Electric light

fades to soft grey.

Scary numbers

Many thanks for my Lemonade award. But it has unwittingly plunged me into the scary world of exponential growth.

I know that I should do the decent thing and pass this award on, as instructed, to ten other people, but here's the problem: we are soon going to run out of people on the planet, never mind deserving bloggers, to satisfy this generous and well intentioned impulse.

I'm no mathematician, but I remember being told the story of the grain of rice on a chessboard when I was a child, and it gave me a headache, rather as the notion of infinity still does. Wikipedia tells the story here.

So I give you instead this restful picture of some moss growing on a brick wall and then

we should all have a nice cup of tea and a sit down to drive away the scary thoughts.

 

Hellebores and bathroom tiles

These original tiles from the 1890s suddenly reminded me of the Hellebores I'd seen

 very early last year at Nyman's Gardens in West Sussex.

Chair lift

This old Lloyd Loom chair was neither U nor B.

So I gave it a lick of leftover paint, suitably called Timeless,

 which these chairs certainly are,

pulled 79 tacks out of the frame,

and made a cushion for it out of an old pillowcase and an IKEA pillow.

It's a bit more B and a lot more comfortable to sit on.

Nursery rhymes

I'm using these pictures of a vintage nursery curtain to experiment with picture layout.

And it's been fun spotting the nursery rhymes:

Simple Simon (met a pieman) 

Three Blind Mice (see how they run)

Sing a Song of Sixpence (a pocket full of rye)

Goosey Goosey Gander (whither shall I wander)

The Queen of Hearts (made some tarts)

Humpty Dumpty (sat on a wall)

Hey Diddle Diddle (the cat and the fiddle)

Little Miss Muffet (sat on a tuffet)

Old Mother Hubbard (went to the cupboard)

Bye Baby Bunting (daddy's gone a-hunting)

Are children still taught these I wonder.

Ha! I see it didn't work at all when I published - nothing like the preview.

Back to the drawing board.

Surprise

surprise,

look what I found when I ventured out into the back garden with some spent hyacinths.

Sunny hall

A day early I know

but we were ready for it to go

and it revealed some sunny corners.

Our favourite walk

at Hope Gap.

Singing along yesterday...

...to Victoria Wood

Cluedo and Happy Families

and two soups