Lavenderhouse

Sunshine

Still a very bad blogger.  Will try to get in to the swing of it soon.  This morning was a disgusting grey drizzly morning.  I walked along the seafront with Sarah, chatting, my umbrella blowing inside out intermittently - joy!  Thank goodness for the distraction of friends from the approaching autumn.  I am definitely a summer person.  I love summer flowers and the warmth of sunshine on my bones.  I flipped through the holiday photographs and remembered how lovely and bright the walls of the house in France made everything look.

 Nothing like an interesting shadow (the seat of the chair) to prove the sunshine is good and strong.

I remember taking this photo just loving the sunlight making its unique pattern in the swimming pool water.

I love turquoise.

I love this photograph.  The splash is from one adult and four children jumping in the pool.  The joy they all whooped just prior to splashing in to the pool still puts a smile on my face.

This is the view from my sunbed that I lazed on far too much (or now I think probably not enough!) I just loved the fresh green and bright red against the fantastic blue sky. 

I am glad to say that the sun has come out whilst writing this post - a watered down version but at least it is still here.  The sea is silvery and glittery rather than turquoise.  Oh well suppose we have to welcome the changing of the seasons but this year I am definitely wishing the summer to stay.  I have enjoyed the sunshine and the heat but need just a little bit more - please?

Zebra Tail

This was a tricky one to categorize!  The first picture is of my huge kitchen table.  There are five of us and when people come to visit there needs to be somewhere for them all to sit.  When we are on our own we use one half of the table for art and making things and then the other half for sitting down together and eating.  As stated on a previous blog the oil cloth desperately needed changing.  The table is made from two nice but cheap glass tables from Next, which can be reused in the future.  On the top is a whacking great piece of MDF.  The lovely pink chairs are Panton.  They were not mega expensive in the scheme of things, but I LOVE THEM!  They actually make me happy!

This is the lovely oilcloth close up!

I bought these three glass shapes from the Country Living show in London in the spring time.  I have finally got round to hanging them up!

This is one of my favourite ones:-

We ventured towards the paddling pool again after school.  It was so windy and freezing though.  I treated the children to an icecream.  This is Jasper's favourite part of a Smartie Pop Up Icecream.  I think he gets the idea of blogging very well at age 4.  I asked him to arrange his hand nicely for the photography and he obliged without any questions!

Whilst the children were being brave in the freezing cold water I was going to attempt to do some more reading - did not manage it though.  Skyla, practised her spellings and I managed to make the zebra tail that I needed to for Skyla.  She is dressed as a zebra in the Lower School show tomorrow. Yikes - I have got to go in at lunch time and help with all the face painting.  Thank goodness it is a tiny school!

Jasper managed to tuck away in the paddling pool bag a packet of strawberry spaghetti strings.  Despite having already had an icecream I thought it was mean to say no considering his bravery with the cold water!  This picture definitely captures him snuffling down some as quickly as possible as he can't quite believe his luck!