A weekend away

Great excitement. Today I'm going for a weekend away in the country with the girls. It is a friend's birthday and she has booked a cottage in Derbyshire. There will be four of us. 

The plan is walk, eat, drink, sleep, walk, eat, drink, sleep. But hopefully there will be plenty of chitter chatter and laughter too. And I expect there will be the names on the forehead game too, once we've completed the drink part of the agenda.

 I wonder if I will be Chesty Morgan again?

Image copyright Aston Cottages

Here's where we're going. It's a little converted farm building on a smallholding out in the middle of nowhere. Lovely.

Love hurts

This is a great song and a great, albeit desperately melancholy, version here by Elvis Costello and EmmyLou Harris.

Such wonderful harmonies.

Enjoy!

Sky, Bristol

On Monday, on my way back to Nottingham, I dropped by Clifton Village in Bristol, which is home to one of my freckleface outlets, Sky.

It's a very pretty shop with a lovely Georgian frontage painted turquoise blue. Clifton is such a charming area of Bristol, with lots of small independent shops.

Opposite was this really lovely flower shop. It was full of beautiful flowers which were almost singing "Spring is here" and smelled how heaven must smell.

Catriona Andrews

I love this blog. Simply love it. Things don't happen fast on it, but when they do they are wonderful treasures.

It is the work of Scottish artist and illustrator Catriona Andrews (Cat to her friends, which I always think is a lovely name). She tells little stories about her life through her drawings. She loves nature and being in the countryside, which I can totally empathise with and she seems to have loads of interests.

My favourite things are her monthly visual diaries. So many stories in there!

 

Today I saw...

 A flying pheasant...

An Elvis-alike, with the most impressive, blacker than night, brilliantined quiff you've ever seen...

 

The M5 camels...

and Serena de la Hey's Willow Man sculpture.

The one that got away

Oh, I hate it when that happens. I have been coveting this postcard for about a week, and was watching it and everything, but then I forgot exactly when it was up for sale and missed it.

It is possibly my favourite postcard ever. A little winky wonky wooden house, wearing folk costume,  keeping animals and growing vegetables. I could so happily live like that. In my dreams I already do.

Eloise's home part 2

Cute little boy stuff and The Work Space! Eloise has some beautiful vintage books.

 

 

 

 

 

  

So long Eloise!