SUNDAY 9TH JULY

I thought I'd do a little catch up post today, even though not much has happened about the house but plans are being made ! Mainly at present concerning the garden.

When the weather warms and the sun shines, it's garden time here in the village. All those plans made over the winter can now be considered and put into action. There are a few plans that have been sitting waiting for a couple of years as other things have taken priority.
But now we are ready to make some big changes and fulfill a long awaited dream.

Today we popped out the Capel Manor Gardens to check up on something and also just have a wander round their plots.

This is the Japanese garden with running water, a beautiful sound.

A cottage style front garden.

A very contemporary garden with large bowls of pink Hydrangea's.

the other side. Capel manor gardens are part of the Capel Manor College of Horticulture and there are many different style of gardens to see and admire. This is just a snippet of whats there because we'd gone to see one part.


But what we'd gone to look at was this.....

Their Gothic folly area.

We have wanted to put a folly in our garden almost since we moved in and a few years back we decided we could build the doorway and window in wood and so we have been getting together the bricks for the walls.

nicely weathered from our friends Tom and Kim. Finally we have decided this is the year it gets built!
and instead of using the wood we are going to treat ourselves to the stone work we need.

I'll say no more here but once work begins I will share the build on our garden blog.

Harry shown earlier this week is my doll from the Sasha's but I have been buying a few BJD dolls as I'm very interested in them due to their ability to be posed and sit etc. I bought a couple of heads which had been badly painted and intend to have a go at repainting them myself.

To that end I have bought some watercolour pencils and pastels which were recommended by some good friends. I'll take photos as I give this a try and you can see how I get along!.

So lots on the list to do garden wise before the end of October and we come back inside to carry on with the hallway!

I also took this photo in the week when the moon was shining through some clouds late one night.

Wishing you all a lovely week ahead.


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