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Showing posts with label Poppy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poppy. Show all posts
Friday, 4 June 2010
Once upon a time there was a lovely boy called Moon Shadow.
He was a lovely cuddly handsom boy and he loved his wives, even if they didn't always love him. He was gentle and patient with them, liking to bring a little romance into what some stallions may have thought of as a chore...
And once the huffing and puffing was over with he liked a handful of pony nuts and a pat and a little snooze cuddled up to his human.
One day a new girl came along called Poppy. Shadow was besotted. Unfortunately Poppy wasn't- oh dear!
Naughty Poppy resisted Shadow's courting and played hard to get...
But after a little Shadow magic she came round to his way of thinking
And we are so pleased - because the result is...
Promise!
Summerwood Dragonfly Promises- is his official name but he will be Promise to his friends...
Born in the early hours of this morning, mum and baby doing fantastic!
There will be more photos- many more! I have 55 already!! You must tell me when you get fed up of them! But for now I have an afterbirth to find and check over- yuk!
Just thought you would like to see the new addition to our happy ever after family... Jx
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Poppy is still refusing to pop!!
Darcy has got bored of waiting for her...
and the chickens are running a sweepstake on it being a phantom pregnancy!
After what seems like a year - but in fact is only a week... we are finally getting to see the results of some of our efforts, at least I hope we are...
Curtains are back up but we are still sofaless
Pictures are on the walls
my lovely new birthday print is framed and on the wall
even the biggest magnolia fan can get a bit fed up of it- but at least everywhere is beginning to look neat and clean- here's one I started earlier- if by the way you have a teenage daughter who is begging for Happy Purple on her bedroom wall- don't do it! It is the worst colour ever to cover!!
I agree with you about the lawn it is very sad and brown but at least this rain we are getting today is good for something - the garden is now flat and boring and newly seeded where it needs to be- MrP assures me that prospective buyers will look at it and think "easy to maintain"- I on the other hand look at it and think where are all the plants??
the pond filter has been cleaned and new plants put in, which the fish are trying their hardest to destroy!!
all the decking is scrubbed clean and lovely pots of flowers and herbs set out- the gaps in the lavender hedge have been filled with new plants
We just now need someone to buy it...
Friday, 28 May 2010
(rough winds do shake the darling buds of May and summers lease has all to short a date... for me the most perfect flowers in the world. I never tire of them and they are with us such a short time - already the field looks like there has been a wedding with the scattered confetti petals.)
Since the move back to the old house we haven't stopped... there was moving - on the hottest weekend ever!! Which at several points I thought was actually going to kill me. To be honest it all went pretty smoothly. The old suite has gone- hurray! Donated to my sister for her new house because it will go with her decour. However the new one hasn't arrived yet so we are sofaless. Not that we would get chance to sit on them anyway.
(there are curtains you understand they are down for decorating)
The jungle is almost tamed- I'm not sure that MrPs bowling green lawn ever will be again though but I have scattered on aftercut and prayed for a light sprinkling of rain which mother nature provided for me through the night. I have weeded like a mad woman and put down weed control fabric and bark in the front garden (I have mentioned before my aversion to front garden gardening) so it is neat at least - if a little uninspiring- you can't have everything.
It has been decided for the purposes of selling that the veg garden is to be done away with (that's okay, I can live with that, so long as I have the greenhouse and my herb pots) and replaced with lawn. So there is more weeding and digging and raking to be done...
The pond is now clear and the remaining fish can breathe again-
(the big black one is Albert- he eats out of your hand- such a sweetie!)
they can't eat because Cairo ate all their food last night while we were at the stables- he says it wasn't him, it was Saffi, but I am pretty sure it was him and it is Cairo who keeps chewing grass this morning so I think my boy may have belly ache- serves him right!!
(who do you think looks most guilty?)
So a 1980s semi (especially a 4 bedroom one! which is way too big for just MrP and me) on a nice enough estate with a neat lawned garden, double glazing and modern fittings is my idea of hell- sorry if it's your idea of heaven I'm just talking about me and I'm a bit strange... but this is what we have to work with and it needs to be sold so that we can move to our happily ever after cottage in the country- and PDQ too! The vendor won't keep it off the market forever for us.
So I am sorry I am quiet and not getting back to as many people as I would like but there are walls that need magnolia-ing
Normal service will be resumed ASAP
(the girls this morning- now in adjoining fields just in case Poppy pops today)
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