Dad has arrived!

Just looking back and it's over 3 weeks since my last post!! So much for thinking I was going to do this regularly!  
15th October was D day (Dad day) and he's now in my house with me.  Here he is on his exercise bike in the shed (excuse the mess)  -   88 and still keeping fit!!!
We had a bit of a family party to welcome him - catering by St Michael - I wasn't organised enough to cook properly.  All 10 of us squeezed around the table.  I'm in the market for more chairs and just before he arrived I found a lovely bentwood chair at a vintage fair at Bardsea.


  
Isn't the pattern on the seat fabulous?  It reminds me of the long gone Italian Ice cream parlour I used to go to with Mum when I was little....... 
Not keen on matching sets of chairs 

And at the same vintage fair I also couldn't resist this refurbished sewing box.  The interior is original and beautiful.  At the moment it seems to be full of dolls (thank-you grandchild number 2)   but soon I'll get organised and put my quilting in it.

Hoping I can get to the next Bardsea Fair in November -  need more chairs.........

Last Roses of Summer

As this Sunday is a grey and miserable day I was doing some indoor things and one of them was downloading photos.   I remembered I'd taken some pics in the garden exactly a week ago when the sun was shining.  I'm wondering now if that was the Indian Summer we hope for, or whether we'll get a second shot at it.....
Anyway, just to cheer me up here are some flowers that are still giving pleasure 

One single bloom of Graham Thomas - I love the way a lot of roses have a proper name, feels like you can get to know them, Graham is very robust.....

Madame Alfred Carriere, a blowsy  French Lady, keeps coming back just when you think she's finished






and here's Jude the Obscure in front of a hydrangea that's now in it's third garden - the previous 2 owners didn't like it! Their loss I think!!  
Jude has been a late starter this year but worth the wait as I always think he smells of Chardonnay!

Lastly  one of my triumphs - a dahlia the slugs didn't get!!!!!

Breaking news! Just caught a shaft of sunlight coming in the window - perhaps it's brightening up