I’ve oft been accused of being girly…and frankly don’t care. After a week of painting portholes a chalk colour, white can only be all right in my book, these gorgeous pics are from the lovely Atlanta Bartletts latest book and new online shop where not only do you get to salivate over gorgeousness but purchase great style too.
Check out the potted lettuces in wash tubs. And lovely flowers hey?
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To flowers. Some may argue on the case of the peche Carnation but I’m not so sure. 6O’s flower fashion at its best courtesy of Robert Doisneau and his camera.
Swoon , I even love the dodgy curled upwallpaper. My friends Carolineno and Tim introduced me to the wonders of The Selby a while back and this week, inspired, I’m tarting up the boat for a potential location shoot and getting the book.
In a last fit of rebellion before adulthood I’m going to haphazardly hang a garden swing from a beam in our boat, am sure there’ll be tutts and disapproval but the sort of people who live in Selby residences do this too, so it’s okay.
Read on….ideas to steal, clashing punk rock vases of flowers to disapprove of and delicious nosey parkering.
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Getting dizzy with impending mamadom ( yup the fear is kicking in now), I’ve been told to spend the next seven weeks reading and watching films thus avoiding all Gypsy Rose style charging about. In short no ladders, heavo ho’ing, travelling or getting in a tizzy. Hmm does this include painting?
Ravishing reads are getting stock piled (love these covers and Nancy in her lilac pose), the yanking of captains chain about music mixes is in progress and tho I’ve utterly depleted my Agatha selection am now on to other heroines. Miss Mitford is amusing, a few angsty Iris Murdoch secrets are on order and St Trinians naughtinesses is rife.
This week The Lady Killers and brrr, Love in a Cold Climate…
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I have become less of a foodie floosey but something of a baker whilst pregaloo, my courgette cake as promised alas crumbled so no pictures but I can still make a tart with a heart. Rainy day fodder.
Food blogging has been a discussion of late, mixed with marigold mayhem is this too much of a deft homage to Constance Spry? Hey there is a chive flower in there.
A full Captain thinks the jury’s out, my fave still inspires, as for Mr Coren…
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P.S This post was interrupted by a dishy baker on BBC2.
So this is our pretty new rowboat acquired last weekend. A romantic new addition to the family, she leaks and is fairly wobbly but rather Arthur Ransome …
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Last of the floppy guelder and spring tulips and a hello to honeysuckle. Flowers can take a funny long journey…
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