Cats in the Kitchen, Flora in the Garden

Here is another photo of the countryside around my village, this is a view of one of the village churches, which is built above the bend in the river.


Thanks to ms*robyn and Carol for leaving kind comments on my blog. I hope to introduce myself to a few people soon. The weather is still not good. A very cold wind and some very heavy showers of rain. I did manage to get out briefly into the garden at the weekend and managed to remove a bamboo edging which I disliked from my smallest flower bed and replace it with random cobbles, which I think looks much more naturalistic. This small bed was my herb patch last year but I was given a flower bed's worth of perennials from a departing neighbour, and I had to put the herbs back into pots and use the bed for the perennials. So it is herbs in pots for this summer. One or two of the plants I was given I am having difficulty identifying from their leaves, so it will be exciting to see what flowers they produce. I will have to call this bed 'lucky dip bed' until I know what is in there.

I have decided on bad weather days this summer I will concentrate on emptying and reorganising all my cupboards, drawers and baskets. I collect far too many magazines that I cannot bring myself to throw out thinking I might need them one day. So I am sitting with piles of magazines tearing out articles, pictures etc that I like and then getting rid of the magazine. I will place the articles in folders [ a good excuse to buy some lovely new stationery, an addiction of mine] and use any pretty pictures for a scrapbook that I am longing to begin making, as I have suddenly discovered altered books etc, which I intend to find out about.