Peony

June 12, 2013June 12, 2013 ~ Bungalow Blogger ~ 6 Comments

Joining in with Lou at Little Green Shed Nature in the Home week 15. Happy 1000th post to Lou and her fabulous blog, I look forward to reading the next 1000 posts.

We were asked to give you our favourite plant. The colour and textures of Peony Roses, as I know them, are amazingly beautiful from that tight little ball when they are first noticeable on the plant until they puff and finally dissolve. This one is from the garden just now and is really on its way out. This is my favourite flower from the garden at the moment, there are others up there on my list at different times of the year.

The works – remember them? Well, the bedroom carpets are due tomorrow and the painter is lined up to do the last few bits soon. I may even have some properly habitable rooms very soon. Then comes putting the place back together. as my Mum used to say, ‘There’s always something.’

Day Seventy-Seven

June 7, 2013 ~ Bungalow Blogger ~ 2 Comments

The person doing the regeneration today was me, only me. At last my ‘bedroom to be’ is all white. It has taken an age and has meant overcoming severe inertia but I’ve done it. It is not actually FINISHED, oh no, but all it needs is a final coat tomorrow and it will be done.

The carpet people have said that the carpet should be making its way to Edinburgh next week, I’m not holding my breath on that though, at least all the bedrooms will be ready when it arrives and we can actually get into the new bedroom. It feels like I made up that we would ever sleep up there! We have a wardrobe dilemma at the moment too, built-in? Ikea pax? freestanding expensive but wait and use old one? We keep going round in circles. Ideally we would have doors the same as the shutters but that does not seem possible without getting them made by a specialist company – really must get a price on that. Whatever we choose will go in the space you can see on the far left below.

Time to wish you all a good weekend again, I’m hoping the sun keeps on shining and that the painting will be done by a fairy overnight. Which is more likely I wonder? x

Day Seventy-Five (sort of)

May 27, 2013May 27, 2013 ~ Bungalow Blogger ~ 2 Comments

The blog is back, we have had a very sickly household since last Monday, everyone apart from the hardy F has been bed bound for at least a day, if not two, with a really nasty bug. Horrible, I felt like my body was stuck to the bed on Saturday and I missed the best day of the year into the bargain. I am feeling loads better since about 10am this morning, in case you’re wondering. Even C was stuck to his bed on Thursday, that is most unusual.

Onwards now, the regeneration has really, really slowed down at the moment and it is becoming frustrating trying to get the last wee bits done. The carpets are not in yet – should be soon. I have finished painting the pegs for the upstairs bathroom and the velux blinds are here and keeping the bedrooms dark. It gets dark at about 10pm at the moment and gets light about 3am (noticed when I was up in the night on Friday night/sat morn, enough said). It is hard for the kids to get to sleep so the blackouts are brilliant. F has a red one but I got a bit carried away taking pics of the clouds so you cannot actually see the colour of the blind. H’s is the most sunny yellow, it’s very jolly.