Tuesday 3 July 2018

July Flowers and Replies to Saturdays Post

On my table this week are Cornflowers from the cut flower bed, Golden Feverfew,  Lavender in two different shades of  er.......Lavender, a variegated leafy shrub  that is probably an Euonymus and the leaves from a perennial in the garden that hasn't come into flower yet. It must have been there last year, but I don't remember what flowers it had so I'm not 100% sure.......maybe  Phlox?

Cheering up the living room and making me smile.

There were lots of comments on Saturdays post and apologies for not replying. So here is a big thank you to everyone and answer to Athene - Yes Polly Cat can get "through" the chain fly curtain, there's a couple of inches at the bottom and she sort of puts her nose under and squeezes through. She doesn't really go through the chains and is very wary of the noise they make when I go through - she'll get used to it!
Thank you for the good wishes for Florence, she's now fine. They had 4 nights in hospital and got home Friday afternoon. She had antibiotics and steroids and an inhaler to sort out the chest infection or whatever it was and their local GP had already prescribed an inhaler for her last time she was wheezy. I hope this won't be a too frequent event but a little boy who was 2 years old and in the next bed to Florence has had many trips to hospital with the same symptoms since his first time. So Youngest may need to keep a bag packed! They've got the most wonderful playroom and outdoor play area at the hospital, so Florence was easy to amuse once she was well enough to trot around the ward, not so easy for Youngest daughter on the first day when Florence was confined to her cot on oxygen.
The plumber got the shower done, he was quite a good bloke really, just the company not good at telling me what was happening. Now I need to give the room a coat of paint (but not until Wimbledon is finished). I'll be contacting them again for the next phase which is taking the horrible old shower cubicle out of the bedroom and replacing it with a corner bath. Both the bathroom floor and the corner of the bedroom will need new flooring - vinyl type stuff, which will need sorting out before the bath is installed. Then my plan, after decorating the bedroom is to get an old fashioned four-fold screen to stand in front of the bath. In this way when I come to  sell the house sometime it will have more than just the one shower for a 4 bed house, and a bath behind a screen won't be such an eye-sore as the big shower enclosure.
I've got used to the ride on mower now. I often used one to cut the campsite at the smallholding way back, before we expanded it and Col got a mower for the back of the tractor, but that was just a big square field and the garden is a bit more fiddly to get round - only one near collision (with the cold-frame) so far!
How lovely to hear from Lynney in Illinois who will be up early to watch Wimbledon over the next two weeks, really good to share a  TV programme across the pond 😊

And finally - I had to find some positivity  or it would have been a Really Depressing Post!


Back Tomorrow
Sue

PS Coming home from swimming yesterday with Radio 2 on and there was the doctor on the Jeremy Vine programme talking about the diseases that you can get from swimming pools! I turned it off PDQ

35 comments:

  1. So glad Florence is fine now and back home where she belongs.
    xx

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  2. I love the daisies mixed in with the beautiful blue flowers. It is good to hear that Florence is better. I hope she stays well! I'm so happy to hear you made it to the pool this week!

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  3. Thank you, Sue - I'm struggling to find something that keeps flies out but lets a rather dim and nervous cat in! Glad to hear Florence is better.

    It's often best not to know these things (the swimming pool, there are risks in everything but sitting on the sofa all day isn't exactly healthy either. Lovely flowers.

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  4. It's been so hot you could find some wild waters to go swimming in maybe?! A good gulp of slime and whatever should go down a treat 😉

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  5. I agree with Athene about the swimming pool, beautifully put.
    Baths in bedrooms are all the rage at the moment however, beware, everything is not
    always as it seems.
    We booked a room in a B&B and when we arrived there was a bath in the room.
    It was so enormous that one needed a set of ladders to get in and I expected to see a dozen orphans in it aka Mabel Lucy Atwell!
    We negotiated a change of room as there was no way I could have climbed in or out of it and I didn't fancy being rescued like a stranded cat!
    Your flowers are gorgeous, especially the cornflowers.
    Sue

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    1. The bath that was in the bathroom was like that......HUGE and with water pressure here so poor it would have taken hours to fill. I don't think anyone (except grandchildren) ever used it. It was bright red! - not inside !

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  6. Whilst I understand why you are doing the bath in the corner of the bedroom, to make the best of what was there when you moved in, I cannot for the life of me see why baths in bedrooms are all the rage. Bedrooms and bathrooms are two separate things and do not belong together. Lovely and hot here still. Makes all of life easier doesn't it?

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    1. The trouble is that a 4 bed house with just one shower might be a problem to sell when I have to sell (when I can't drive) and there was no way to have both in the bathroom and I didn't want a bath with shower over.
      The huge shower cubicle in the bedroom is big ugly and old so needs removing.

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  7. Peter and I went to swimming and aquafit classes, twice a week, for over 10 years in the 1990s, in public swimming pools, and were never ever ill.

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    1. No I've never been ill from swimming either.
      20+ Fighter jets have just flown over here heading to Norfolk in 3 formations - are we at war?

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  8. I am in agreement with Rachel re the bath/shower in bedroom thing. Apart from anything else, doesn't it make the room damp after ablutions?

