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. 'You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.' (Oscar de la Renta, b 22nd July, 1932) . . Each morning on waking, I open my eyes, creak out of bed, swish the curtains, look across to the bay and hills, and say 'I'm alive!' A little like Scrooge on Christmas Day... . . I've only been doing this since I almost wasn't alive. This might be something you don't get unless you've been to the Dark Side. You might be thinking - Posh has lost the Plot. You might be right. . Maybe I have, maybe it takes a catastrophe to focus the mind, to make us appreciate every single day... Please don't let it take a catastrophe, please find time to plant those seeds... xxx . . I'm off to October Club for morning coffee. The BEST way to start the week. Not revolutionaries, but almost. We tittle tattle and put the world straight. And laugh. A lot. . Here's to a week of seed planting and laughter! Best foot forward everyone! xx . . . . Fabulous flowers from @sarahgardnerphotography 🌸💮🌺💘😘. 'Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.' (Ernest Hemingway, b July 21st, 1899) . . Don't look so worried little hen house 😲 - or is it more shocked than worried? . . Worry training going well here at Posh Towers. I've convinced myself that 90% of what we worry about never actually happens. . . So far so good. . . Also persevering with the Today Will Be A Good Day mantra, we decided we were going to do this three weeks ago, time whizzed by... how's it going? Seems to be working at the McCottage, that might be because my son is still here and we're having a blast... already starting to worry about him leaving on Thursday, but as I said 90% of what we worry about, etc etc, there's a pattern emerging here! 🤪🙄 . . So, mantra for the week ahead. If you don't want to lose a couple of years to worry: . . Hate something - change something! Don't let worry steal your joy. . . Best foot forward for the week ahead oh lovely ones. And don't forget to make room for the magic! xxxx 😘😘😘. 'Choose only one master - Nature' (Rembrandt b 15th July, 1606) . . Scottish GPs to begin prescribing rambling and birdwatching... so says a recent headline in The Grauniad. Doctors are now handing out 'nature prescriptions'. . . Spend some time this week connecting with nature. Forest bathe, wild swim, bird watch. . . Feed your soul. I posted a wee film on my stories last night. Late evening swimming under a nearly full moon. Soothing and recharging... (my broomstick - it's very auspicious apparently (?)). Get thee to the beach, lake, river, and at least have a paddle! 💦 . . Welcome to lots of new followers, lovely to meet you, I'll introduce myself properly later, was so distracted yesterday by tennis and cricket and champagne super overs.... . . Have a super week everyone! 😘😘😘 . . . . Many thanks @inagarten 😘 who couldn't fail to be lifted by this gorgeous image? You may have already seen it via @debbytenquist two lovely ladies to follow XXX 💜💜💜. 'It is the time you spent on your rose that makes her so important...' (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) . . A quiet day spent on the beach, with sandy sandwiches and crosswords and crab from the fisherman on the quay. . . We're off to watch the #SkiffieWorlds2019 further down the coast tomorrow.. 👀 which reminds me of the entry in Who's Who, of a famous English playwright, who lists his hobby as 'rowing'. . . This doesn't involve 🚣🚣♀️🚣♂️ however.... Alan is partial to a good old ding ding dust up... 🥊🥊 rowing, not rowing... ! . . Roses here in their element, the scent just exquisite, the reward for time spent..... 'We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.' (Francis Bacon) . . So how goes it so far for those joining in the Posh experiment? . . Just to remind you, on waking, we're not going to WAIT to see what kind of day we are going to have, we are going to DECIDE what kind of day we're going to have... (see previous post) . . 'Today will be a good day', and so far so good here at the McCottage. Either the poshitive affirmations are working, or coincidentally, life is good. . . I hope life is good for you too, are you still continuing with the journal writing, staying present, being happy on purpose? I'd love to know how you're getting on... . . I've been off radar a little, my son is here with me for a whole month, I'm thrilled and knackered at the same time, all this cooking malarkey.. 😬! . . So, mantra for the week ahead lovely Iger Warriors: . . You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step... . . #Ministepsforwardeveryday . #MakeRoomForTheMAGIC . . . . . . Fabulous winding staircase of small steps via @elledecor 🌟🧙♀️❣️😘💗. 