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.
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.
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