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A victory!!!! Not the war but todays battle has been won!!! Another blue skies four days ago photo - was it only 4 days ago that we were happy? That we were skipping though sunshine fields of joy, breathing in the heady scents of warmth drenched roses and laughing at the untold bliss brought by blue skies and jewel green grass (apart from the bits where the ants have exploded and left dry heaped dirt…actually…that’s quite a considerable amount of lost grass…)? We are down to our last few images but I shall persevere. Is it awfully cruel to ask ones husband on Father’s Day to ascend a ladder and shine a large torch down as if recreating the sunshine? Surely he will enjoy the sense of adventure coupled with gadgetry? For those still needing more sunshine fixes, head over to my website for today’s Sunday cottage @home.at.appletree - does it get any more delicious? Well wait until you see Katie’s stunning interior choices - Antique Gustavian furniture blended with elements of French farmhouse, a brand new light soaked extension creating a sun drenched sitting room and a wallpapered bedroom of retreatful bliss. Link in bio. Enjoy x Happy still sunny Sunday x #homeandgarden #cottagegarden #junegarden #roses #insta_garden_lovers #jardin #inmygarden #englishcottage #romanticgardens #cottagestyle #rustic #englishhome #houseandgarden #pinkroses #sundayvibes #gardenlove #gardenroses #romanticliving #englishcottage #countrycottage #cottage #thatchcottage #gardenlife #cottagecoreaesthetic #cosycottage


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I write this with no idea of how much longer we can hold out. Sustenance is dwindling (just a few slices of lemon drizzle and a handful of brownies chopped into tiny pieces to prolong the inevitable), moral is low (hands and faces pressed to rain streaked glass) and I am yet to account for our losses in the field. We knew the risks, the reports were damning, rain was forecast for weeks but we had no idea of the bombardment that we would receive in just three days. I lost good roses yesterday, they fought hard, battling bravely, but the power of the enemy was too mighty, heads drooped by mid afternoon and by evening it was all over, their petals strewn for all to mourn. Even the cannibalistic hollyhocks have suffered casualties and indeed fatalities. We are three hocks downs…what is this beast that can take out good hollyhocks before their prime? This is nothing I have encountered for at least four weeks. I am at a loss. I don’t know how much longer we can hold out. Thank providence that Alan in his lemon van delivered a shed load of Sauvignon Blanc. This is the only option left to us. I have filled the house with the brave casualties, lit candles in cosiness and shall neck wine in their honour. Ah the life of a leader is a hard road to travel (particularly in a wonky house after diminishing the wine supplies). Happy send out for more supplies Saturday x Ps: 10% off with “MYENGLISHCOUNTRYCOTTAGE” the divinely scented @homecountycandleco - ‘Suffolk’ with it’s amber and sweet orange scent is filling the kitchen with its uplifting heavenly perfume. #kitchendesign #kitchendecor #kitchenisland #cottagekitchen #farmhousekitchen #farmhousekitchendecor #cottage #farmhouse #cottagekitchen #countryhousekitchen #vintage #shabbychic #nestandthrive #countrystyle #cottagefurniture #flowersfrommygarden #cottagehome #painteddresser #home #homedecor#homeinspo #interiordesign #interior #dresser #interiordecor


