Thank you so much for all your lovely comments on my last post. I am under the weather at the moment and send you a gorgeous peony to say thank you everyone. I have a very nasty sinus cold. I am determined for it not to be flu! Before the week is over I must track down some lovely soft pink peonies as they are definitely in my top ten flowers.

On Saturday Pasha and I went to see Michael Morpurgo or Murpingo as he calls himself. He was extremely entertaining. Pasha loves his books (119) and following story writing at school, she enjoys writing every night before she goes to bed.
I did some of the Brighton Artists Open Houses with a friend. We took our eldest daughters. They had fun skipping along and marvelling or laughing at some of the things on show. I am currently reading Life is a Verb as recommended by Sweet Myrtle. Carrying out the instructions in the book involved me saying 'That is very unique' often. Some of the art trail is fantastic and some is well erhhhh UNIQUE!!!!
Above are a couple of drawings from a black and white themed community
centre that were showing lots of children's art. I really like these two pictures. The glamorous little girl is great and the other face
just makes me laugh! I imagine myself to be like the girl on the left
but in reality appear like the picture on the
right!!!!!
The Open House Trail is very civilised and we stopped at one house for afternoon tea. Isn't that indian patchwork just fantastic!
We all bought nothing until we got to the last house! Then I spent up. I love this house. Kim Glass has a very interesting house with a little studio at the foot of the garden. These wood work pieces are infact made by Helen Sinden who exhibits work at Kim's house.
I love this little wooden plaque. The E is obvioulsy a 3 turned round. Perfect for me as I have three children.
This is one of Kim's paintings. I find her smudgy (non-technical term!) way of painting very beautiful. We had a great day = thank you Andrew for looking after the surplus children. They had a great time at the Wilderness Wood making camps, eating brownies, drinking hot chocolate, zip wiring and playing fairy houses.
Snot ridden on Sunday I had to get up early to be able to breath! We sat in the work room and painted. The girls water coloured and I painted some acrylic canvases to be embellished. Hopefully, I will be able to show you them later in the week.
Skyla produced this cheerful rainbow canvas. The afternoon was spent planting all the wide range of plants (gourds to verbena) that I had bought on Friday when I met my friend, Louise for lunch.
One comment I had recently from Greedy Nan was where was I doing my car boot sale. I would like to reassure you Greedy Nan that there was nothing up your street there to buy. The above being an example! We fortunately raised enough to buy one of the bikes we need to get this summer - yeah! She also asked which house was I showing at in Brighton - I'm not. Worthing is doing their own thing in the summer!
Jasper took this photo this morning. Mmmmmm nice debris, brown paper bag - open house shopping, book open - story writing from Pasha, and yes that is a bright pink watering can in the middle of the table left over from the garden exploits. I am just glad he didn't take a picture of the floor surrounding the table. How much stuff can one family dump in one room? Answer = quite a lot! Byeeeeeee!