Today is NOT the day for an enjoyable walk as it is blowing a hooley (N-Easterly I think) and I have had to lock the catflap because it was blowing that open and there was a heck of a draught around my ankles in the kitchen. Apparently there is a Yellow wind warning for much of Wales . . . Pippi not impressed by being kept in but she is not being indulged today.
I have been down to Hay & Brecon Farmers and bought a bag of compost for planters and tubs. That feels very positive - though it's staying in the back of the car for the moment. It is NOT a gardening day either! I took a pile of old books (language primers of Tam's, old paperbacks and books I know I won't ever read) plus some clothes Tam had turfed out to the Charity shop too. Another positive.
I have looked long and hard at two things in the living room. One I have had perhaps 10 years and still love but I don't NEED it. I have checked it out with Lens, and it is a late 19th C Italian Giulia Mangani hand-painted enamelled porcelain urn. It is SO pretty, but I need to be reducing my personal "stuff".
It will go to the next Fair with me and look good on the top table.
Then there is this painting which I have had a couple of years, and which has really grown on me. It's the little soft turquoise door which draws you in.
For Sue in Suffolk, a better view. It's a little shabby cabin beside a muddy river. The sort of thing put up piecemeal between the wars and probably without a great deal in the way of planning permission!
So to the Fair it will go. Keith's Lufwaffe photo album is being auctioned next week, so let's hope that does well. They have really gone in positively with the description.
Oh, and that ring with the orange stone? Tam checked it out and says it must have been my aunty's, as it's dated 1974, and is silver gilt, and the orange stone is paste . . . Ah well. I can now share what it looks like, now it's not worth robbing me for!
Tea tonight is going to be a chicken casserole. This is not salad weather here!
The wind has dropped a bit now and I have been able to unlock the catflap, but no self-respecting cat wants to go out in that sort of rain!
You're getting on with it too!
ReplyDeleteIt is satisfying clearing space isn't it... mentally and physically
I have SO MANY things to rehome. SOme expensive/collectable Militaria books of Keith's (Christmas and birthday presents) have no use here now, so will go to the Fairs with me or perhaps be listed on Fleabay. When the weather improves, I will get out in the stables . . . It is very rewarding to move things on, better still when money in return.
DeleteThat ring is really pretty, it's a shame it's not of great value but it's lovely. It's really cold here, but no wind at the moment, thank goodness.
ReplyDeleteIt's different. Needs a jolly good clean though. Hoping there is no snow heading our way as I have a big Fair the first weekend in February.
DeleteDo you have t o use a special method to clean paste stones? Don't they have foil backing that is damaged by liquid cleaners?
DeleteIt hoolied here all night long, the chimney like a stricken banshee! Easing up noticeably now, southerly veering to sou'easter later on. At one point we thought the rotary drier was going to up and leave the garden! Around 7:30 a.m. something, as yet to be determined, was heard banging it's way around the back and side of the cottage.
ReplyDeleteWell, it was blowing from the south here but not the least bit WARM - felt North-Easterly to me! I even turned the hating up to 17 deg. as it was so cold in the kitchen. I lost the rotary drier that was here when we had a gale the year we arrived and my polytunnel took off and took it out and ended up in the pond! Hope no damage at yours.
DeleteInteresting painting even though I can't really work out what it is!
ReplyDeleteI've stood back a bit and taken another photo which gives you a better idea. Just a shabby little riverside cabin.
ReplyDeleteI love that little painting, it looks as though the building will collapse into the background. We've been out and ordered a new bed base with drawers for the spare room. I need all the storage I can get here and they will take the old base away too. We're having sausage and mushroom strogonoff tonight, makes a few sausages go a long way. Xx
ReplyDeleteThe porch bit on the front looks "relaxed" doesn't it?! Storage is always worth having. So many boxes under the beds here - including Tam's belongings which she has no room for.
DeleteSausage and mushroom strogonoff sounds tasty. My chicken casserole was incredibly filling. The chicken should help my energy levels. Enough for another meal and then some meat to go in a stir fry I reckon.
I can't imagine gardening in January, brrr. It's our coldest month and I think the ground is frozen finally. 0* F windchill here but sunny. [-18C?] Wind 35 mph...The ring is lovely, I so wanted to see it. It's a very good repro from the 70s, isn't it.
ReplyDeleteYour sweet kitties. What is the not-Pippi cat's name, I'm drawing a blank this am.
It's hard to get rid of things we love but often we then do not miss them.
Some days it's mild enough here. NOT today though! Glad you like the ring. It's different anyway, but I wish it had been my gran's or g. grans but I thought that the design reminded me of my 1970s engagement ring. Pippi's sister is Lulu (the blue eyed Siamesey one). The boys are Little Whale and his brother Alfie.
DeleteI have enjoyed those things for a while. I am sure I will find other things in the future to enjoy for a bit.
I couldn't think of "LuLu", glad they re staying in. Baby Mo fell on the ice yesterday morning as he ran out for his morning pee. Poor little man.
DeleteI saw the GP and thousands of miles away I must have what you have had! He Rxed steroids and antibiotics: non contagious sinus infection, post-flu lung inflammation and poor lung capacity. I ll be up and busy w the steroids, won't I. sigh.
PS I wonder what a hoolie is?
DeleteI don't really know - just an expression, and it blows one!! Ah - just checked, and it's an Orkney expression from blowing a hoolan.
DeleteOur part of the world is being warned to brace for a weekend storm of wind and heavy snow--it may--or may not happen as predicted. We can always stay warm with the wood stove which would also serve to heat a saucepan or skillet of something as well as boil a kettle.
ReplyDeleteI foolishly pegged bedding on the line today--brought it back in stiff and frozen to finish in the dryer.
I really hope you will be ok where you are and it will go elsewhere (though of course, sorry for the people who DO get it). Your pegging washing out and bringing it in stiff reminds me of my mum doing similar!
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