70's

I bought a stack of tupperware at thelocal charity shop and my other half was a bit aghast - he is not too impressed with tango, tobacco brown and avocado green plastic containers but I love them! There used to be a wonderful tupperware party lady called Nelly Pledge, and her whole life was tupperware. I am sure she used to drive round Cheshire with a mini full of orders, plastic cake boxes, keepers and whatever else they were! Ah the days of domesticity!

Came across a book from 1979 with some great crochet stuff too

flora and lettuce

It's funny how you see things and get inspired by the colour or word, or idea. I wanted to make a blanket that's a little bit faded and washed out looking, delicate even, but then it just depends what I have available.
Since my foray into knitting for babes (still don't know who it is who is on the way) then I am looking more at pastels.


As for the home grown stuff, well, we are eating what the little garden produces everyday, although, horrors, the caterpillars and aphids are competing like mad. Had to resort to rather drastic methods to get shut...(Scorpio Moon brings death...)

gifts of icons

Dylan and Mucha - how sixties! how divine!
and the ipod - my birthday presents

A life more or less ordinary

Maybe it's me, but the more sensationalist the big world out there is, the more I retreat to the constant, ordinary and everyday. This morning I got up an hour earlier and sat and read a book outside in the early morning sunshine. There is only so much rushing about anyone can do.
Venus is in Taurus and this sign is earth based, connecting us to the natural world, to nature and the little things that are always around but are easy to miss.

I managed to dislodge a tiny spider in its web, suspended from the garden chair to a pot of geraniums. It went into panic mode, scrunched up and then a few minutes later decided to spin its web again. Within three hours everything was back to normal and the web was restored. It's a good lesson!

The first pea pods are now evident, but the nasturtiums are taking over - next time I will plant less since they grow for fun, but the colours are fabulous.

Broad beans and Libra Moon

At last the season of broad beans is here! I used to not be fond of these fat beans encased in their strange furry pods but we had pasta, bacon, mint with broad beans for supper. Yum. Recipe is here
http://www.riverfordstockley.co.uk/recipes/

It rained heavily last night, which means I don't have to water today and yet the South East has heatwave warnings.

Today the Moon is in Libra and linking with Jupiter and Mercury - all in air signs for communication. Getting over your highest visions, the dreams of what could be and becoming aware of what is truly creative and fantastic gives a real lift to the spirit. Decided to be friendly with everyone I came across, like the lady in the flowershop; we had a little chat about the importance of having flowers around, and sometimes you have to treat yourself, which I have., now that Amy's flower eating cat, Mr D'Arcy has gone home.

This evening, we have another cat guest to stay, Ayesha the elderly siamese with her own unique foibles.