'If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can't just wait to see what kind of day you'll have. You have to DECIDE what kind of day you'll have.' (William James) . . Wish I'd read this this morning. Been rather a meh old day, down to me, dithering, wavering and generally shilly-shallying.... 🤔 . . I will write this in my journal straight away, and make a note for the month of July to DECIDE what kind of day I'm going to have. . . Why don't you join me? A wee Posh experiment... 📝📝📝 . . Mantra for the week ahead: . . 'A person is where his thoughts are'. . . So start the day with a POSITIVE affirmation - for example - 'Today Will Be A Good Day', say it out loud, and mean it... 💪 . Focus on the present. What in this exact moment is happening that's so bad? Negativity stems from memories of recent events, or the exaggerated imagining of a future event. Stay. In. The. Present. Moment. . . In the meantime I shall distract myself (more dithering 🙄) with this loveliness from @burfordgarden ...hands up who loves Hidcote sentinels...? 💜💜💜 🙋. 'And in the warm hedge grew lush eglantine, Green cowbind and the moonlight-coloured may, And cherry-blossoms, and white cups, whose wine Was the bright dew, yet drained not by the day; And wild roses, and ivy serpentine, With its dark buds and leaves, wandering astray... (Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Question) . . A heady, heavy day here on the peninsula. Cracks of thunder overhead and dramatic lightning curtailing my wandering. The lanes thick with honeysuckle scent and dog rose perfume, hedgerows bejewelled with clusters of blooms and strings of pearly petals. . And then rain. Heavy hard spoiling showers stinging skin and bruising blossoms. Dash back for tea and cake, staring out at drama and garden under assault... 🤕 . . Speaking of scent and perfume... THANK YOU! THANK YOU! For the wonderful feedback from all those who have bought and received POSH CANDLES. I am so happy (and relieved!) you're thrilled, and that so many people around the world are #MakingRoomForTheMagic ! . . Please go to PoshPedlarShop.com to leave a review and to purchase your 'Stop and Smell The Roses' candle. *Link in bio ⬆️ or click on image. . Don't forget, each one comes with a personal message of Poshitivity, just for you xxx Now off to inspect the damage.... 🌸💮🌺. 'It amazes me that most people spend more time planning next summer's vacation than they do planning the rest of their lives.' (Patricia Fripp) . . This is what the McCottage wants to look like when it grows up. I'd never need to go on vacation again if it did.. 👙💦 . How is everybody? I've been hither and thither, attending courses, yet more hospital appointments, (Czech Doc this time, nearly got the full United Nations Clinician Bingo!), and frisky bees, unsettled by thundery weather and ⚡⚡⚡. . . Looking forward to catching up, and answering your lovely messages, forgive my tardiness! XXX . . . Don't call it a dream, call it a plan! . #MakeRoomForTheMAGIC . . . Thank you so much @dangordonla fabulous conversion! ❣️🏠💦💃🏼✨. 'Strawberries that in gardens grow Are plump and juicy fine, But sweeter far as wise men know Spring from the woodland vine. . No need for bowl or silver spoon, Sugar or spice or cream, Has the wild berry plucked in June Beside the trickling stream.' (Robert Graves - Wild Strawberries) . . Graves proclaimed - 'I write poems for poets, and satires for wits. For people in general I write prose, and am content that they should be unaware that I do anything else. To write poems for other than poets is wasteful.' . I hope this poem isn't wasted on any non-poets out there..🙄 . . I'm wondering about strawberries and 'spice'.. any suggestions? I think pepper rings a bell... If you see Scottish strawberries in the shops, snap them up. Peak Scrumptious Season here, just reading that in the 1950's berries were rushed from Blairgowrie (known as Berry Town) to Covent Garden in London, on a steam train known as the Raspberry Special! . . The longest day tomorrow, sun sets at 10pm here in Galloway. There's enough time in those long light hours to sit and enjoy the eating of a strawberry, scent of rose, sun on face. . Life is about moments. Create them, don't wait for them... XXX (to lovely Igers south of the Equator, Spring & Strawberries aren't far off ...) . . . . . . Sumptuous Strawberries from flower maestro @derletztewolf 🍓❣️🍓❣️🍓📸. "Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'" (Sir James Paul McCartney, b 18th June, 1942) . . Sir Paul, saying it how it is....🧐 . . If I was going to write something, I think it would be Georgian, classical, with very wide borders, somewhere like Bowood perhaps... . . First Beatles song you can remember? 