frayed at the edge

Not quite .......

........ a place for everything, but we have just about squeezed in everything that we brought over to the flat.  These are some of my orchids, which have survived being moved ....... they are prone to dropping all their flowers if they are unhappy

 

we usually just have cacti in the flat, as they are low maintenance, but of course we have had to find room for the house plants

 

I have always had house plants, except for when I had two brief stays in an apartment in Singapore.  When Stuart was little, macramé plant hangers were all the fashion, so the plants were hung from the ceiling away from little fingers!

 

I know my daffodils look a bit ill-arranged in the jug .......

 

....... but it's because there is a section in the middle of the jug that you fill with ice to keep your white or rose wine chilled

 

so far I have only found a place to hang up this calendar

 

I don't really want to put pins in the walls to hang up my almost naked men

 

my delightful Minions (which I bought half-price last month!)

 

and my fabulous tractor calendar, which Stuart and Alison gave me for Christmas

 

the bed in the back bedroom is the opposite of the princess and the pea ....... instead of a great pile of mattresses, there is a great pile of quilts and wallhangings

 

 

it's Friday, so that means cake!  I had to pop back over to Hawick this morning, to have my poor sore leg treated by the nurse.  As always I was early, so I popped into the coffee shop in one of the local supermarkets, and treated myself to a pot of tea and a chocolate fudge cake

 

I removed the paper wrapper to reveal this beautiful confection - I am sure it contained my entire calorie allowance for the day! 

 

tomorrow I am heading over to Kelso for an Abbey Quilters' Linus/UFO day.  I haven't seen the girls for several weeks, so it will be good to see what everyone is working on (and catch up on the gossip news!).  I hope you have a good weekend, love Anne

A very tasty scone!

As there has been a definite dearth of sconnage on the blog recently, I thought I would pop in and share this delicious scone which we shared this morning in Café Crema in Berwick ..........

 

cheese and sun dried tomato, still warm from the oven!

A moving tale!

 This was my studio when I was in the middle of packing it all up

 

and this is how it looked on Monday afternoon - after I had vacuumed all the thread off the carpet!

 

I was just thinking that I would miss watching the many birds that visit the garden .......

 

....... when this little fat robin popped in to say goodbye

 

this was the very last box to be packed ........ and the last things in were the coffee mugs and the kettle!

 

however, today we have embraced our interim stay in the flat, and headed to the Garden Centre for lunch.  There was a special deal of a bowl of soup and a cheese scone - perfect!

 

we then went for a walk along the promenade.  We would have walked on the beach, but I have a bit of a sore leg, as I had a mole removed (on Friday the 13th, I should have known better and changed the appointment!) and unfortunately the stitches became infected, so I am hobbling about the place!

 

but if we had wanted to walk on the beach, we would have had a problem using this stairway, as recent storms have deposited all sorts of detritus

 

we weren't quite sure what this little beastie was, grinning at us from the beach

 

but we were impressed with this dragon, guarding a house

 

this tree is very, very big ........ but we could see fresh saw marks way up at the very top, where it has been trimmed by a tree surgeon

 

another old post box to add to my collection

 

it was cheering to see a splash of colour

 

this was the entrance to the Berwick and Tweedmouth Gaslight Company

 

Malcolm wouldn't let me play with the machines!!

 

as we headed back to the car, we saw one of the little fishing boats coming in

 

and to finish, a bit of fun!  Is this a little ghost looking in the window to say goodbye

 

and was this his little friend?  No, it's bird poo that I hadn't cleaned off our bedroom window!!