Maybe it’s all those pumpkin seed bracelets my ma used to make me instead of buying me a pippa doll – or a week of bright orange child catchers nose shaped gourds getting to me, but I have a yen for a pair of orange juice jones shoes.

Spurred on by running in to my friend donning a pair in Sainsburys in (that neon – I bought satsumas) and an early morning trip to the flower market for the last of the orange dahlias I now, stand before you contemplating tangerine trotters.

Rather fun, but could we should we? Wonderings for a wednesday.

xxx

My day has mostly involved pumpkins, heavy ones, autumn hydrangeas, crispy ones and red red virginia creepers being twisted around swings. More on that fun soon.

Blackberries. We have a plethora of these buggers on the towpath and I’ve so far been stuck as what to do with them, apart from munch mid pick, twirl in to posies (too obvious but pretty hey?) and then do something fancy with them and Venison.

But really what could be sweeter than a cup of tea, creme fraiche, a raid of O’s Jazz and odd sock collection (orange, pink, and cozy please), and these?

It’s just one of those nights… Autumn fun xxx

We’re always cooking up feasts on the boat but generally it gets shovelled before we can either write down the recipe or take pictures. And that would be be a bad habit to get into anyway…this blog would never end.

Food photography really is a tricky one and I’ve yet to have seen it done as hip as this…and starring four of my favourite things.

xxx

You may well mock but is it a cat, is it a bear? We clearly need to talk. Today the chicken wire cats continue…much to the bemusement of mine.

Happy days, bloody fingers and music for a Monday.

xxx

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Announcements in the telegraph, chicken wire cats, homemade burgers and music.

xxx

Friday fever on the towpath and I’m ordering 12 foot silver birch trees and butterflies from Covent Garden, yup today is decidedly a non flowery day.

It’s also jolted me into digging out my favourite childhood book of the poem by Roscoe – how amazing are these cool illustrations by Alan Aldridge?

A bed time book this sweet little missy was always the page I longed to turn to …and this tho not as pretty or charming, in latter years was just the icing.

…to listening to the Beatles and butterflies birches and books.

xxx

As much as I want this blog to be about lots of lovely things apart from my own flowers sometimes I’m known to sneak the odd gratuitous Gypsy Rose ‘look what I made earlier’ vase on, this is one of those occasions. There have been others.

I love the fact that hydrangeas are still around now, pink, fluffy and Andy Warholesque in the summer, and now as they uncurl wonderful for drying. I really really hope I didn’t sound like Martha Stewart just then… but it’s true.

And as autumn unrolls we get these, luscious reds and burnt pinks – perfect for a charming film execs soiree or for us cascading out of buckets around the boat.

Check out some more heavenly hydrangeas here, and what would Wednesday be without a warble? xxx

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In my eternal search for wallpaper with an edge…I just discovered this amazing illustrator and her beautiful blog. Flowers that rock and roll. LOVE.

Oh and I haven”t done this in a while so … it’s for olives, oregano, oleanders, oranges, orchids, onion flowers, ochre, oval mirrors, ox-eye daisies, openess. Oscar, oars, oberon (Merle), oysters, Orson Welles, obsessions, optimism, oh yes I wills, etoilles, otters, odorantes, obituaries ( in the telegraph please), objets, oeufs en gelee, oscar meyer, otis, opals, oeuvres, oldies (golden), being out to sea and over heels and, Oliver.

What with one thing and another tea and coffee cups have featured a lot this month from meetings out east over tisanes to window displays and boat bricolage.

To running around in old bangers and cutting hundreds of life size paper ones for a window stuffed with brollies followed by a favourite tea and tights shop.

To sourcing heaps o vintage china for a winter wonderland project….a cup and saucer, oodles of lace, an old beaten chair and a christmas posie anyone?

To going offbeat and finding new bloguers…and collecting antique shoes and french fabric flowers over cups of tea. Earl grey and brown sugar please.

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Loving this song more than tea.

xxx

Tune for a tuesday…. Mon petit poisson is for you. xx