Colour ~ Me ~ Happy

Hello again my Lovelies, I'm here Twice in one month!...go me! hehe.

The months to me seem to be whizzing by...Maybe thats because I cope better keeping busy at the moment.

We have ventured a little further from our comfort zones this week...Not too far and only an hour in the car but to new meadows and creeks and non~ peopley places... for some New scenery, New Country views...

I think we've over walked our local canal and footpaths that we needed a change of scene...

I'm sooo glad we did...I packed us all a picnic and drinks and we found a beautiful spot...Actually, its a rather secret spot as we hardly see anyone here...The footpath sign is quite overgrown which helps so that might be why, but we know where it is and its like a secret garden adventure...Wonderful wild flowers, tall grasses...buttercups...Rolling Devon hills for miles and miles around.

Beautiful speckled Yellow moth

Sometimes I stand and just feel in ore at this time of year...Like I have never seen a May like it before.

Sometimes the British Winters seem like they last forever and especially when its been a wet miserable one you just so long for blue skies and beautiful meadows filled with wild flowers and wildlife...Its just such a joy!

I feel after a good walk and some time with Mother Nature I'm feeling so much better in myself.

I've been brave and planted out the Tomatoes in my Garden in the recycled Moses basket filled with earth.

It has been rather hot this week so I've been finding shady spots under the Apple tree with a good book or sketchbook...

Also this week I fancied painting some furniture, I mixed some pots of paint together i'd already got as we haven't managed to get to bigger D.I.Y stores since the Covid-19 outbreak.

I went Pink!!!! and the dresser has had a New lease of life...I think it really brightens up the kitchen space.

And a Lovely place to sit with a nice cup of tea...

I'm enjoying Gardeners World while I type this...

H a p p y    F r i d a y, Enjoy your week end...

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P.s  My view on picking wild flowers is a little saying my Nanny told me...

'Never a bag full, Only a handful'... I really believe this too.

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Country Devon Days...Social distancing...

How are we all coping?...Still quite a surreal situation, but getting used to this new routine...

The weather has helped me immensely it is so very beautiful here in Devon...Blue skies and glorious Sunshine...Also My partner who has been a 'key worker' through out this Covid-19 outbreak and working full time and long evening shifts too had a weeks holiday ((A well earned rest!))...It was wonderful to have him home and safely with us...We made the most of Country walks, mainly local to us...

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Its been wonderful finding New hidden away places to explore and less 'peopley' places for Social distancing. It shocks me how many people just flock to the park when there is so many other walks on our doorstep. I've avoided the parks all together here. Obviously ,I totally understand if you are in a city and the park is the only green space you have...but here there's many other places than crowding in the park.

I adore this part of our walk down by the river tamar...There is a wonderful old railway carriage made into a holiday cottage...not so much used by the looks of things these days...I'd love one as an art studio! All those windows to an artist would be bliss!... Always reminds me of Elspeth Thompson a British author and journalist...She wrote a gardening section for The guardian Newspaper too...How I first knew of her was many years ago while first blogging when my daughter was a young toddler, she wrote a blog too...sadly she passed away...But she was in the process of making a beautiful home and garden out of an old railway carriage home...I often think of her blog...It was a great comfort to me when I was living on my own.

'The Honesty box'...Sweet Williams...Along the Tamar River.

wild flowers from the local meadows...

I think how lucky I am most days to have a garden...I lived a long time in a ground floor flat with just a tiny courtyard with a wall to look at...So I'm so lucky the last four years to have a hill top garden...and to live in a Country Market town with Dartmoor as my neighbour...Its been like a sanctuary when days have felt awfully worrying and stressy...its relaxed my anxious mind and soothed my soul...Ive watched the blackbirds and robins nesting and return of the swifts and swallows swooping around the Hill top.

Home schooling has been rather more relaxed these last two weeks...Ive felt she needed a break.

We've been more creative and exercising with plenty of walking and looking at nature...

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May days and lots of Cow parsley froffing over into the lanes ...My favourite time of year!

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Thankful for the glorious blue Devon skies...

One day while gardening I was tackling the overgrown ivy on the old walled garden part of our hill top garden and found the most amazing nest...Made with moss and twigs but also the blackbirds had recycled some of my recycling by adding old pieces of lace and trims and some ribbon and old paper art into the woven nest...It made me want to write a story all about it, But i added a fairy character too...

