Ah, teal and mustard.

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{images via The City Sage by Anthropologie March 2011 and Elle Decor, February/March 2011}

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I love this combination of colours – it probably comes as no surprise that teal is one of my favourite colours. Last night I went to a Fashion Show*. Bearing in mind I live in a small village near a slightly larger town, I was really going along to support the charity. But, talented girl …

{image credited to Tim Walker via Design Museum flickr stream}

We have this poster from the Design Museum in London on the wall above our bed. It’s a print of a photograph by Tim Walker of Lily Cole and I love it. I adore the colour, a sort of aqua, eggshell blue and I love she looks a little like a peacock (our wedding theme) and that it looks a little Moroccan too (one of our favourite holidays). It’s also fashion-y …

Despite the cold weather and almost constant ice cold rain this week, spring is on it’s way. Lambs are in the fields, snow drops popping up in gardens and in verges. It’s getting lighter in the mornings and the evenings here. And now Valentine’s Day has passed, my thoughts turn to lighter clothes. I might still be wearing gloves and a tweed coat when ever I step outside, but inside, I am buying my new spring wardrobe. I don’t want …

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This time last year I was writing about how we had moved from London to Somerset to live in the countryside. How we had bought our first car and rented a sweet little country cottage. It doesn’t seem that long ago, but a whole 12 months have passed by and spring is on it’s way once again. Coupled with, once again, being on the search for a new car and a new (rented) house. Add to …

Winter in Somerset is beautiful. We are in the South-West of England so we have a more temperate climate than, say, Scotland, or the East coast of England. Palm trees grow down here. The sun seems to shine the most gorgeous shade of amber and the light is very bright but warm. The skies are very blue by day and filled with the most brightest of twinkliest stars by night.

We have been to local late night shopping evenings (the purpose …

I found some amazing necklaces the other day and wanted to share them with you. The beauty of the internet you see. I can show you something that is made in the UK and you can not only look at them but order one too, if you wanted. They are beautiful individual items created from recycled material. My favourites are the ones made from zips and watch parts. The creator is a trainee architect and has quite the eye for …

Our first year in Somerset marches on. It does not hang around for me to savour summer but pushes relentlessly on. September. October. Autumn. It is as if a page has flipped; the light is undertoned with amber in the sunshine and a strangely peaceful steely grey when it is not. Leaves are falling, the rain is no longer the laughing rain of a summer storm but more forceful. A taste of what is to come. The fronts scud off …

A word of note: having read some of my fellow writers ‘Day in the Life’ posts I hope that my own version does not seem too odd. Here in the UK, in one of the Sunday papers, the back page of the magazine runs a ‘Life in the Day’ column where (famous) people describe their life through the medium of their day. This is the way I have pretty much chosen to write mine. And apologies for the lack of …

One of the many things that I love about my husband is his ability and enthusiasm for cooking. He turns out restaurant quality food every evening that he is at home and is always trying out new things. Since moving to the West Country we have acquired much greater access to beautiful food. We can buy locally caught fish and locally reared meat and we try to buy as many local fruit and vegetables as possible as well. Our eggs, …

Suddenly, the countryside has come alive with blossom. I took these in our garden last weekend after a rather rainy day where we drove over the moors and down to the beach before retiring to home for tea, biscuits and a relaxing evening spent reading and blogging and sitting cosily in the kitchen with my husband.

The verges and hedges are full of greeness, wild flowers and new shoots. The whole place has been carpeted with soft green verdent grass. Birds …