The new garden

Just a small taster. This is the top third, seen from my bedroom window. Below this are an area to turn into the kitchen garden and a further space below that for fruit trees and wildlife. That is where the badgers lurk! The land falls away so there is a good view of greenery outside, very peaceful to wake up to in the morning.

The bedroom, however, was PINK. Time for a change

When the weather is dryer I will take more photos. Just now we are busy getting ready for a move in four days time! This has included repainting two rooms and getting a cooker installed as the previous residents removed theirs and scrapped it!! How helpful.

the garden through other eyes

My good man has a friend who paints lovely things using ink. Recently we gave her some photographs of the garden, this is what came back to us

It is a beautiful and unique memento of a garden we have loved and are leaving, captures the spirit of the place in a way photographs can rarely do and will be much treasured in our new home.

She has a website here where you can buy all sorts of delightful things.

How Many???

House moving is always an opportunity to reassess the physical baggage we accumulate through being stationary. I have been in my current, much loved space for 8 years almost to the month.

It has been a place of caring for my mother, a sanctuary, a miracle of synchronicity in the way we acquired it, flat by flat, when needed.

However, it has also been a space into which more has been put, than has been removed!

I am sorting my clothes drawers, T-Shirt drawers first, smart and gardening. I have HOW many?

I rather think fifty four is more than enough for any gal!!!! Time for some serious downsizing, simplification, relinquishing. A good thing to be doing after a retreat.

I have a friend, Pen, who lives deep in the sacredness of simplicity. She writes beautifully and lives a life of profoundly though out, but very gentle principle. She is a sweet and as characterful as her pictures suggest.

retreating

I have just spent the week here

The Barn Retreat Centre

I'll blog more about it later, it is a wonderful place to be with mindfulness at its heart. But for now I have a house to sort out as we are moving on Monday week so all is in flux.