'Till There Was You' 💃 . There were bells on a hill But I never heard them ringing No, I never heard them at all Till there was you. . My mother's favourite, played on crackly loop. . . . . . 📸 by @cathystgermans 💃🎪💘🌺🌼. 'I am a beau in nothing but my books.' (Adam Smith, b 16th June, 1723) . . Adam Smith, Father of Economics, and author of The Wealth of Nations, described as having "had a large nose, bulging eyes, a protruding lip, a nervous twitch and a speech impediment". 😳 . . Few portraits survive of Mr Smith, so we'll just have to take him at his word, and acknowledge that Adonis or not, he would most definitely approve of the beau books in this fabulous library at Bowood House in the Scottish Borders. . . It might be worth a dip into the Wealth of Nations, if you haven't done so already, obvs! . . Smith shows how self interested human beans can live together both peacefully (in the moral sphere), and productively (in the economic).... . . MANTRA for the week ahead, June 21st, Summer Solstice: . . Even the longest day has its end... 💪 . #BestFootForward 🤸♀️🤸🤸♂️ . . . . . . Fabulous 📸 from @savidgereads 📚📚📚💘😍👊Don't you just love peonies? Sad the season is nearly over, but thrilled to announce the arrival of our beautiful Posh Peony Candles, ready to buy now. 🌺 . . I'm delighted to officially declare the Posh Shop OPEN! . . If there's one thing I've learnt during my time on Instagram, it's that POSHITIVITY is a SUPERPOWER. Following a prolonged stay in hospital, I received wonderful encouragement and support from the Instagram Community. All that positive energy became part of the healing process, and it's now time to embrace new opportunities, to 'Live Life in Full Bloom' & 'Make Room For the Magic'. Which just happens to be the names of the first arrivals at www.PoshPedlarShop.com !! ✨🌺✨ . . These Special Edition candles have been created and crafted in Scotland, just up the lane from the McCottage, (by men in kilts 👀), using premium products. Each comes with a PERSONALISED Poshism! . . Click on the shopping basket icon at the bottom of the image. This will take you to the products and all the details you need to know. . . Whilst you're there why not register for future treasure and offers? . Don't worry, I won't bombard you, there'll only be a few exclusive collections throughout the year, one off pieces of jewellery and gorgeous gifts. . . Feedback so far has been excellent, do send pics of your Posh treasure, and I'll share your image on stories. . . I hope you'll take this in good faith and won't judge me. I'm not selling my soul, just a wee selection of treasure from time to time... Thank you xx lots of love xx 💋💋💋 . . . . . . #scentedcandles #Luxuryshopping #housebeautiful #cottagestyle #homefragrance #hygge #candlelight #homeinspiration #peonies #tablescape #interiorstyling #birthdaygift #antiques #roses #candle #giftsforher #stopandsmelltheroses #weekendvibes #scented. 'Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.' (Anne Frank, b 12th June, 1929) . . Apparently, the secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most of every day. . . Today I choose to be happy. . . . . . Although I might be even happier if I was having my morning croissant in this beautiful 'Home in Provence'! 🤦♀️ There's no hope for me! . #BeSatisfiedWithWhatYouHaveGot . . 📸 From the book by #noelleduck and lovely gallery of @hayman__design 🌸💗🌸💗😎🐝🌸. 'When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.' (Saul Bellow, b 10th June, 1915) . . Strive, struggle, strain, seek. Last week, all of the above. . . Monday in a creaking hospital, and a consultant with whom I did not click. Tuesday disaster with the bees, (see stories), Wednesday work worries. Ditto Thursday. Friday a stye, look like Popeye 😳 Pink & Fluffy vacuum. . . This week none of the above. Fribble, footle, dally and chill. . . I hope your week is a fine balance between struggle and succumb, and you're able to enjoy some metaphorical sun bed action! . . When life gives you lemons from @paulafitzherbert and @the_berkeley via the fabulous @bei.bei.wei 📸🍋💛🍋💛🍋💛. 'Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.' (Pablo Neruda) . . June. Means. Peonies. . . This charming film is from @peony_shop_holland - a peony nursery with 45 acres of peonies and 500 varieties. . . We're big fans of Peonies at Posh Towers, so much so, that we used them in the branding of our first treasure at PoshPedlarShop (link in bio 👆) . . I've just bought a huge bunch to photograph with the next items to be listed, but they're tight shut, like conkers, June needs to warm up a bit! 