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. 'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.' (Daphne du Maurier, d 19th April, 1989) . . Discuss. . . Sitting with my daughter in the garden. We're about to have supper. Cheese from the Farm Shop up the lane, half decent wine from the wee corner shop in the village. . . Chatting about this and that, love and life, hopes and dreams. She's far more savvy than me. 🤦♀️ . . So is love a novel, or a short story? Or in my case a cartoon strip... 🙄 . . . . . Thank you very much for the most wonderful words yesterday, so touched by your kindness, Good Friday Flowers for you from the wonderful @cultivatedbychristin 💮⭐🥂💜❣️📸. 'With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.' (William Shakespeare) . . Celebrating another trip around the sun. 🚀🌞 I'm alive! And instead of once dreading this annual event, I'm now just thrilled to be here. 💃 . . Don't be grumpy about your birthday! Enjoy the ride, make each of those 365 days count. Life is an amazing adventure! . . Had a wonderful day here at Posh Towers, a walk through the bluebells (see stories) and a visit from the lobster fisherman..💗🥰🍾🦀🦀 (He gave me lobster, not crabs! 🤦♀️) . . Very much looking forward to the next twelve months... Exciting changes afoot, thank you lovely Igers for your fabulous support - what a year that was, your encouragement, wonderful humour and kind words will never be forgotten. You're all amazing xxx lots of love from me, wrinkles and all... 😘😘💗 . . . . . . Super fenestration for the nation from @simonrayner .... A little bit of light pushes away a lot of darkness... ⚡💡🔦📸😍. 'The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.' (Anatole France, b 16 April, 1844) . . War and Peace, The Bible, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Gulliver's Travels, Moby Dick.... . . Guilty as charged! What can you add to the pile of books on your beside table that seemed such a good idea at the time... 🤦♀️ . . . . . . . Wonderful, whimsical posies, and piles of books, which I'm sure are well read by @sean_anthony_pritchard 📚📸🌸💗✍️🤔😘. 'Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things.' (Laurie Lee, Cider with Rosie) . . Diamond dust morning in Dorset from the wonderful @jasperconran xx. 'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' (Samuel Beckett, b 13th April, 1906) . . The image shows an exhibition of Loewe basketry, hand quilting and calligraphy to coincide with @isaloniofficial . . I was thrilled to receive a very kind invitation from @loewe to participate in a private ikebana class in Milan this week led by Japanese master @watara_ikebana . . Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arrangement, literally meaning 'making flowers alive'. A centuries old tradition, the Buddhist desire to preserve life is the key. This is a fascinating subject, where shape, colour, form, and the vessel itself play a vital part. Well worth investigating! . . I was unable to attend the workshop because it coincided with a VIP meeting of much excite and promise 🤞all will be revealed soonish. . . But my point here is not about blowing the Posh Trumpet 🎺 it's about Samuel's Fail Better. This time last year I was three months out of heart surgery to remove a tumour from my chest, I thought it was game over. . . If you've followed along for a while you'll know that was my 14th major surgery in five years. Sam sums it up so well: . . 'You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.' . . It's ok, you can do it, you can go on, try again, mini steps forward, every day. 💪 . . @jonathan.anderson x. 'I love tulips better than any other Spring flower, they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace...' (Elizabeth Von Armin, Elizabeth and Her German Garden) . . I love tulips too, so imagine my 😲😠😱 last week to find my lovingly nurtured bulbs, in pots next to the front door, beheaded, petals scattered like 🎊 !! . . Three little boys are the culprits. Not quite as tall as the wee standard olive trees in said same pots. I'm fairly certain, as these were the three I caught red-handed drawing a giant 🍆 on the lane outside the McCottage. 🤨 . . I tackled them, using my finest Ms Trunchbull 😤 .... to which they gave me ✌️ laughed, and ran off. . . Not sure of plan of action - suggestions welcome! 🤦♀️ . . . . . So Fabulously Alert, Intact Friday Flowers for you from my Friend @clausdalby ❣️ Film taken by @karolinalansmansgarden. 'The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers...' (Marshall McLuhan) . . 9th April is National Name Yourself Day. . . What would you do, stick or twist? Do you like your name? What would you change it to... . . I'm shortly launching a new project, where I'll probably be needing a pseudonym. . Any suggestions welcome. . Suitably Posh obvs, like Charles or Camilla, HRHs celebrating their wedding anniversary today, possibly at Highgrove.. . . 14 years. That's a double itch. . . . . . . . Thank you for this wonderful image of Highgrove in Spring @highgrovegarden 🌷🌺🌹🌼📸💂♂️🌟💘. 