Summer wanderings

As I am now on summer holidays I am attempting to record my travels daily using my mobile!
Day 1 was spent at a wedding and beside my lovely devon seaside...

A Perfect BirthDay

Last weekend it was my husband's 40th birthday. His present was an iPhone and I was lucky enough to be able to play with Instagram for the day! We started the day with a picnic on the beach...

After enjoying cava, coffee and croissants and a beautiful warm sunny morning by a blue sea we headed home to get ready for a glamourous lunch at the wonderful Broomhill Art Hotel....

Me in my new pink dress from H&M

We had two bottles of champagne from his sister so gratefully enjoyed one with our lunch whilst looking out of the french doors into the sun...

The restaurant is part of the slow food movement and my  

Aubergine bean casserole with goats’ cheese, bulgar and spring vegetables was utterly gorgeous. Even more perfect that it was topped with a flower!

After a beautifully leisurely lunch we went to play in the sculpture garden...

The garden shed

Oh my goodness! Lately we have been looking at sheds! I have been half-heartedly tagging along but actually once inside them feel overcome with the giddiness of playing in a Wendy house! Today I found this via the fabulous Pinterest and am truly excited. Not sure how it will fit in with the the plan for a recording studio though!

Sandra Foster did the carpentry herself to create this tiny Victorian house using vintage columns, flooring and wavy glass windows. It is just so delightful. Her blog is gorgeous too.

Oasis New Vintage

I love this video and the new dress collection. Even better I have found a new band too. The music is called Geeky Lover by Marble Fairy.

Wild at Heart

Really love this by Anna Garforth, created with masking tape!

Pretty, pretty blogs...

How pretty is this papier mache teacup made by Connie from The Paper Dialogues ? I can't wait to make one!

Following her links to the instructions also led me to discover the prettiness of Ann Wood's creations! There are just so many gorgeous pictures to look at, but I managed to choose just three...

Thank you to Creature Comforts for sending me on this little trail of pretty things!

The Very British April

I love the fact that I only had to work for 7 days in April! Along with the beautiful weather, wasn't it just like the summer holidays came early? Hence lots of adventure and wandering. Here are just a few images from the last month...

What a joy to wake up on that first day with a long holiday stretching before you...

The flowering of our wisteria was perfectly timed this year so that we wereat home to enjoy it...

Flowers also featured heavily in our sunny adventure to South Devon!

We were so excited to discover this bluebell wood on top of an ancient hill fort, just as the sun began to set...

With the gorgeous weather what better time to celebrate the beauty of our coast. Being not as familiar with the coastline at the south of the county I loved the clean blue and white of the marinas and the adventure of fossil hunting with all those layers of natural colour.

What I also loved was also all those candy colours, ice cream parlours and buckets and spades...

Ever since I read The French Lieutenants Woman last year I have wanted to visit Lyme Regis. Looking for fossils set in the stone of The Cobb kept Mr PD happy too as I lost myself in a daydream of looking out to sea for my French sailor!

Then of course it was time for THAT big day! We spent the weekend down in Cornwall through necessity but I still enjoyed the brass band, tea and wedding cake whilst watching on a big screen in Aylmer Square in St Austell. Then of course back to our campsite for Prosecco and strawberries...

Last April we were in Paris and had hoped to go back to France this Easter too, but I have to say that I have rather enjoyed my time noticing the things that are lovely about being in my country this April...