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Is she actually out of her mind????? Another shot from 2 days ago????? This is absolute craziness!!!! This is the work of a maverick, a person that lives life on the edge, a rule breaker, a mind bende…oh..maybe not that one…but I am definitely a rebel without a cause. Actually I do have a cause - I simply cannot condone grey skies on here. I need blue. The garden is junglefying as I write but so is my tiny brain…it had sunshine and warmth and friendliness two days ago…where has it gone? Rather like my missing basket. Where the actual heck is it? I have searched high and low, I even climbed a chair to look on top of the wardrobe - I am not sure if the wobbly chair or the dust on top of the wardrobe was more scary. Having discussed this great mystery at length with a very loyal (nodded and looked worried in appropriate places) friend, I have reached the heights of my Marpleing powers and deduced that it must be under the stairs - this is my default “argh! I have slung all the mess over to one side of the room for a tidy calm photo and now it won’t go back, ah well, I’ll stuff it into here for now and sort it all out probably tomorrow when I will be a more brilliant housewife who is excellent at filing and editing”. This is the only logical explanation for the case of the missing wicker basket. You see? Living life on the edge. What a renegade, I’m virtually dangerous to know. Happy firecracker Friday x Ps if you aren’t too frightened of associating with such a life led on the edge then please head over to my website where @flowersandlifestylebymargot has written a brilliantly simple blog on late lazy cosmos seed sewing!!! You see? Almost anarchists! xxx #idyllic #gardenroses #summer #alfresco #simplepleasures #whiteroses #cottageliving #mygardenthismonth #cottage #englishweather #englishcountrygarden #gardenliving #heatwave #thatch #actualinstagramhomes #outdoorliving #gardenlife #sunshine #climbingrose #country #countryliving #countrycottagestyle #countrycottages #countryhomes


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Ok, it’s a fair cop! This is blatantly yesterday but I am refusing to look at the rainy greyey good for the garden sky. I am holding onto sun & roses for as long as possible thank you very much. The garden is rioting with roses, including those that inspired my curtains. I shall savour every second of their presence in the garden…& my jars & vases. Second guilty “me! Sorry!”: these are the self same shock horror flowers that appeared in yesterday’s post. I am so sorry, please pick yourself up, dust yourself down & try thinking of it as reusing recycling & repurposing - this time they are filling a sitting room with their glorious scent, not just mere table decoration, what an upcycle! I expect this will be the next big trend “repurposed roses”, I am so grateful to have been here at the beginning of this whirlwind journey…although if the rains have their wicked way it will be my only entry so I might just repost this every other day - it’s just reusing!!! Erm the recycling bit comes when I try to put their exhausted petals into the composter & my husband slightly less patiently than the 87 hundredth last time talks me through what can & can’t go into his 3 section composter of actual spiritual joy. If you are a Suffolker do head over to @stonedwaisted fabulous pop up shop with @farohomeuk in Bury St Edmunds today (address in stories). I am looking forward to a morning of serious wafting in all her glorious clothes - I may even give a wafting class depending upon how many people beg me (I have a friend primed with magazine ready to hold up my best waft photo & ask how on earth one wafts so dreamily through cow parsley. Hmmm I better go & pick the last of it to bring with me for an accurate recreation of wafting in linen genius masterclass. Happy through the door & WAFT Thursday x #mycountryhome #myhouseandhome #myhomesanctuary #englishdecor #shabbystyle #shabbyhome #countryhome #cottage #thegreatindoors #loveofcountryhouses #countrycottageinteriors #mycountryhome #myhomesanctuary #myhouseandhome #englishdecor #englishcottage #countryhome #charminghomes #cosyhome #countryliving #countryhome #oldhousecharm #windowview #englishcountryhome #flowersfrommygarden


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Another day, another tablescape! Put down the tablecloth, stop your styling! I can’t!!! It’s now my job of work (well…ok…an occasional whispered “I am an assistant stylist” on a magazine shoot) but I have also been asked by the amazing team @ruralmums to contribute a monthly styling blogpost on their newly relaunched website. This is a pretty stellar website and I have been slightly panicking about my credentials. Yes I like playing with interiors (I did do an interior design course many moons ago…for 6 weeks!), yes I love writing (I did used to write comedy sketches) and I am rural... Rural was the biggest worry, I am definitely a mum and we definitely live in the countryside but is it rural? We don’t have any shops, pubs or sparkly twinkly places near us. Our neighbours are horses and pheasants and foxes but we don’t actually own any animals so do we count? Hopefully the description “characteristic or relating to the countryside” includes regularly standing in fox/ dog/ badger and sometimes horse poo. Hopefully it includes excellent wafting through cow parsley and brilliant foraging skills used to fill a crumbly old cottage with fresh flora and accidental occasional fauna. Pop over and have a read, I am captured under “Success stories from the fields” - I think they are referring to my amazing wafting skills. Rather more brilliantly you can win a bottle of the utterly delicious “Jo Jo Loves” perfume so head over, have an explore and sign up for a chance to win. Happy winning Wednesday X #cottagecore #cottagegarden #cottagegardenflowers #tablescapes #tablesetting #tablescape #littlegardenstories #alfrescodining #burleigh #countrygarden #englishcountrygarden #gardendays #tablesetup #flowersfrommygarden #gardentable #myfloraldays #entertainingathome #mygardenstyle #gardenspace #countryflowers #englishflowers #roses #cottageliving #styleonmytable #tabledecor