😎 . . Went for a swim this morning in the rain. Nowhere near as exotic as I thought it was going to be.... Nothing like standing shivering on the beach, trying to get dry/dressed in a good old Scottish downpour... 🙄 . . 🥃🥃 Slainte! . . . . (Ps, apologies if you saw this on Sunday, I posted it, and minutes later it had vanished... 🥺). "She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indespensible to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises." (Thomas Hardy, b, 2nd June, 1840) . . Mantra for the week ahead: . Be More Bathsheba! . . 'Can I speak to the manager?' My children used to cringe, (and no, I didn't have the haircut to match! 💁) I don't do it so much any more, now I write the angry letters and put them aside, and do as Abraham Lincoln did - Never Sent. Never Signed. . . Have a wonderful week ahead, here's to the stuff of which great men's mothers are made... what exactly do you think that is? 🤔 . . #BestFootForward . . . . I think Ms Everdene would have LOVED this fabulous tea-party at Chateau de Luce arranged by the marvellous @matthew_oliver_weddings 📸👰🤵💗💃. "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." (J F Kennedy, b 29th May, 1917) . . Sitting on the window seat on the landing watching rain drops slither down the glass. I can hear a kerfuffle in the eaves, a family of swallows settling down for the night. Supper is in the oven, the comforting smell of baking drifting upstairs, candles lit, drawbridge up. It's so good to be back in my wee cottage. . . Whether you're skipping across the lawn of the @villa_balbiano in your fabulous @moniquelhuillier frock, or at home in your pj's living the life you love, bear in mind that the opposite of courage isn't cowardice, but conformity... As Maya Angelou put it so succinctly: 'If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be..." . . Ps is that George Clooney in the @rivaboats ? 🕵️. 'I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.' (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, b 26th May, 1689) . . I think Lady Mary was a better swimmer than most, having, by the age of fourteen, taught herself Latin, written two albums of poetry, a short novel and a prose and verse romance. She also corresponded regularly with the Archbishop of Canterbury. . . Her message here, and mantra for the week ahead: . GO WITH THE FLOW 🐟🐟 . Or maybe we should . BE THE FLOW ? 🐟🐟🤔 . . Learn to work with the flow of life, try not to resist the circumstances you have no control over? Or is that just an excuse for not taking action...? . . #BestFootForward . . . . Straws upon the water 📸 from @stevelannin 🐟✨💘👌#mappertonhouse. I'm thinking about a little project over the Bank Holiday weekend, and love this painted floor and bathroom designed by the lovely @ritakonig ... if only the McCottage had walls and floors that obeyed the rules - 📐 no straight lines - anywhere..!! . . What think you? Step away from the paint...! 🙄 I hope you have a lovely long weekend in store, time to rest and digest, and probs not take on projects you'll regret five minutes after starting... . . . . Ps have you signed up yet? Be the first to know by clicking the link in my bio...☝️😘. 'The biosphere is made up of the parts of Earth where life exists. It extends from the deepest root systems of trees to the dark environment of ocean trenches, to lush rain forests and high mountaintops.' (@natgeo ) . . I snaffled a leaflet in the local Post Office a few weeks ago advertising a course about Adventures in The Biosophere. Up until then I had no idea I lived in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve... 🤷 . . So this sunny morning I rolled up at the whitewashed stable block, aka The Biosphere Office, in the depth of the forest, with my packed lunch and sharpened pencil and sat at a long table with seven other novices. . . One woman wants to introduce bicycle tours, another would like to stage open air theatre productions, the chap next to me is setting up a business foraging on the shore, but I was particularly drawn to the gentleman opposite, Milk Tray Man's double, a gamekeeper who took us through the lush woods, pointing out pine marten tracks, bat boxes, and two red squirrels, chasing each other through the canopy above. I was mesmerised. 💘 . . We have to report back tomorrow morning at 9am. Our homework: to bring in an object from the biosphere that means something to us, heritage/culture/nature/geological.. and chat about it... Forget that. I'm off to do my hair! 💁 . . Ps, thank you for all your kind comments re hospital visit. A charming South African doc and I discussed the power of dreams and diagnosis, will tell all next time... xxx
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