Dartmoor wild ponies...

An illustration of a foxy with the foxgloves...

The Foxgloves are all starting to bloom down here in Devon...I adore seeing them growing out of the country lanes and wild meadows...And all the wild daisies too!...Such a wonderful Month May is.

One truly wonderful walk we found a Mole on the field foot path near the river...

Sadly passed...But so beautiful to look at...After asking my father who worked many years with the wildlife trust explained that moles do have a short life and he remembered finding quite a few on the nature reserves.

Their black velvety fur and hands almost like human hands...Just so beautiful. My daughter was fascinated.

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Mental health: My gardens helping me immensely...

On the other days this month I've been walking and gardening...I've planted so many seedling over the last months and my mixed salad and cosmos have over taken everything else...My tomatoes seedlings I planted later this year and are inside on the Sunny window sill to bring them out a bit more...
We've enjoyed a lot of chicken ceaser salads...

Take care of yourselves until next time,

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Easter in isolation....

Hello out there in the land of 'odd' and 'Surreal'...Hope you are all keeping well and coping?...

Well, since I last blogged the Covid-19 alert has completely turned daily life into quite a 'surreal' situation.

getting to grips with New rules on 'Self isolation, social distancing'...The first week I felt completely 'Lost', anxious and teary. But the last week I've slowly got used to this New routine.

The way to get myself through I have focused heavily on Simple pleasures, Spring joys and being with my loved ones...I've learnt to switch the News headlines off and keep myself motivated on the things that make me happy...'Simple, Happy Joys'...Spring has Sprung and with that has made my daily life at the moment so much easier to bare....

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Keeping to the social distancing rules we've managed to find some secret and less 'peopley' places to walk around on the outskirts of our little market town. We also have a Hill top garden and more so now than ever I so appreciate this space of ours...I've been planting lots of seedlings...

Sophia has been doing home schooling and the school send lots of Homework through on line and we seem to be finding this quite a gentle and easy process at the moment...Sophia is so much more organised than I ever was at School...I'm actually really proud of how she's coping with it all. As i'm sure at times this must all be quite 'surreal' and 'odd' not being able to meet up with friends...At least they do have social media.

So, I've tried to make Easter as Normal as 'Normal' can be right now...and we've had lots of phone calls with relations we usually spend time with over the Easter period..lovely to hear their voices, their laughter.

Its been hard with my dad isolated on his own...but I phone him every day, so glad I spent quality time down there with him just before the outbreak.

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Decorating the Home for Easter and Spring Cleaning has helped me keep positive and busy..

beauty in the bluebells...primroses, wild garlic flowers...All the jewels of Spring in the U.K.

seeing the first Apple blossoms...Such a lovely sight in the garden.

Wonderful being out in the woodlands and down by the river bank

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keeping my mind busy with fairytale, garden inspired drawings...

My teeny tiny creative space...where the fairies keep me company below the attic beams...

I love these words...

Easter display...

My Country Living Magazine, escapism from this mad world...and a delicious hot cross bun helps too! yum!!

picking a posy from the garden...

Finding hidden gems...Love that we've been able to explore meadow lands and secret paths mainly over grown and unused...wild and free.

I love the smell of wild garlic in the woodlands in Spring time...

My shadow looking onto the meadow from the secret overgrown woodland path...

I pass this beautiful house often...

beautiful cottages, magnolia trees, cherry blossoms and bluebells...Love being down by the river bank.

Bunny slippers!...well, it is Easter after all.

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Beautiful Sky over our little market town on Easter Sunday...

Another really positive thing about this situation is hearing lovely stories on the radio about 'people coming together' helping the elderly and vulnerable with shopping, and in true british spirit of people 'clapping' at certain times in the evening with neighbours in their streets for the Amazing, heroic, life saving, hard working NHS staff and all the key workers keeping the u.k going...I was out there on my hilly road banging a saucepan (making as much noise as possible!) and stevie and sophs were clapping their hands...All together saying 'Thank you'...It made me really emotional...I do love it when people show kindness and care. The sound of hands clapping and cheers in the distance echoed around our little Market town, so moving.

Take care of yourselves...and keep well,

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