Long May She Rain : iphone5

"time is life you know

all its footsteps to and fro

- in January snow"

Peter S. Quinn

January arrived with quite a mellow, lazy air this year. Garden wise, it marks the point where things can only get better, with the ground not even frozen it seemed Spring was only around the corner....until the snow hit of course! We should expect it this time of year, but as all UK dwellers know, we're never prepared and instead burrow ourselves inside to watch 24/7 weather and news forecasts (well, after a brisk turn with our brand new snow shovels!)

Earlier in the month, I enjoyed some indoor blooms (paperwhites from ebay) and had a long-overdue reunion with Mr Bridge, who we introduced to the joys of Tunbridge Wells (my weekend haunt!). They have a great little museum there, with plenty of taxidermy - always a good feature for us! The little dog is a famed attraction, a very regal little chap!

Mollie no longer has the puppy-like enthusiasm for the snow. She used to burrow her way through like a snowplough, trying to eat as much as possible! Now she tiptoes about giving me a pleading look to get back indoors pronto, bless.

I'm also very much enjoying sitting at my desk with a sketchbook again, it's been a few years! I am gathering my ideas together for my stained glass course, I'm hoping to push my own creative skills as I really fancy a challenge!

Wishing you a great week!

Katie

Well I think we've been lucky with November this year (so far!) as bonfire night wasn't a washout we managed to burn the tree stumps that were previously under my new greenhouse! It arrived a few weeks ago, and I have really enjoyed sorting it out ready for springtime! I've even got a reading corner set up so I think i'll be in there for quite a few rainy afternoons with a thermos of tea, lovely!

I've had to say goodbye to my childhood play house this week, luckily it hasn't gone too far, only over the fence where our neighbours children will hopefully spend many happy hours in there! An equally lovely but more grown up structure will be there after christmas...more info about that coming soon...i'm very excited!

I was given this lovely old Raleigh bike by my neighbour, it's rusted to an inch of it's life BUT after some restoration by my Grandad, we're turning it into some original Gardenalia (yep, a real word, buy the book HERE) - just imagine some flowers growing in the basket and maybe some ivy creeping up the frame!

And of course weekends wouldn't be the same without a crisp woodland walk! The colours are still stunning out there. All the pictures in this post are taken on my new Iphone 5, I'm very pleased to have a better camera available apart from my Olympus XA2.