Birthday celebrations on the Island

This year we decided to go to the Island to visit friends and family for my birthday. We had a jolly jolly good time! We went for walks, ate lots of food, went surfing and spent time with some of our favourite people...I didn't want to leave!

1. Mother aka Piglet in her garden 2. Piglets new and awesome mirror 3. Throness bay 4. Selfies at Thorness bay 5. Wild Orchid 6. Gurnard at its finest 7.Breakfast on the balcony 8. Birthday cake from my sister in law, so so good! 9. My favourite girl in the world, being totally adorable!

How does your garden grow?

We got a chance to go to the Brighton and Hove Open Gardens on Sunday, I can honestly say that it was one of the best days out I've had in such a long time. We met the sweetest most genuine people and saw the most beautiful secret gardens in the middle of the city that you could never imagine to be where they are. I can't wait to have a big garden! It's made me want to live the 'good life' even more, but also made it even more real that it is actually a possibility in the near future.

Pallets for compost heap.

Strawberry tree? it had beautiful peeling bark.

Snail shells on top of canes in the ground.

We had cake in every garden...well, it would have been rude not too.

Such a sweet idea for when your children have grown out of their wellies! Must remember this one.

I have a mild obsession with chickens at the moment too, these girls were lovely.

A sweet old lady playing wonderful melodies in a stunning garden full of strawberries and flowers.

When in Verona

My love surprised me on our anniversary with a trip to Italy. He gets all the points, what a gem!

I love it there so much, if I had no ties I think I would move there in a shot.

 

 

 

 

 



The Little Island

We are very lucky to have a little cabin on one of the islands in the Thames, it's been in our family for about 30 years and when  my brother was little, my dad was a milkman and my mum was a trainee nurse they used to live in a shack there, it got rebuilt about 15 years ago.

 

Me and Si have just started going there, I don't know why we haven't before, it oinly takes an hour to get there and its a tranquil little bubble for BBQs, fishing, eating and sleeping.

 

 

 

I love it.

 

A little bit chilly...but I like it!

We found an out side swimming pool near to where we live today, I don't know what it is about outdoor pools but I love them, it's a much more pleasurable experience than our local inside-over crowded-filthy-far-too-hot pool. Check out the sky though, it wasn't the perfect weather and I did loose the feeling in my hands, but totally worth it.

Grey Grey Summer

When the weather is as rubbish as this in the middle of the summer, its easy to start to hibernate again. I've been resisting this urge because although it's grey and drizzly it's still kind of warm, so we went strawberry picking.

Strawberries and black currants

 

It's hard to take a good photo when you're stuffing your face with freshly picked strawberries!

Mr seems to be getting the hang of this photography malarky, I really like this one.

I love this one - two of my faves!

Jam recipe coming up next...

Birthday celebrations

I turned 24 last week and had some lovely celebrations! Mr et Moi went to London and stayed at my parents chalet, it was SO nice! We are deffinatly going to go up more often now as it only took 50 minutes to get there! I have no idea why we havn't been there before seeing as its been in my family for 30 years!

The next day we went to the beautiful Kew Gardens, we had planned to go into the city too but there was just too much to see at Kew.

Kew has some amazing house boats...I had a bit of house envy, I don't think Mr's 6ft4 would do very well on a boat though!

When we got back home we met up with some lovely lovely friends and went dancing and for a roast, such a good birthday.