New house, new world, new garden
I haven't blogged since March! That's terrible. No excuse and every excuse: packing and moving and getting out of the rental house and into the new one. I probably could and should have blogged but I didn't so here I am now. We are here. We are in. The sitting room is calm and peaceful with our books on the shelves and our cushions on the chairs. The view across the field is almost as lovely as the one up to the hills. The amount of the glass still surprises me after so many years of our seventeenth century farmhouse, built for shelter, not for light. I love the cladding too against the white render. It feels like a house which belongs here even though it is yet to have a garden. I have got to know the sheltered sunny places to take a cup of tea and dream about the garden we will create. There are still things to do and in a couple of weeks the green roof will arrive for outside the guest bedroom and over the front porch. ...