Tuesday 6 May 2014

A long weekend



I think I've discovered the key to a long weekend which makes it actually feel like a long weekend... It happened purely by chance (as discoveries often do) but it's so simple: stay at home.

Well, stay local anyway. All too often we end up racing all over the place visiting relatives and trying to cram all kinds of things into our weekends. This time we just, well, didn't. 


Instead we went for walks, enjoyed picnics, visited the farm and a car boot sale (one purchase: an enamelware coffee pot) and generally pottered about. We baked (and ate) a big carrot cake. We had buttermilk pancakes, which were like ordinary pancakes only thick and fluffy on the inside, and crisp and golden on the outside. Brunch perfection.


We got lucky with the weather despite forecasts to the contrary, so there was much garden activity to be had. Jay made a miniature herb bed in an old (lined) wooden crate. Contents: sorrel, sage, heartsease (dinky little pansy-type flowers), oregano and two varieties of thyme. I also took some rosemary cuttings. Joe played with watering cans and mud and stones and even helped tidy up. So sweet, my helpful little boy.

I have an old gate leg table which has been stored in Jay's mum's garage for a few years; yesterday we went and collected it. It belonged to my stepdad's mother and is probably 1930s or 1940s; I used to have it by the vestibule in Bond Street and it's varnished in a red-brown colour.

Anyway I decided to try sanding a little area and see what the wood's like underneath. It's actually a really lovely pale colour so we got sanding and I can't wait to have it done and buffed up with beeswax. It'll take a while - not least because we ran out of sandpaper - but I'll share the before and after pictures.

Finally, I haven't abandoned my dressmaking project. I made my bias binding and - fingers crossed - it should be plain sailing from here on in. Touch wood...

Hope you had a lovely long weekend.


8 comments:

  1. I can't believe I missed so many of your lovely posts, but then life has been even crazier than normal here.

    I hope is going well with the moving plans, and Happy Birthday, for whenever it is/was :)

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    1. Hi Annie! I'm the same - I keep intending to 'go visiting' and catch up, planning a big session of just that. Instead I visit a few blogs here, a few there... the scattergun approach.
      My birthday's on the 18th so a little while off just yet but thank you - I'm looking forward to cake :)

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  2. That sounds like a wonderful weekend!

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    1. It was! No travelling and a lot of pottering :)

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  3. I love the tractor photo! You live in a beautiful part of the country.

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    1. Thank you... it's quite rural around here in places (and very flat). I grew up in the hills surrounded by moorland so am unused to such great expanses of sky and fields of crops. It does make for good photos though!

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  4. Gorgeous photos, gorgeous collages - I just love the filters you use. My other half often has to work over the bank holiday weekends so I'm used to staying local and pottering around. I kind of like it to be honest!

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    1. Hi Gillian! Thanks - I'm often to be found at PicMonkey (I'm particularly keen on their filters)... And yes, staying local is my favourite way to spend my time too. I've always been a homebody. Luckily it seems that's now in fashion!
      Hope you had a lovely weekend pottering.
      S x

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