'The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day When the sun is out and the wind is still, You’re one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, A wind comes off a frozen peak, And you’re two months back in the middle of March.' (Robert Frost, 'Two Tramps in Mud Time') . . Just about sums up today. It was May when I took the plunge, my second swim of the year so far, sky and sea competing for the best blue, but March when I got out, with a bitter breeze and gun metal clouds. . . A crowd was assembled on the beach, a large family, with lots of red haired children. I thought they were just engrossed watching a mad woman thrashing about in the freezing water. . . A lady approached me and asked me to take a group photo. I agreed, shivering, towel wrapped round me, and said 'Cheese' and 'Sausages!' . . Nobody smiled. They'd been scattering Grandad's ashes in the Bay. 😬 . . How's your Saturday going?!. 'Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.' (Stephen Hawking) . . This week celebrates International Dark Sky Parks, where an area has exceptional quality of starry nights and a nocturnal environment protected for its scientific, natural, educational, cultural heritage and public enjoyment. . . The McCottage sits on the edge of Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park, and early this evening it should be possible to see Hyades cosying up to Mars. . . Hyades were the five daughters of Atlas, and following the death of their brother Hyas, the weeping sisters were turned into a cluster of stars, in Ancient Greek Hyades means rainmakers or the rainy ones. . . In Britain the cluster is known as the April Rainers. . So I will venture out this evening to wonder about the universe, but might be hampered by the April rain from seeing the April Rainers. 🤔 . . Be curious, go outside. Try to make sense of what you see. If not stars, then plants or trees or flowers, like this beautiful arrangement from flower fairy @blossomanddill . . Fabulous Friday Flowers for you my lovely Iger friends, look at the stars and not the dark.. XXX 🌟✨. 'All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother.' (Abraham Lincoln) . . It's Mothering Sunday here in the UK. 🐣 To all of you who have a wonderful bond with your mum, and a fabulous relationship with your children, I wish you a happy day full of love and joy! 💗 🐣 But this post is really for those who don't tick these boxes, and for whom Mothering Sunday can be stressful, sad and difficult. For those who feel hurt, inadequate, lonely, angry, and who have fallen out with family and dread days like this, I'd just like to say please don't be hard on yourself. You are good enough. 🐣 Buy yourself flowers today, get baking, plant some bulbs, light a lovely candle, put on some 💃 music, write a page in your journal. 🐣 Forgive, accept, move on. 🐣 . . . . . A big thank you to everyone who left comments re their favourite scents on a previous post, I'm making notes! 💐 XXX . . #BestFootForward for the week ahead and don't forget to make room for the magic! ✨ . . . . Thank you @myleslea your gallery is the bee's knees ❣️💛💗🥰💐📸 wonderful Haddon Hall, roses and beauty for everyone today xxxxxxxxx 💋. 'The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and waterlilies grew at the deep end.' (Anna Sewell, b 30th March, 1820) . . The perfect library to sit and immerse yourself in Sewell's Black Beauty, one of the top ten best selling novels for children ever written. . . Anna wrote it, not for children, but for those working with horses 'to induce kindness and sympathy'. It was published when she was 57 years old. She received a one off payment of £40, and sadly died five months later. It went on to sell 50 million copies... . . I think I read Black Beauty when I was about 10... can you remember reading it as a child? . . . . . . Fabulous New York apartment from @36craven 💛📸📚❣️. 'I glanced out of the window at the signs of Spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.' (Millard Kaufman) . . Have a wonderful day today, whatever you're almost doing... . . Fabulous Friday flowers for you from the wonderful gallery of @vlinderlin #🌷 I'm off to Kirkcudbright for an adventure xxx 👀🦄. 'I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.' (Confucius) . . Fabulous Parisian home of Marie France Cohen in the ooh la la 7th arrondissement. . Love the Napoleon III wet nurse chair perfectly positioned next to those wonderful windows, can almost feel the fragrant Spring breeze gently wafting through.. . . Marie France's must-haves when it comes to decorating? Lighting, beautiful rugs, paintings, photos and a piano. She is obsessed with scents. Her favourite smell is toasted bread... . . Do you have a favourite scent...? I have a Posh Project coming up and would love to hear your suggestions ... . . And on that note, I'm off for breakfast! 🍞🍯☕ Have a super day ahead. . . Remember, there's a very large world out there - go and explore! 😘🌺🦄🕊️ xx . . . . Thank you so much @tmagazine 📸🌺💋🕊️🌿. 'All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.' (William Morris, b 24th March, 1834) . . I think I've found the chandelier for the McCottage! ... Now, if I could just do something about the ceiling height, beams and dodgy electrics... 