Apologies for the absence of posts over the last few days - this has been due in part to the endless rain (rain the garden needs, but nevertheless makes outdoor living impossible!)....but also due to my other 'home improvement' project - decorating.
So, I have been Absent While Decorating.
When we moved to our house, we inherited amongst other things, some slightly spurious decorating. If I say off blue fleur de lys wallpaper with a second rate william morris style border, crossed with off blue on turquoise sponging, you'll be able to envisage our living room.
Now since our living room overlooks the garden, and once the garden is in full swing, I want to smugly sit and admire it, the quarters from which I admire need to be pleasant.
To be honest, that's probably too polite a way of putting it, and I am trying too hard to segue neatly into a garden related motivation.
Basically the room is a HORROR. It's a feng shui nightmare, a Laurence Llewellyn Bowen gone wrong, an interior design crime. It had to be changed as husband and I decided we could suffer its visual assault no longer.
So all week I've been painting over said fleur de lys (yes, we needed a quick fix - we didn't have time to strip all the offending paper off) with a calming blue colour. It's the first time I've decorated a room, and my goodness, it's exhausting, and requires meticulous attention to detail, patience, and perseverance that to be honest not even my darling garden extracts from me.
My son has just woken so I will post the second half of this story later...
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Wow. A Laurence Llewellyn Bowen gone right is usally a frightening enough prospect without one that has gone wrong!
I sincerely hope you have been spared lacey ruffs up the curtains and zany zebra striped wall rugs... mind you, even they'd be better than the dreaded fleur de lys! Actually isn't the fleur de lys slang for some sort of pox that decimated British forces during the Peninsula War?
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