Today I am mostly bunny sitting. / on Instagram...

Today I am mostly bunny sitting. / on Instagram http://bit.ly/11KOi0C

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Where are we now?

All I can hear is the hum of the laptop. All I do is sit in front of laptops, drive and see beautiful things. I think I can live with that.

Today it was 26 degrees outside the Surrey Hills office. The sunshine beat down on me, both oppressive and magical. I taught people how to read statistics and plan strategies, then drove off back through the light to home.

The garden is blooming. Each thing seems to have stretched towards the warmth and light and covered itself with leaves. The tulips Tom left either side of the decking have a curious symmetry and yet not symmetry framing the rest of the space. I like to sit outside with my work when I get home red and yellow tulips on one side, bluebells facing me and weird yellow shrub I don't know the name of on the other.

I read and worked and hung washing out in a loop for part of the evening, and for the rest I've been a bias binding making machine. The gingham making my eyes swim as I cut fabric over and over again.

Tom isn't here. He's away in Loughborough for the next bit of his course and I've settled into the routine I make for myself when he's not here. Every thing is as tidy as I can make it. Everything is quiet. I'm eating picky bits for tea and bowls and bowls of fruit and watching bad films. There's no one to tell me to go to bed.

I want to make the raspberry canes flower faster so we can feast. Will the shoot I pulled up take? I can give it to Louisa for her garden then. Will the hydrangea reach the top of the pergola.

Since when did I like gardening?

Since when did I do housework without thinking?

Bluebells in the garden / on Instagram http://bit.ly/103pedf

Bluebells in the garden / on Instagram http://bit.ly/103pedf

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More tulips / on Instagram http://bit.ly/103kkgr

More tulips / on Instagram http://bit.ly/103kkgr

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Inside my lovely tulips / on Instagram http://bit.ly/16oNOxB

Inside my lovely tulips / on Instagram http://bit.ly/16oNOxB

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correctemondo: advert for the university that Matt Smith went...

correctemondo:

advert for the university that Matt Smith went to

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So beautiful

“Sunset by Volodymyr Orlovsky 1896” http://feedly.com/k/10IYp5s

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Macaroons for breakfast, don’t mind if I do! / on...

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Spoils from the garden / on Instagram http://bit.ly/Z8GdPA

Spoils from the garden / on Instagram http://bit.ly/Z8GdPA

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Venue for todays training / on Instagram http://bit.ly/15kQ1tx

Venue for todays training / on Instagram http://bit.ly/15kQ1tx

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Oddities on this business trip so far

Service station worker walking off in a strop and throwing his hat over my head at his colleagues.

Hotel receptionist in Manchester not knowing where Southampton is.

Squishy lumpy floor in hotel rooms bathroom.

Yellow plastic holiday toothbrush bring of the shape and consistency to plunge me into vivid childhood recollections of tooth brushing.

Yes! More big trailing bouquets!

Yes! More big trailing bouquets!

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malebeautyinart: Nailbiters Shaun Johnson 2013 I love the...

malebeautyinart:

Nailbiters Shaun Johnson 2013

I love the contrast of the blues and oranges

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Love the trailing parts of this

Love the trailing parts of this

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Sticky squid balls and sesame prawns for dinner / on Instagram...

Sticky squid balls and sesame prawns for dinner / on Instagram http://bit.ly/14ch8Y8

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Sticky squid balls and sesame prawns for dinner

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I need this hat

I need this hat

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I love this fabulous shawl

I love this fabulous shawl:

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Just testing some things

test

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Love Kaffe Fassett ohcomelymagazine: Kaffe Fassett comes to...

Love Kaffe Fassett

ohcomelymagazine:

Kaffe Fassett comes to Wales

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axiatonal: cranial reverberation Love this hat

axiatonal:

cranial reverberation

Love this hat

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Easter flowers from Tom

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One Easter cake with three tiny chicks

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Cornewaaal

We've just had a blissful few days on the Lizard, in Cornwall. the Lizard is the most sourthernly point in Britain, making it useful over the years for communications across the seas.

We stayed in Wireless Cottage, the site of Marconi's radio experiments with the Isle of Wight. It was a lovely cosy cottage, a bit shed like from the outside, but all creature comforts inside. It was very close to the Coastal Path, and so we waved at walkers whilst we ate our breakfast and admired the views and the ponies nearby.

Sadly the Wireless Station museum next door was only open when we were out, but we've heard great things. I really loved this peaceful place, so I'd love to come and stay again, and visit the museum too!

Some of our pony neighbours and Lloyds signal station in the distance, some early sea comms!

We stayed in the shed on the left

The far window was our bedroom window

It was a bit misty and rainy when we arrived

The Lizard lighthouse in the distance. This was on most nights, and a few nights we had the foghorn too

Our living come dining room from one angle. The fire is a clver electric fan heater made to look like a stove.

And from the other angle...

Here's our beautiful bed - it was sooo comfy

On Sunday, we went to Landewednack Church. I was taken with all these crows nesting nearby

The quaint and beautiful church, in a wooded glade, on a walk down to Church Cove. We attended the Palm Sunday service, and were members of a congregation of about 50. Not bad for a village church! They also had  music group which included a small electric organ, violin and guitar. It sounded amazing, especially when they were playing a hymn to the tune of "What shall we do with a drunken sailor?"

Here's Church Cove

And Tom enjoying his walk....

We visited Porthleven too, which is very picturesque.

There were some nutters surfing on the fantastic waves

 And some other nutters standing on the edge of the harbour watching them

Just to prove I still exist

And we're back with the ponies - If these were humans we'd be shouting "Stay away from the edge!"

We also went to Falmouth and to the excellent Maritime Museum. Which has a basement level under the water, where you can see barnacles feeding, and a tower, from which I took this view over the harbour

Back on the Lizard we did have some sunshine. There's a boat out there somewhere

Soooo beautiful!