Magnolia, Camellia, Grape Hyacinths And At Last, Some Sewing!

The Magnolia has been beautiful this year.  I took these photos about a week ago when it was at it's most glorious.

The poor camellia has suffered.  Last year, I moved it to what I thought would be a better place for it.  Although I watered it everyday, fed it and used camellia compost it has only produced six or seven flowers this spring, the rest of the buds fell off (that may have been frost).  The leaves have gone a bit yellow but with a bit of TLC maybe next year it will do better.

I love the colour of these grape hyacinths.

So here's what I've been up to in the last couple of days.  One of my favourite things to do is, sew all the scraps I have together.  There are no rules, you don't have to be that precise, (well just a bit), and you end up with a whole new piece of very interesting fabric.  

Just a few scraps........

Tah dah!  Pieces of fabric for my future project.

Do you know, I've been quite overwhelmed by the lovely comments you leave.  They make my day and I find I can't wait to see who's been visiting and I have nine followers too.  If it wasn't for Gill at Gillyflower I may well have left blogging behind but her encouraging words gave me the push I needed to keep going.  Thank you Gill and thank you to everyone else, this blogging malarky brightens my day.

Enjoy the sunshine.

Lesley

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Box of Smiles

This box arrived a couple of weeks ago.

The postman said it had made his van smell.  I wasn't sure if that meant he liked it or not!

My house smells lovely.

I need to get on with some sewing and start using the lavender but in the meantime, I've left the bag open.  

The smell of lavender just makes me smile.

Thank you for the wonderful comments, they make me smile too.

Lesley

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In My Sisters Garden

I love going to my sisters house.  She's a very keen gardener and will happily leave the housework until much later, who can blame her with the weather we've had this past week.  Here are a few photos I snapped while there.

The smell from these hyacinths was just wonderful.

I have lots of photos waiting in the wings to show you.  I've got a bit behind with my posts but it's going to have to wait until Wednesday as The Col has a couple of days leave.

My sewing room is feeling neglected too, I must try and sew something very soon.

Tilly had just seen a squirrel, good thing it was up the tree!

Be back on Wednesday, in the meantime, have a lovely week, even if the weather isn't quite as good as it has been.  Although, I think Gillyflower in Kent is due to get the best of the sun, lucky you Gill.

Bye for now

Lesley

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Mother's Day Flowers

Just when I thought he'd forgotten (no card yesterday), the door bell rang at 9am this morning, yes, this morning, Sunday and there stood the lady from the local flower shop with my 

Mother's Day flowers.

I am the happiest Mum in the world.

Happy Mother's Day.

Lesley

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Photos From The Weekend

Hi everyone,

Thank you for all the lovely comments, they're very much appreciated.  Welcome to my two new followers too.  I'm enjoying reading your blogs, it's really wonderful to have so many really gifted people who inspire me on a daily basis.

Here are the photos I couldn't, for whatever reason, upload to my blog earlier this week.  Not sure what I was doing wrong but I feel it was probably me and not my Mac, as that seems to know what it's doing.  So, here are just a few visitors we get in our garden.

This squirrel is a frequent visitor.  Now, The Col would be happier if said squirrel wouldn't visit but I quite like it.  AND, I suspect that when I'm not at home, he chases it away.  He or she never eats all the fat balls and is always ready to pose for the camera.

That's the washing line going through the top of the photo, I really should move it.

The Col's favourite, Goldfinches.  Hard to believe that such a colourful little bird is native to England, they look like they should come from the tropics.  At the weekend we counted nine of them on the feeders.

Badger's never keep still, they're always on the move.

And then, one of them hears something and they stay completely still for about as long as it takes me to press the button.

And then back to the business of eating peanuts

Another noise!

  This time they did hear something.  Just managed to catch this and then they were gone.

Until next time, thanks for dropping in.

Lesley

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Yippee!

Thank you, thank you, thank you

to Gill from Gillyflower who has given me a Liebster Award.

I am absolutely delighted.  The Col is just ever so slightly amused and bemused by all this blogging stuff and doesn't really get it, but I do and I'm chuffed to little mint balls, as I didn't think my warblings warranted an award.

I will of course, pass on the award but you'll have to bear with me.  I don't really have a clue how to link things or get things to be in places I'd like them to be.  It's just taken me an hour to work out how to get the Liebster Blog logo thingy to be on this new post.  I've probably done it the hard way but it's there and that's an achievement.  Not bad for 0818.  Right, I'm going to get a cup of tea in celebration and then I'll be back.

Ok, I'm back.  I was going to post some photos I took over the weekend but for some reason I can't get to them from the insert image button.  Never mind, I'll try again later.  Do come back later and I'll see if I can sort the photos out.  Thanks for dropping by.

Lesley

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