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My flower basket is still missing in action. Whilst hunting for my mysteriously disappeared basket of flowers which I had been told were most likely in the guest bathroom where I had abandoned them after Floral Toilet Tuesday (I was certain that was a thing), I realised that my still going @freddiesflowers of trail them around and make the most of them peony joy would look rather wonderful in this room. I abandoned the case of the missing basket and ran helter skelter for my beautiful flowers. Freshly installed along with my amazing Juniper Berry bathroom cleaner of I will be a millionaire in about two weeks (10% off these sprays of eco cleaning deliciousness with “MECC10” from @coltandwillow. Whilst I crouched, almost hearing the pennies rolling in with the oohs and ahhhs of “these smell amazing! And they actually clean!!”, I realised that I was crouching in an old stable block photographing flowers and a bathroom spray. I was concerned that it was perhaps an unusual way to pass a morning but then I realised that it was no more unusual than hunting for a lost basket of dried flowers so happily continued by crouching tiger hidden bottoms stance. Happy I am totally over toilet Tuesday it’s now sparkly taps Tuesday!!! X #bathroominspo #bathroombliss #bathroompanelling #inspiremehomedecor #cottageinterior #bathroomdesign #bathroomdecor #bathroominspo #bathroomvanity #bathroomtiles #vintagedecor #bathroomsink #bathroomdetails #upcycle #shabbychicdecor #cottagestyle #rustichomedecor #rusticdecor #rusticbathroom #countrybathroom #vintagehomedecor #shabbychic #vintagemirror #guestbathroom #bathroomsink #vintagesink #transferware


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Boom! Another ladder shot! My ancient retainer (my husband) grumbled his way from the woodshed to tree with this ladder “but the apples are only three cm small, they won’t be ready until September!!” “EXACTLY!!!!!” I yelled, as if he was actually an aged gem helping to keep the garden under control (he is clearly failing) “I will be ahead of the game!!! A ha ha ha !!! I may have been slow on cow parsley and peonies but by gum I am milking the roses and intend to be waaaaahhaaaaay ahead of the bucolic fruit season picking trend!”. “S’not a trend, tis a season” (I may have upped the yokel accent, he’s actually from Staffordshire and doesn’t speak like a Poldark extra). “Yes, yes, self sufficient in fruit for many months, yes, yes, brilliant, but WHERE IS MY BEAUTIFUL BASKET???? I need my basket to complete this scene of rural idyllness”! The beleaguered landscaper (I thought I better promote him and see if he loses the accent) muttered something about “probably wherever you last wanted to create utopia- probably still on top of the loo in the bathroom filled with dried flowers”; there may have been a snort that followed this utterance but I wafted off, choosing to ignore his parochial innocence. Happy mystery of the missing basket Monday x #roses🌹#roses #thatchcottage #countryliving #flowerlovers #oldhousecharm #oldhouselove #bucolic #rosegram #cottagestyle #gardenroses #cottages #cottagelife #cottagecharm #flowering #countrystyle #countrycottages #countrygardens #wildrose #flowerbed #country_features #mygardentoday #countrylife



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