Show Them Your Cross

I tried to find The Vicar of Dibley joke on Youtube, but had no joy.

As mentioned in my previous post, this is the French crucifix that I bought at the Vintage Fair, along with a 'Souvenir de Paris' scarf.

I am intrigued about the skull on it.

Does anyone know why?

Gosh, the weather since we came home has been tremendous, so I 've been a busy bee in the garden. Seeds, re-potting plants and actually planting the rose bushes which I bought in February and just heeled in for the last 2 months. Still, they look okay and are throwing out new shoots, so hopefully there'll be lots of lovely smelling flowers later in the year.

Summer...bring it on!!

Zxx

Not Quite 'Bonjour'

 Yeah, well...those who follow me on Facebook know I never made it to France.

Hey-ho!

But I have planted up a small trough with French lavender.

 

I had a crafty week, making use of the hot weather to wash all my new fabrics ready to cut and sew.

(Just need to make a space to lay it all out and cut it out!!).

 

drinking in the heady aroma of honeysuckle

 I've just about finished my embroidery that I started years ago and took up again when I spent the week on the boat in Oxford. Mind you, even that was years ago now, too!

 

We also were given cake!

Oh my, and what cake it was too! Our new Polish neighbours were celebrating their daughters' first birthday and Grandma made this beautiful cake. Multiple layers, fresh fruits, cream and chocolate chips.

 

 

The clematis in the front garden is a joy.

 I also managed to actually pick 3 peony blossoms this year. I don't tend to grow a lot of flowers, but at the moment I have little vases with cornflowers, sweet William, pinks, marigolds and sweet peas in. Not very many but enough to make me go "Wheeee", especially as this year, all my early Sarah Raven-inspired sweet pea seed planting only gave me 2 plants!

Meh!

But for the first time my cornflowers have come to fruition and I am so chuffed.

 

Will do my best to pop over to your blogs to say hello, but would just like to say a big

 "Thank you"

 to all of you who have supported me and been so kind with your words. It really is a huge boost when I am feeling 'bleurgh'.

Zxx



BEDM - Day 5 "Cinco de Mayo"

Rene in a sombrero

I'm afraid to say all things 'Mexicana' really don't come into my sightline! We enjoy Chiquitos when we're in Salford, but I tend to eat steak, nothing spicy.

 

 

Oh, and cocktails, of course!

 

 

This next picture was taken when we lived in Southsea, when we would visit the Southsea Show held on the common.

They had a most wonderful Floral Tent, our very own 'Southsea Chelsea' so to speak.

There were all sorts of displays - these cacti, sweet peas, (my fave), professional growers, WI groups, kiddies mini gardens, (I loved doing those at school).

 And a tea room!

 

 

Birthday Gal

Happy Birthday to me!

As If By Magic

Nothing yesterday. Nothing the day before.

 

 

Then...SURPRISE...3 little bluebell flowers in the front garden, espied on the way back from the massage therapist.

nice hazard tape!



Summer (Colour) Lovin'

This is the best I can do to say thank you to you fellow bloggy friends who wished me well with my impending tooth nightmare!

 

 

Can't quite do the bunch of flowers, so a selection of pretty flower bulbs that need to be planted up!

 

Working on from the last post of having buying things you might need - Mr B came home with this present for me (us?...but you know who'll be using it!) from 'techy support', Patch.

(See him here, with the 1948 Olympic Torch)

 

A giant 'pencil sharpener' to peel and curl your root veggies.

 

Now, I really like raw carrot, never eat enough of it and always tend to grate it.

(Unless they're ones I've grown then I just eat them straight out of the ground!).

So I rather like the idea of making those nice little curls that you find in arty foody pictures; a little bit more substance than grated bits.  



 

A rather scary-looking me planting bulbs on Christmas Day 2013. As always, a bit late planting, but I'd picked these packets up really cheap in Homebase; bluebells, white anemone and red tulips.

 

And this is how lovely the tulips are looking today!

(And I am wearing the same footwear today. Spooky!)

Zxx

Morning, Glory

You cannot imagine the joy this morning as I looked out of the kitchen window and saw this.

I do believe I let out a little squeal!

 

 

I have wanted to grow one of theses for years!

 

 

 

Ipomoea tricolor 'Heavenly Blue' aka as Morning Glory.

 

Its' less fancy looking cousin, convolvulace,  is treated as a weed and we get a lot growing through from next door, wrapping itself around the pear trees, which is a bloomin' nuisance! But, oh, these blue beauties...sigh, I am in love.

 

Morning glory is also a slang term which I had never heard of until Mario said he was 'suffering' from it when he was in the Celebrity Big Brother house!

 

Trust 'men' to call 'it' glory! Pah!

Z xx

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