🤔 . . What do you think makes a room look lived in....? Books ✅ Fresh flowers ✅ Welcoming fire ✅ . . Boxes ticked so far in this fabulous room @porteliotestate via @townandcountryuk 📸📚💐🔥😘💗. 'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.' (William Morris, b 24th March, 1834) . . Kelmscott Manor, the Cotswold retreat of William Morris, who, when he first saw the house in 1871, was delighted by the 'loveliest haunt of ancient peace.' . . I hope you have nothing in your house that isn't useful or beautiful?! 🤔 . Love Morris's prescience, 'Sparking Joy', before Marie Kondo was even a twinkle in her mother's eye... . . According to Kondo, the best way to find out what we truly need is to get rid of what we don't. When you get rid of that which doesn't serve you, you make room for the magic that will.... . . Time to make room? . I'm off to the local Household Waste Recycling Centre (what happened to 'tip'? 🙄) where I usually come back with more than I take... (I've made friends with Stig, who works there, who saves me the most amazing treasure, antique bench, Rococo mirror, bamboo hall stand, turned down the antique zebra rug...) . . Mantra for the week ahead: Make Room For The Magic! #🧙♀️ . . . . . . Thank you so much @gbcrorkindavis for the wonderful image 📸🌸🌺💚🌿. 'The most important decision you will make is to be in a good mood.' (Voltaire) . . International Day of Happiness, the Spring Equinox and a Super Worm Moon, and flowers from Gateau Goddess @cakeatelieramsterdam - that should be enough to put anyone in a good mood! . . Been thinking about happiness a lot today, one definition I read struck a chord - 'Happiness is the joy we feel when we're striving after our potential.' . What do you think? What makes you happy? Striving after your potential, or a wander round the garden with a cup of tea? . . Do more of what makes you happy! Hope you're all smiling! 😊 xx. 'I rise today through The power of Heaven, The light of the sun, The brightness of the moon, The splendour of fire, The flashing of lightning, The swiftness of wind, The depth of sea, The stability of earth, The compactness of rocks.' . . St Patrick's Breastplate, an 8th century prayer attributed to St Patrick, and words I sent to my father Patrick before he was admitted to hospital for surgery three weeks ago. . . Today he has cooked chops for his supper, had an amble round his village, phoned me for a crossword clue, and tells me he's booking a cruise. . . Thank you to everyone sending prayers and good wishes @theroyalfamily ! He was thrilled when I showed him all your messages. . . Mantra for the week ahead: . May you rise through the light of the sun, and the brightness of the moon. . . Sláinte! 🍻 . . #☘️ #stpatricksday #guinnessisgoodforyou #The DeersCry. 'The heart was made to be broken.' (Oscar Wilde) . . Heartbreak seems like a very lonely place, but almost everyone goes through it, and that, apparently is the key, to go through it, and not round it, there are no shortcuts. . It's ok to feel sad, crying relieves stress, but try to create a new world for yourself, write a journal, list your strengths, run, swim, walk, cook yourself lovely food, build up your self esteem, get busy. Only you can make you happy. Make your own sunshine. . I'm supporting a friend who's really going through it, any advice for her most welcome... Apart from cutting the sleeves from his best suits that is... 😲 . . . . . . . #💔 from the lovely home of @franckschmitt.fr ✂️💚🌳📸. 'The tulips make me want to paint, Something about the way they drop Their petals on the tabletop And do not wilt so much as faint...' ('Tulips', by A. E. Stallings) . . Good Morning! How are you doing? . Dreich, dank and dreary here, horizontal rain thwarting plans to tootle off to Kirkcudbright for an amble and mooch around the market. So instead, I shall light a fire, get my paints out 🎨, and have a go at the little pot of tulips I bought yesterday... before they faint. . . I know there's no such thing as bad weather, just unsuitable clothing, and as Longfellow quipped - 'into each life some rain must fall..' - but today I'm wimping out, enough rain has fallen this winter to last my lifetime. (Apologies for weather whinge, especially if you're desperate for some precipitation! 🤦♀️) xxx. 'Three snails and a head of cabbage, but I must not forget my spade, for it is due to my spade that I am the recipient of all the kindness with which your Majesty honours me.' . . André Le Nôtre, (b March 12th, 1613), Royal Gardener to Louis XIV, in response to what he wanted on his coat of arms. 🐌🐌🐌 . . Le Nôtre set the precedent for the French formal garden style - 'Jardin à la français', and influenced the design of many gardens and parks, not just in France, but across Europe, Versailles being his masterpiece. . . I've just watched 'A Little Chaos', a portrayal of Le Nôtre's life starring Alan Rickman and Kate Winslet. 🎥🍿 one critic called it a load of old compost, but I quite enjoyed it. . #Imeasilypleased . . . . . . . . . Les Jardins de Marqueyssac 📸❣️💚❣️💚 @eauthelabel
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