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    1. Haven't had any problems with the shower in there, but then I don't take long showers

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  9. ps. Glad that Florence is now OK. Hope that no more trips to hospital are necessary. When my youngest son had asthma as a child I bought our own nebuliser. It was very useful and saved a lot of worry, knowing that we had it to hand when needed.

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  10. Your flowers are so pretty. I have quite a few of those earthenware jars still, and used to keep all my things like rice, pasta, semolina, flour etc in them. I've got more glass jars now but still have these stored away.

    I am so glad to hear that Florence is home now and better, and I do hope it won't become a regular thing. Breathing problems are always so worrying in small children (not much fun for us grown-ups either!)

    Glad you managed a swim this week (and don't even go there with the bugs!!!)

    So this isn't to be your forever home then?

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    1. Can't stay once I can't drive.....it's much too remote. Hopefully that's years away but Be Prepared is my motto!

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  11. Your flowers are lovely, flowers do make you smile when you pass don't they ☺

    Regarding a bath in the bedroom, we decided not to buy two houses during our countrywide search for our home, just because they each had a bath in one of their bedrooms ... and as you know we are not usually averse to a bit of building work. It's just a very strange thing to have, fashionable or not.

    Is one of your bedrooms small enough to convert to a luxury bathroom with a nice claw foot bath, or one of them large enough to divide into a smaller bedroom with an ensuite?

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    1. Everyone has got me worried now about putting a bath in the bedroom!
      There would be room for an ensuite in the bedroom where the huge shower cubicle is coming out of and small bath going in. I just can't cope with the upheaval that would have to happen.
      We weren't put off the house by the shower being in the bedroom. I think the location of the house outweighs everything.

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    2. I think your reasoning for putting a bath in your bedroom is perfectly sound and a future owner could perhaps convert it into an ensuite. One of our sons did that but having the bath in the bedroom certainly didn't put him off buying the house.
      I'm sorry if my comments concerned you. They were really meant to amuse. Sue

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    3. They did make me smile as I could picture a big bath full of rosy cheeked Mabel Lucy Atwell children with lots of bubbles.
      And I never really worry about comments - I'm much too used to doing my own thing!

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  12. I must grow some cornflowers next year, I already have the golden feverfew, what a stunning combination.

    Very glad to hear that young Florence is back home again, fingers crossed that it was a one-off.

    Enjoy Wimbledon!

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  13. I am happy to read that Florence is doing better. I have a daughter who had asthma and it was difficult time. Luckily, she did outgrow it.

    Your flower arrangement is absolutely lovely.

    We enjoy having a bathroom connected to our bedroom. As we get older, that convenience becomes more important. You will find that it will be a good selling point when you eventually put your house on the market.

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  14. I'm happy to hear your granddaughter is doing well now. I love the crock your flowers are in! -Jenn

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  15. So happy to hear that Florence is home.
    Your vase of flowers look beautiful and have reminded me...yet again...that I must find a cornflower plant for our garden. My Grandma had masses of them in her garden and I love them.
    Hugs-x-

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    1. They are annuals so come from seed - I hope these will self seed somewhere for next year

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  16. I'm glad she's home. I hope they investigate allergy testing for her. And keep a log of foods she eats and any potential reactions (although it might not be food. Could be pets, dust, mold - even Boston ferns cause me asthma like symptoms!) :: hugs ::

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  17. Let's hope Florences trip to hospital is a one off and she won't have repeated visits.
    Those flowers are gorgeous - I keep thinking I need to start a cutting garden or patch - I remember you starting yours lat year and thinking what a good idea.
    Baths in bedrooms are a very personal choice but I don't think the bath in your bedroom would be something that would stop the house from selling as the location and land will be a major positive selling point. If it is in a positon where it could be included into an ensuite then that is only a matter of a stud wall at sometime in the future.
    Enjoy Wimbledon.

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  18. A bath in a bedroom doesn't have to be so bad. However, some people have ensuites without a door between the bathroom (with wc) and bedroom. Such a thing would put me off.
    Nice to read that your granddaughter is doing fairly well again.

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  19. That sentence about Positivity says a lot about you Sue.

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  20. Hi Sue, loving the idear of a bath with a screen; I bought one last year to put between my open plan large kitchen and living room(aged gold wooden scroll; really beautiful) as my partner of 30 years would have been so against me buying it (he left me 18 months ago) and when he came here and saw it he was gobsmacked and to my complete surprise said that he liked it; believe me coming from him that was some compliment xx

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  21. I too find it difficult some days, for different reasons, to post a positive upbeat post. WE CAN DO IT and you do it so well. Nothing wrong with a bath in a bedroom. xxx

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  22. So glad Florence is on the mend, children are always a worry. I think when you have a bath in a bedroom it needs to be a statement piece, something a bit special to add to the bedroom.

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  23. The flowers are beautiful. So glad Florence is better and hope she keeps well.

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  24. Your bouquet is beautiful.. I love the true blue of those flowers. I do hope that Florence grows out of the breathing problem. Have I told you that one of my favorite aunts was named Florence? You're doing a lot of updating on your home, bravo! ((hugs)), Teresa :-)

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