Home Interior: garden

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first of the changes to my study...I moved the desk 90 degrees so it now comes out from the wall instead of being up against it (nothing likes being 'up against it' I'm sure!)... so this is the view when I'm sitting at my desk...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like being able to look out through the house and into the courtyard...even with the ugly brown lattice...don't worry, it's on the hit list.  If I slouch I can see out to the hills too! And you can see why there's a permanent furrow in the sofa cushion can't you...the vampire slayer's favourite spot. But how I love my chandeliers...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR6RrU1w6GlrLqKo1ySGMXRznLoztygODxN0u59dHY-oLdupnF1Pov_iWdljOkiGi8Zj5f98TEmAuhfeTZkRKyNVM9hIBGA5-q99snyTEgeKhi78kPLjT-HrmCj36y4DoEWqgceniHTn5Y/s1600/study+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR6RrU1w6GlrLqKo1ySGMXRznLoztygODxN0u59dHY-oLdupnF1Pov_iWdljOkiGi8Zj5f98TEmAuhfeTZkRKyNVM9hIBGA5-q99snyTEgeKhi78kPLjT-HrmCj36y4DoEWqgceniHTn5Y/s640/study+006.JPG" width="434" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next thing...painting the study furniture white.  Three bookcases and a desk...not sure I'm up for that at the moment...but do stay tuned...you just never know :)</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's Anzac Day today. If change is good, so is remembering. I wrote about it last year...<a href="http://tranquiltownhouse.blogspot.com/2010/04/anzac-memories.html">here</a> if you're interested. And also one of my most<a href="http://tranquiltownhouse.blogspot.com/2010/10/passing-on-blog-loveand-my-most.html"> embarrassing moments</a> (there have been a few) happened one Anzac </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Day as well. In Papua New Guinea. I can laugh about it now!</span><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85794/tranquiltownhouse/6aa76c55681784d717c463ecc754d7c5.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a>

change is good...so is remembering

The first of the changes to my study...I moved the desk 90 degrees so it now comes out from the wall instead of being up against it (nothing...

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't often go to the Farmers Market near my house...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">goodness knows why...it's a two minute drive away on a Sunday morning.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbaLm10Bj54DtXMHySoI4FPwI-OvwwjMvUqjzhvH_J1jpaivLnlClMybLc-zPzoGdIYc092k-YF_YGVz_TJxx1Y-YzsUzsx3uz4ORThLrOpZ5X8hbhF6Xt3w9GWtuG5LHeyc9_YyXLfBHy/s1600/cyclamen+close+up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbaLm10Bj54DtXMHySoI4FPwI-OvwwjMvUqjzhvH_J1jpaivLnlClMybLc-zPzoGdIYc092k-YF_YGVz_TJxx1Y-YzsUzsx3uz4ORThLrOpZ5X8hbhF6Xt3w9GWtuG5LHeyc9_YyXLfBHy/s640/cyclamen+close+up.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's probably precisely because it's a sunday morning that I don't!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidA_vQhEgLaWnELDr9r8or6iEu8X9Vau65TY9iidjI1tDrQzF9cVOnopnAldJO7w-vPiXMN_oX5rAWPl9BbAF7zRJ2ci7mWLrihOp-qb6XqZOOg4C2IQ6JS5Spvd7MwAOfRnwrUOJd_nzJ/s1600/coriander+and+spinach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidA_vQhEgLaWnELDr9r8or6iEu8X9Vau65TY9iidjI1tDrQzF9cVOnopnAldJO7w-vPiXMN_oX5rAWPl9BbAF7zRJ2ci7mWLrihOp-qb6XqZOOg4C2IQ6JS5Spvd7MwAOfRnwrUOJd_nzJ/s640/coriander+and+spinach.jpg" width="624" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did this week though...as you can see. A pretty $4 cyclamen and $2 pots of coriander and baby spinach.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDn6i9mw-P4uA-gx82D4Pp8YBl_xyZ20xBlwc07_s00HVHpnbKBuSKIM0Q5RL998LggF1Ynuo2M3tgWE2STsvZ57OUXRbio3CuT_M2Wa4wzcgIyjhyPv_UqQKcZOx4HPPQtRwrbl_VuCHG/s1600/cyclamen+and+figure.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDn6i9mw-P4uA-gx82D4Pp8YBl_xyZ20xBlwc07_s00HVHpnbKBuSKIM0Q5RL998LggF1Ynuo2M3tgWE2STsvZ57OUXRbio3CuT_M2Wa4wzcgIyjhyPv_UqQKcZOx4HPPQtRwrbl_VuCHG/s640/cyclamen+and+figure.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I bought vegetables and a venison, porcini and hazelnut pate too. Eaten before photographed. Sorry about that. And I'm very partial to an ice bucket plant holder. And garden urns used as ice buckets now that I think about it :)</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm linking this retrospectively (I do hope that's allowed) to <a href="http://www.abeachcottage.com/2011/04/linky-party-beach-cottage-good-life-weds-the-butter-box.html#more-3529">Sarah's link party...good life Wednesday</a>. Because what's better than a $4 cyclamen...except of course, a free one!</span><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85794/tranquiltownhouse/6aa76c55681784d717c463ecc754d7c5.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhybUQzNQjzCI1TJHB3pBHV-Djwb1vUPUNuiJ3VZ18tTqSUI8ouH2NyGkaRO3Q-G5fE0JNBVCsRj4jEP-6SCjpJC8lPXCgRcdK5tdvYTo33gRr1TaMhnlJH5JbeIwiwYOxEJEysofGIrUCe/s1600/cyclamen+and+painting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhybUQzNQjzCI1TJHB3pBHV-Djwb1vUPUNuiJ3VZ18tTqSUI8ouH2NyGkaRO3Q-G5fE0JNBVCsRj4jEP-6SCjpJC8lPXCgRcdK5tdvYTo33gRr1TaMhnlJH5JbeIwiwYOxEJEysofGIrUCe/s320/cyclamen+and+painting.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>

a cyclamen from the farmers market...

I don't often go to the Farmers Market near my house... goodness knows why...it's a two minute drive away on a Sunday morning. It...