Did you see the butterfly fluttering by...? Dearest readers, I hope you are well and that you too are enjoying stunning summer temperatures wherever you are. We started our day today...
Coming back to... Castle Combe! Most of us living in the south west of England have been rather starved for even the tiniest ray of sun lately, so when Saturday morning offered blue skies and a beaut...
Flower power in the family... Dear readers, After days and days of endless rain, I think a blog post filled with floral delights is in order... ... so today I invite you to take a stroll with me thro...
Great Chalfield Manor - Part II Welcome back to part II from the gardens of Great Chalfield Manor. (Please click on the horizontal images to see the whole image. Part of them are "cropped" wh...
Great Chalfield Manor - Part I Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you.... the SUN! After weeks of rain clouding the sky and my temper, the light returned to the West Country today. I d...
Furry flower fantasies... Dearest readers, Thank you SO much for all your kind words about my sister-in-laws garden. I have passed on your praise to her. *** I keep getting cheerful sunshine re...
Water, water everywhere... Just a 15-20-minute drive from where we live is the beautiful little town of Bradford-on-Avon, which, as you may have gathered from its name, is on the river Avon. A stones...
To those of you in need of hope... (Perhaps particularly my dear Scandinavian friends, wading - again - in slushy snow...) It can take a blue form... ... or lean more towards pink... But most importa...
Having the Easter blues... Fewer and fewer are the new decorating details that come over my threshold these days... I like to try to either recycle/upcycle - such as this former sweet corn tin,...
No bacon in my pan... The glow of the afternoon sun is warm and wonderful... With the last few days "heat wave", the newly planted violets seek my attention with small gasps of th...
Lunch on the lawn... This past weekend offered glorious summer temperatures here in the South West UK. Everywhere, the sound of flip flops and lawn mowers enhanced the summery feel, and on Sun...
Counting sheep... It is the first few trembling minutes of Sunday here in the Swenglish house. We are trying to remind ourselves to forward the clocks in the house before we go to bed, and we are pul...
City life... Dear readers, I had hoped to show you some new decorating ideas that have been brewing in my head for a while, but as I have not yet had the time to transfer my ideas into my hand...
Yellow spells spring...! Mmmmm, yum, yum! Now, where are we likely to find a stunning stone planter like this...? (Click on the images if you would like to view them larger and against a black backgr...
Feeling blue... ... but in a good way! (The images in this post look better if you click on them to view them against a black background.) Having returned from Lacock with blue & white inspiratio...
Its tea oclock... ... in lovely Lacock! A few weeks ago, we decided to go for afternoon tea in Harry Potter territory again. Well, perhaps not exactly at Hogwarts (even if this is indeed Lacock villa...
Side-tracking from the season... The garden at King Johns Hunting Lodge Tea Rooms in Lacock Peering into a private garden in Lacock. Images 3 and 4 from the cemetery in Corsham (The manor Corsh...
One step behind... Dear, oh dear... sometimes the wheels spin so fast one forgets all sorts of things... ...like the second anniversary of my blog! A week ago, it was two years ago that my blog took ...
Layered loveliness... Snow drops are on their last breath on the road side, ready to move over and give way to other colourful spring-petalled cousins. A few days ago, with fingers itching for ...
Peeping Tom...again... Today, I invite you to another one of our many pretty neighbouring villages, where my camera and I played a rather awkward Peeping Tom duo the other day. It does feel a little ...
Colour cravings, anyone...? Well, that makes two of us!So, sticking my tongue out to the chilly wind, I today "recycled" a few tulips that were on their last legs, for a little colour therapy...
Dear Weather Gods... Dear Weather Gods,When I was talking about SPRING in my previous blog post,this was not exactly what I had in mind...: The snow that fell last week here in the south of England n...
Spring on my mind... Yes, with spring on my mind and in my step, my mission this morning was to treat the Swenglish house to some tulips, and of course I had my favourite tulip colour in mind: deep p...
Runaway spring...? (If you click on the images, they look much better against the black background.Above is the gorgeous view that greets me when I come out of our little town and look across th...
Looking back at 2011 Dear readers,I hope you have enjoyed a joyful and relaxing Christmas. Perhaps you are sitting with your feet tucked under a blanket, devouring the book that Santa so percept...
And pooouffff, there it was! That gorgeous WHITE fluffy stuff...! I had been dreaming of a white Christmas... ... and when we arrived here in Sweden a few days ago... I saw that there was a goo...
Sprout mania... Dear readers,If I promise not to show a single little sprout for the rest of the year... ...will you allow me to play around with these little green fellows just one more time? You se...
Keep on sprouting... Continuing my sproutful playing in the garden a few weeks ago, I also set a slightly larger table... You have seen all the buffet food before in different ways, and you may...
Bring on the sprouts...! However, just as I am no friend of a cabbage-inspired cuisine, nor are you likely to ever catch me munching brussels sprouts... But who says you have to eat them?!...
Fa-la-la-la-la la-la-la-...yum! With the festive season here, it is time to stock up on sweet treats for Rudolph and his horn-clad mates. In old chocolate and tobacco tins from local seco...
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