First up - a very big Thank You to Gill who has very kindly awarded me the Nice Matters Award.
"awarded to those that are just nice people, good blog friends and those that inspire good feelings and inspiration! Those that care about others that are there to lend support or those that are just a positive influence in our blogging world"
Thank you so much for this Gill, I really appreciate it.
On to more mundane matters.
We have some very pretty wisteria at the end of the garden, which is normally a real picture in early May. This year was no exception and for three weeks or so the top of the garden was brimming with its beautiful mauve flowers dancing and bobbing in the breeze. Imagine my surprise when last week I noticed one or two flowers coming out again. Although the display is by no means as lush as it was three months ago, it is still really pretty - and most unusual for August. Does anyone out there know why the wisteria should have flowered for a second time this year. Or is it just another sign of our topsy-turvy climate change?
For some reason wisteria always reminds me of 1930's Home Counties suburbia - the sort of place where John Betjeman's 'Miss Joan Hunter-Dunn' (she who was 'furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun') would have lived. Although these days it also makes me think of Wisteria Lane in Desperate Housewives!! Not quite such a genteel image.
Yesterday's car boot sale didn't result in anything wonderful. There were the usual suspects of a few decent books for resale, an electronic dinosaur toy for DN, and a nice thick winter jacket for him too. I did manage to find this pretty material. I love the pale mauve and pink flowers on the deep sand coloured background - very summery / beachy.
At the moment it's a fitted single sheet, but hopefully soon it will take on a different incarnation - especially as it is lovely thick material, much too thick for a sheet to my mind - probably as (yet another) bag.
A very fitting award for you.Congrats !!!!!
I love the bag you sent me.It has become my everyday bag and I have recieved many comments on it.It fits me perfect.
Rachel
Posted by: Rachel | 08/14/2007 at 01:35 AM