Who did the rain dance?

Am home after some time in Shropshire and Normandy. Some time in the rain!! Well only 2 completely dry days in 2 weeks. Still walked on the beach, managed 2 barb-b-qs, several bottles of red wine, hunting old lovely things for the home and garden in Brocantes and read several books. One of which I must mention called Knitting by Anne Bartlett. (ISBN 0718149017) Not to show you how to do this, no patterns included, but a really good read. The sock pattern was from daughter for her to do but guess who ended up knitting them.

The garden has been battered by strong winds and torrential rain and the grass is about a foot high, too wet to consider cutting it. The Passionflower has grown so much I reckon someone has been giving Guiness or some other such stuff as it is now encroaching onto the footpath outside our garden wall and will soon start tripping passersby up, especially when they stop to admire it and do not look where they are going. Tomorrow I must try to tie it up somehow. I can only say it was the best value I have ever had from £3.99 from a car boot sale. I have purchased a second one from the local florist for a second part of garden wall and see if this does as well. We hope to have more fruits from it this year as we only had 4 last year.

We had some bargains in France. A lovely old washstand, some enamel pots for plants in the garden and some old floral fabric which cost just 2 euros. Oh boy its raining again please sun come back again. I know I shouldnt complain when some parts of the world have droughts lasting for years but everyone knows that we have to complain about the weather in England its the law. Hope everyone is well and I look forward to catching up with all your blogs.