Firstly, many thanks to the gorgeous people that emailed and left comments checking in on me. I was so touched to hear from you, and Julia, your comments had me giggling (they always do though!). We actually have been sort of at sea! We have been away at the beach house, a place so lovely but also so remote that there is no mobile service and also no internet service. I know, it is kind of hard to believe in this day and age, but yes such places do exist!
The other reason for the lengthy hiatus is that our house is currently a construction site. Anyway more about that to follow soon but for those that have asked, we are 99% sure that we are going to paint the house Dulux Oyster Linen, the same colour as the house in the first two images of last post, with chalk USA trims. The front door will be either black or gunmetal grey but this is still to be decided, ...the door knocker I have chosen is black and is currently on it's way from France. When it gets here I will make a final decision regarding the house/door colour! More about the renovation to follow very soon!
Meanwhile, here are some holiday snaps:
... and, despite the construction site it is wonderful to be home! I am currently watching the Royal Wedding (and typing this!) in a room in which two of the walls are comprised solely of orange plastic. The doors out to the backyard are nailed shut and the rain is slowly drifting in. Nevertheless, I am curled up on the couch, cocooned in a blanket that my grandmother knitted for my brother when he went off to boarding school at Timbertop (where Prince Charles went briefly), enjoying a glass of champagne and reminiscing about the last itme I watched a British Royal Wedding. It was 1981 and we were on posting in India. I think my parents might have been out or away as I watched the Wedding with my Ayah (nanny) and all the other servants and their families, in the servants quarters behind our house. There were at least a dozen of us squashed into a tiny room, watching the wedding on an even tinier black and white television, but I can still remember how thrilling it all was to a little 9 year old. It was the only thing that I saw on television in India and in English during the course of our posting to Delhi.
Hope all are well and I will be along to visit you all soon. xx
edited to add:
Julia, this is the new spa:
