Holiday snaps….

We went to the beautiful Sivota in Epius region of Greece. I can highly recommend it.

Fields  of Wild Carrot. I collected some seeds.

Boat trip to Paxos and Anti-Paxos.

Met this sweet Whippet on the beach. He looked so much like my Ede!

'Pop up Mid-Summers Eve bash…..

 It had to be done…

                                  

 

 A veritable feast

 Donned our headdresses

 My chap at the bar.

                      

 The band played on into the night. We had a wee jig!

 Was a real hoot!

May be repeated??

All this and more...

Loving this Summer weather.
Picking so many flowers
Chasing rabbits out !
Getting cross at slugs!!
Missing my Dad.
Children having exams.
Husband has chronic hay fever- wants the garden crazy paved!!
Looking forward to my holiday
Ede has a tan.
XXX

That time of year...

 Open Garden for NGS. THIS SUNDAY!!!

11-5.30PM

£3.50 PP Children free. Dogs welcome on leads. 

Lots of cakes . Tea and Coffee too.

Plants, Plants and more Plants for sale!! 

 Ede will be there to try and steal your cake!!!

Please bring sunshine. 

Harvest time….

My week...

Weddings
Photo shoot with vintage wedding dresses, make up and hair ladies too!! Crazy times.
Massive rain storm.
All tickets sold - Midsummer pop up Eve.
Garden growing like mad!!
Lots of pain killers (painful jaw??) Visit to the Doc's
Eat far too much chocolate (hey, nothing new there then!!!)
Visit to an Antiques fair ( think Im getting bored of them??  Everything is far too expensive !!!
Lifts to and fro for my offspring
No cleaning of the house
Not enough hours in the day!!!
Not enough sleep.
My week !!!
xxx

The images say it all….

The garden is healing..

Flowers always help.

My dear old Dad passed away the end of March, hence why Iv been away from blogging for quite some time! He was in hospital for several months. we knew it was coming to the end of his days, so we  managed to get him home. He was so much happier to be home. I found it very hard seeing him so frail, as he was so active for his age (91!)
At home he could look out of the window and see the garden and hear the birds. I think this gave him such peace. We had time to reflect and say our goodbyes.
I feel sad, but proud he was my Dad, glad he had such a long life and try and be thankful for the fact he died in the room he was born in , how many can say that?! The happy times he spent with his grandchildren.
I have had such support from my family and friends. My hubbie was amazing, he looked after him like his own Dad and has grieved as if he was too. I think I feel in love with him more for that!

Putting together the flowers, Hymns etc did help.
My dear friend Carry Akroyd kindly let us use one of her prints from the John Clare book of poems she illustrated to use on the order of service sheets. Trying to make the service about 'Thanks giving' for all the thinks he loved, Birds, Spring, flowers really did help.
I took stock of the love of my family and friends , the sunshine, birds singing and for all of these things i say 'Thank you Dad' xxxx

Fred 

Dad holding Poppy for the first time. 

Lots of love xxxx