April Scavenger Hunt

Thanks once again to Greenthumb, Made With Love, for this month's Scavenger Hunt list. Pop along to her blog for the linky to view all the other entrants.

Here are mine:

1) Pink

A little girl's glove lying on the grass at the bottom of the hill.

2) Six

a set of 6 tulip wine glasses, which I've had since 1968

3) Your city/town

This is where I live, Warminster, on the edge of Salisbury Plain (the white area to the top and right of the map).

4) Sport

We are armchair sport watchers

5) Night light

My studio entrance after dark

6) Something you collect

books, fabric, yarn, momentos, postcards, beer mats, you name it

7) Big

The hill I have to climb to get home from the park

8) Dinner

Cassie's, not ours.

9) Texture

Dining room curtain and tie-back

10) Curl

Morning Glory curling around the support canes

11) Take off

Gave GM a haircut

12) Plastic

One of our garden chairs, after a shower.

Just a quick look in my garden

Here are some of the things that are happening in my garden this week.

Daisy Row plus 365

Today is the first anniversary of our move to our lovely new home. It's hard to believe we've been here for a whole year already, but having said that, it's been a busy year and we've got quite a few things done.

We're going to have an easy day, out for a picnic lunch and steakwiches a l'Homme Vert for tea.

By the way, I'll let you into a little secret about how I came about the name for my blog. Last year, before the move I was counting down the days for the last fortnight or so, day 14, day 13, etc. etc. so that the last day before we moved was day 1. When we finally arrived at our new house, GM said to me "Welcome to Day Zero", to which I replied "Thankyou, that's a great new name for my blog".

Dare we hope . . .

. . . that spring is finally here?

Proper gardening

At long last it was warm enough and dry enough to get out and finish off my temporary raised beds. Another couple of days sunshine and I'm hoping to get out again and plant some stuff.

Indoor gardening

Might as well, its far too wet to garden outside!

Seeds

Hanging baskets planted up . . .

with some of these . . .

and some of these . 

Waiting to go outside, if it ever stops raining and starts warming up

Top Sweetpeas, centre Morning Glory, bottom leeks (oooh! no pun intended there)

Hoping for some sunshine

Remember the seed disks (here)? This is what they look like now.

Oh come on spring, haven't we waited, patiently, long enough?

New Dining Room

This morning GM fixed the picture hooks on the wall, so we hung our pictures and the room is now complete. We are delighted with it.

We don't have a lot of pictures, just two originals and a limited edition print.

The first is by Lian Lilley Earley and is of Wisteria at Iford Manor. Lian is Warminster born but now lives in Devon, with her husband Mark, who has the somewhat flowery title of The Bard of Bath.

The second was painted by a neighbour of ours when we lived in Surrey, and is of a pub we used to frequent, the artist is Janet White.

Apologies for the odd angle, its the only one I could take without massive reflections on the glass.

The third is a limited edition print that we bought on our first visit to Bath in 2005

Now here are views of the room, one from each corner

As there are currently only three of us in residence, the table looks a bit overkill, but I look forward to many happy days when we have family and/or friends gathering and a table full of guests.

10 on 10, April 2013

6am, just awake, and still a bit bleary-eyed

7am, in the kitchen, soon after breakfast

8am, in my studio, loading photos on to Facebook

9am, in the kitchen again

10am, in the conservatory, watering my seedlings

 11am, on the road between Bradford-on-Avon and Bath heading for Bristol

12 noon, in The Anchor, Gloucester Road, Bristol

1pm just finished eating a magnificent lunch

2pm, heading back towards Bath having just left the M4

3pm, back home in Warminster

Linking up with 10 on 10 at a bit of sunshine