A HOTTER THAN HOT SUNDAY

 

So the sun has got it's hat on and it has come out to play or rather to bake ! Most of us Brit's, have to stay in the shade when it gets this hot, only the younger and foolish go out and about for hours.

We have gone from temps of around 15 /18 degrees to 26 and now 30 in a matter of a few days.

I've even started thinking I may have to buy shading for the flower beds !!! Many years ago we visited a place called Mount Grace Priory in Northallerton, up above Leeds in the middle to north of England. and the reason it's stuck with me so much is that it had a building that's small garden had covered walkways along the side of the garden against the walls with the garden set out in the centre, I came back with plans to encourage Paul to build the same style of walkways round the edges of our flower garden, he resisted long enough for me to give up on the idea ! 

see photo above.

This is similar to the one I saw, that stayed with me but the covered walkway ran down both sides and round the end with the garden in the centre and reached from an opening either side. If we'd have done it, it would have had to have been of wood, due to having fencing not walls around our garden, but now that area of the garden has been paved in the centre so dreams of a covered walkway must remain just that . . . . a dream.

This week has been the Chelsea Flower show, many years ago we did attend one and it's wonderful but very tiring and by about 1 pm the place is heaving with so many people. Luckily we are early birds so we were heading home come around 2pm. But the flower show is shown each afternoon and evening on the bbc , so you can get to see the gardens and plants and if lucky get the names of the nurseys having wonderful displays of plants in the pavilion. Only problem with that is you do/ can land up with boxes of plants arriving as the week goes on. 

I have to say this years programmes were disappointing and we landed up turning some off as it was a repeat of the same thing. What we wanted was more time looking at the gardens and the presenters telling us what that gorgeous Iris was called or that Hosta etc. I didn't really care what Mary Berry or some other celebrity was looking for and then they had Michael Ball singing his latest release !!!!!!!

Oh and they had garden 'influencers!!!!! Telling us what they thought and liked...... the second word is . . . off 

I very much doubt we'll be bothering to watch any of it next year.

Talking of garden's we are slowly getting ours ready for the open day at the end of June, a few small jobs to do but mostly just sweeping and weeding, watering and planting. 

I did intend to get back into the studio last week but did not, but now it's really warmed up I will try and get in there in the morning before it starts getting too warm and sorting things. 

 Today's headliner is the lovely Arabella, who is wearing a Catherine French smocked dress. 

I took the photos of Arabella on Saturday afternoon but was so hot and sunny it was hard to get a good photo.

These two were out in the sun and the first two under the gazebo. Way too hot to be wandering around the garden looking for a good backdrop.

On the sales front, I did sell a doll and a couple of Maileg items, which gave me enough to finish a layaway I had for a Roche doll, so I'm very happy that she is heading my way.

I am also doing a swap one Sasha for another Sasha , but more details about that once it's happened.

 

Oh and I did buy a little Roche doll that popped up on ebay at a too good to walk away price. 

She is a small, 9 inch , soft bodied doll with porcelain head and hands , here she is settling in and making friends with some teddies.

So due to how hot it will be this week, I'll be trying to get a little bit done each day before it gets too hot to be moving about too much.

I need to finish redressing the dolls for this hot weather as well, so another thing that needs to get done.

Have a lovely healthy happy, not too hot, week ahead

Dee