Wednesday 5 June 2013

Wednesday.

Been a full, but enjoyable day. Got up  quite early and went to the 7.30 a.m. service. Quick brekky then motored over to the Long Melford Antique fair.  Bought a miniature mahogany corner cupboard (16 inches high by 12 inches across, with two shaped shelves inside. Will photograph it when I've put it up in a corner of the drawing room.  Then drove home via the back lanes and took the below three photographs of early thatched houses. ALL of them on the Essex side of the border. 




After a (latish) sandwich lunch we both zizzed for half an hour or so, before going out again to have tea with our friends David and Sue at the other end of the town. Their garden is as full of aquilegia as ours (Sue uses the lovely old English name for them - columbines). They both picked the odd flower off their plants to show us the best ones. Ann bought the picked heads home in her handkerchief so as not to waste them, and made the below illustrated flower arrangement by floating them in a bowl of water.


The centre flower at the bottom of the picture is a pale pink with FIVE layers of petals! David is convinced that these flowers hybridise regularly to produce new and different ones every year, and I think there may be something in this theory.  Been a long day, but I think the new (increased) dosage of  pills are starting to work, as I've only had to use the heart spray once today. But I'm about ready to hit the sack now.

 So- Goodnight All.

2 comments:

Crowbard said...

I was trying to recall what a Latin Sandwich was, Mike. Visions of foccaccia piled high with spaghetti and prosciutto di Parma and riccota... then I realised I had mis-read latish sandwich...
It can be amusing - this going daft business!

Unknown said...

Been talking to our friend Audrey, who is something of an authority on garden plants. She says David is quite right about his idea that columbine hybridise very readily.