you sleuth out where you are in this geographical nightmare. I was positive & upbeat (geographically I struggle…UK wise I have a fair idea - unless I am expected to drive there & then it’s pointless & I may as well stay at home & save all the tears, confusion & verbal satnav abuse).
Bit by bit I was drawn into this game of Sherlock Deduction (Marple was no use to me. - this was bigger than St Mary Mead or Bertram’s Hotel, this was the ENTIRE UK)! You are dropped google maps style into a ‘place’ & you then have to identify this place, bit by bit your sleuthing mind is honed: look for street names (ok, the Sauvignon was still strong in this one), signposts…hang on…. Dustbins!!! Yes dustbins! Council locations! Vans with sign printing…school names..pub names….Boom!!! Plonk that Sherlock deerstalker firmly on your head & try to remember where Bangor is…There are TWO Bangors?!!! How did I forget this???
After 15 minutes my face was inches from the television screen (“I am old, I cannot see!!!” I screamed to the children as I jostled them out of the way. I recounted happy school holidays with friends “it’s close to Aberystwyth…Dollgellau…Cader Idris…NOoo!! That’s Barmouth!!! Oh dear…erm...”
Much safer in the roses.
Happy stay safe Saturday x
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I quietly but whole heartedly over celebrated last night.
My assistant stylist badge shone brightly on my wafting dress of dreams, I moved sourdough bread on a chopping board several centimetres, I closed pantry cupboard doors which was actually very difficult until I realised that they were shutter style and not pull the entire cupboard with all beautiful valuables onto me.
@naomi_jones_homes gently moved me upstairs and I spent a few happy hours plumping cushions, wafting bedlinen (and myself) and arranging beautiful paintings and ceramics.
Eventually I allowed the magazine pros to come in and restyle (straight throws not drapey for magazines Rebecca!!!) and photograph my wafting. I was a little surprised when they asked me to remove myself from my artfully draped position on the bed but perhaps the interiors world is not ready for such extreme wafting drapery.
I shall sit in my rocking chair and look out of this window today, reliving the triumphs and feeling ever so slightly Sauvignoned.
Happy fuzzy Friday!!!! Xxx
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Oh bless her! Is she still looking for Hermes Darren in the murderous hollyhocks?
No!!! I am very obviously wafting in my new dress of dreams from the glorious @aspigalondon of course!!! Maybe a teensy squint for Darren as I romantically waft past…
I am off on another magazine shoot today which is beyond exciting (I actually couldn’t sleep last night I was so excited- I’m not sure whether it was the thought of being able to wear this dress and force poor @rsimagesandart to take lots of brilliant wafting shots - plenty of time for the house feature photos loves - or seeing the amazing magician that is @naomi_jones_homes again work her magic on another beautiful Suffolk cottage or possibly finally getting to meet the gorgeous, super funny, ridiculously talented @rattygolightly and nose around her beautiful home and studio of joy.
My slightly tiny mind is blown, I may just spend all day looking romantic (I can’t help it! This Audrey dress makes me want to run my hand through long grass, hop in a boat and …ok…I should probably hop into my car and journey through deepest darkest Suffolk, wafting and waving to drivers admiring glances of my dress of romance and happiness (I will sit up really tall so that they can see as much as possible).
Thank you for creating such a beautiful dress wonderful @aspigalondon - your summery dresses are just bliss, head to my stories throughout the day to see wafting….sorry…magazine styling updates!
Happy thoroughly excited Thursday x
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Once upon a time there were two girls who were forced to hide under a jolly fund raising fete table. They were seven years old and disgusted with proceedings. Why couldn’t they be somewhere else?
The amazing girl asked the newcomer to come and play at her house by the sea, the new girl squeaked “yes please” and she entered a world of beauty and books. Of calm and creativity. This was a most beautiful home and she was introduced to “Charles In Charge”…life actually didn’t get much better for the new girl.
Their friendship was cemented over chocolate cornflake cakes and home made rainbow iced lollies.
It continued through the nasty nun maths lessons “I can’t tell the difference between Rebecca and Rachael, they both sit at the back and flick their hair”.
It flourished when the amazing girl offered shelter to the heartbroken he wasn’t for you girl and they lived the life of Riley in Shepherds Bush, working at the top of the road at the BBC and sneaking in at the weekends to drink coffee, use the photocopier (for the not heartbroken any more girls new theatre company) and leer at Ant and Dec in the studio.
Now in their gentle 40’s the amazing girl has created a truly amazing candle company- totally sustainable and eco friendly. It allows you to refill your existing candle holders with eco friendly scented wax. It’s simple, smells beautiful and uses reassuringly luxurious blends of oils.
The still enjoys chocolate cornflake cakes girl is very happy with her beautiful new candle and wants everybody to enjoy this brilliance. Please head over to @constantcandleco and have a look at this ingenious idea. My beautiful friend has supported me since we were 7 years old, I would love to give some support back.
Happy wonderful friend Wednesday xxx
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Obviously yesterday before the sky turned to liquid. We still had glorious roses, the wind and rains had not yet stolen our summer joys!
