I wasn’t with Mr M when he went to collect my time-worn rustic shutters from my friends barn recently. She had bought them as part of a job lot and found them too chippy for her own taste. I’m grateful we’re different like that. I can only imagine the exchange of words and looks between […]
It was always going to be a challenge, choosing which of my pretty home decor I would display in our ‘ripe for renovation’ bungalow when we first moved in. Clearly not every single piece I owned could make its way out of every last packing box with the limited space on offer. Selecting carefully those […]
“Do you suppose she’s a wildflower?” says the Daisy to the Iris trying to establish just who Alice really is (Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland). There are occasional lines of a few children’s classics I can recall… this one has always been a favourite of mine. So much so I treated myself this year to […]
“Let’s get you another piece of wood to put your paint tin on, it doesn’t look very safe there” he said with a deep sigh whilst staring at a two and a half litre tin of Farrow and Ball’s Skimming Stone balancing precariously on a frame. I was in a hurry you see. The football […]
Recently, on one of those warm and balmy summer evenings we are currently delighting in, I was setting the garden table for a supper party and found myself spoilt for choice for a white tablecloth. I appear to have a fair few. Six infact. A cotton tablecloth for every occasion it seems and all of […]
