Spring Cleaning

Spring is in the air and unusually for me, it's making me want to clean and tidy and generally act all domesticated. We moved house about 2 years ago and the storage unit has been heaving with stuff ever since. We're finally getting round to tackling it properly. The house is now full of boxes and my enormous collection of Sylvanian Families but we'll get it all sorted eventually, I'm sure. I keep getting distracted by random discoveries though:

This rather funky coffee pot. I can't find anything about this specific design online but it's by Ridgway and an identical shaped but differently patterned design (Homemaker) is dated to 1955-68. An example is held in the V&A - ain't that swanky?

One of my brother's old pieces of schoolwork. Apparently I was ferocious even at age 4.

A bunch of dresses that need altering. I really must get cracking with the sewing machine.

Oh, and a hilarious assortment of family photos. Some of my mum's old outfits really do deserve a post of their own. Need to find the scanner first though...I know it's in a box somewhere...

What A Difference Some Sunshine Makes

I'm still not feeling quite in the swing of things, blogging-wise. February is just a bad month overall for me and I fear that if you're expecting nice outfit posts or interesting thoughts on life you may well have to wait till March. I'll do my best to keep it entertaining on here but I just won't have quite as much time as usual.

The bad mood did lift a little today though. It was sunny! I feel like I haven't been out in the daylight and sunlight properly for weeks now so this really did blow the cobwebs away a bit.

I have no weekend plans whatsoever. This may spell out lonely boredom to some people but I so rarely have absolutely nothing to do that it's a delightful change for me. I've read three books, watched some football, drunk some wine and also took myself out for a walk in the sunshine this afternoon whilst listening to my very favourite podcast (hello Jason Isaacs).

It's almost spring, hurrah!

I didn't go far but within walking distance are some extremely nice houses and the river. I do love a bit of interesting architecture so set me down somewhere with my camera and I'm as happy as larry just wandering around and taking photos.

Old fashioned lamp-posts

Beautiful houses. Wish I was rich.

Quirky little windows in quirky little houses


And the river. Lovely.
Hmmm, not such a lovely view of a power station.

ps - also watched the rather excellent new Neil Oliver BBC2 programme about ancient Britain today. I could listen to that man saying "frozen tundra" and "forest of birch and alder" all day. He's almost as good as Professor Brian Cox.

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