Friday 14 October 2011

At last a few snaps

Obviously I have lots of photographs to show you but I wont bombard you with them all at once, for now here are three that I call the good the bad and the ugly, in that orderLiving the dream with varnish from Nails Inc. I don't remember the colour and I left the bottle in Italy
A wild fire that raged for a week on the hillside behind our house. Helicopters with water buckets and planes that scoop from the sea were a constant presence and did a brilliant job in a very tricky location
Our second bedroom, carpet up, several layers of wallpaper and one of paint being stripped, we didn't leave it like this honest.

We did have a set back when we returned to Scotland, found our wood burner was smoking badly when we tried to light it. I am already the colour of a kipper, for a day or so I smelt like one too. Yesterday we managed to clear a blockage in the flue accessed through the inside of the stove, getting filthy in the process but it fixed the problem. Home three days now, Mr FF almost has the boiler installed and I've done a little tidying in the garden, which has been overtaken by weeds over the last 10 weeks. I suppose its not possible to have a transient lifestyle and a beautiful garden but please don't make me choose just yet.

7 comments:

  1. You will have to go for the low maintenance option in the garden ..... in our last garden, we had no grass, lots of gravel/chips with membrane underneath to keep the weeds down (ideas stolen from Alan Titchmarsh and Groundforce). I'm envious of your tan - mine has almost faded!

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  2. Our garden has been over-run with weeds too - sadly no hols just this stupid plaster cast has prevented me getting out there :(

    Love the colour of your toes :)

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  3. Welcome back! Love the colour of that nail polish (which you've applied very neatly. I always get it on my toes.) We've managed to get some of the work done in our garden. It's only taken two (or is it three?) years!

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  4. Great color your sporting there...both skin and toes! I'm jealous. Now, if it were my gdaughter, she'd want to paint some lime green somewhere on those toes! :0)

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  5. Welcome home! Hope you are managing to tame your garden!

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  6. Welcome home safe and sound. At least the garden will be dying now. Ros

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  7. Now that is a lovely colour nail polish.

    And I can't imagine how many weeds you had to yank after 10 weeks. Brave woman!

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