I also noted that we still had a rockery piled up next to the door. Why has this aberration not been moved? Why is this most likely now a home for mice and snakes, earwigs and ants still here? We already have a fancy bug hotel and lift any stone in the garden and you will find a plethora of wriggling friends.
In fact, simply stand and meditatively hang out the washing and you will soon find the ants swarming over your feet as you discover that you have stood upon ANOTHER massive ants nest in the lawn. Yes! This actually happened. I was not happy although the laundry bag was filled with ants which made me giggle to think that I had achieved a literal interpretation of “ants in your pants”.
The lawn is covered in bare patches of earth where these creatures have erupted into the world, ready to invade our pants. How does one rid oneself kindly of invading ants? Why can’t the prolifically pooping pigeons eat them? Why am I forced to eye up the rockery of “I’ll just pile them here for now whilst I clear up and then I will move them round to the shed darling” (my husband circa TWO MONTHS ago) and harbour murderous thoughts of ant squashing? I am not a creature murderer!! Don’t make me angry ants, move on or I will be forced to squash your tiny bitey forms with MY ROCKERY OF DOOM.
Happy time out Tuesday! X
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It’s another rule breaker! Eek! On a Monday!!! Kicking off the week with a nuh uh!!
A non folded, gently disarrayed summer linen throw of extreme beauty and gently drooping eyes.
Yes, yes, I know I said in my last magazine styling blog that magazines no longer like rumpled bedding and that blankets and throws should be neatly folded over beds.
Whoops!!! But I just couldn’t help it your honour of style!!! This new cotton linen throw from @bedfolkhq was simply too gorgeous fall into me and have the sweetest of summery dreams to fold neatly. It’s the lightest touch of inky colour with an even lighter grey reverse. Every single colour in their collection blends seamlessly and siren like calls you to the sweetest of slumbers.
THAT is why your honour of magazine rules, THAT is why I have flouted new laws and rumpled and crumpled and relaxed beyond all bounds of styling decency.
This bedding will be accompanying me on another shoot this Thursday, will I be brave enough to flout the new styling laws? Given how well I sleep in their amazing linen bedding, I suspect that I will simply float and waft my way through the day, draping linen and ignoring rigid starchy rules.
Thank you @bedfolkhq - I didn’t think you could create anything more beautiful than you already had - what a fool I was - this is stupendously soft, beautiful and sleep inducingly gorgeous.
Happy moochy Monday x
Ps: have a look next to my plotting chair!!! Yes!!! My basket of joy!!! Discovered as many people suggested “right under my nose” - I am not sure they meant actually every time I opened my drawers EVERY day but they are too kind to have suggested that I am clearly a fool and perhaps should simply retreat back to my glorious bed of sweetest slumbers.
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I don’t need you sunshine. I have sunshine flowers. A ha ha ha. In your rays.
Actually I won’t complain about this cheeky weather, it inspired us to head to the Cambridge Computer Museum & by golly it was brilliant.
Once I had recovered from the shock of driving in a CITY!!! Horses, tractors & mud spattered quad bikes were replaced with traffic of heart racing, teeth grinding fear. Bicycles not as I know them - no longer the retired post mistress & her husband on a leisurely Sunday meander but hardcore students with no concept of mortality, veering straight into the traffic (a quaking me) without even LOOKING!!! Newly introduced electric scooters that are slow but deadly, a wobble here, a right hand swerve there & you are suddenly a car driver murderer of bright minds & interestingly larger middle aged men.
Not only all these hazards of academic prime begging to be cut down but then more than one lane! Choices! I have become used to one road where one pulls up into the verge to allow another car to pass, not a choice of THREE arrows all pointing in different directions??!!!
Where has the London driver who would tear up the South Circular from Clapham to Greenwich most weekends gone? Nipping in and out in her masking taped up Polo??? Actually I found her playing Bubble Bobble in the computer museum and bossing it.
If all this talk of traffic chaos has terrified the hay bales out of you then please head over to my website (linkinbio) for a reassuring visit to @thelittlecornercottage for one of the cleverest mixes of traditional Somerset stone cottage with Scandinavian & French inspired interiors. Fabrics from @kateformandesigns, artwork from @hugsandhearts_ & hygge stoves and benches & a plethora of @farrowandball off whites. A true balm for the city terrified soul.
Happy calm your soul Sunday x
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I have learned that foot stamping and screaming work.
The sun shone for most of yesterday, I am sure that I shouldn’t have learned this lesson and I am not sure how it is going to pan out for my poor husband come my actual birthday but I have been working hard on my talking about the presents I want in front of google alexa and his phone so I am pretty confident that I will be unwrapping diamonds, a swimming pool, a lavender field and more floaty wafty dresses (goodness knows how google will interpret that).
I shall spend the day rescuing more roses, looking threatening with my foot poised to stomp and occasionally muttering “Tiffany’s, Cartier, Black Starr, Frost Gorm. Talk to him google Alexa, tell him all about it”!
Happy suggestive Saturday x
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