After a few months' worth of virtual friendship we met Judit, the blogger who puts up so many lovely pictures from a variety of fascinating homes and gardens/country living/interior design magazines on her blog. She came out to us to see where we live and find out our ideas about country living.
We had a delightful time with her. It is always a pleasure to meet new people, especially ones like her: being very interesting herself as well as being interested in us and many other things. She arrived around 11am and didn't leave until after 4pm. It seemed like 5 minutes, which is always a good sign. I showed her around the three buildings and the garden, then we had some home grown teas (lemon balm and mint), sat outside on the garden furniture, using the swing's cushions and chatted and chatted and chatted.
The birds sang, we watched a couple of Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers looking for food and chasing each other. Later a buzzard appeared right overhead, so close that I was getting worried about the other birds in the garden. The weather was perfect and other than while we had lunch we were outside all the time. Lunch was a salad, Roy's with chicken, ours with smoked salmon. We followed it with home grown stewed rhubarb with cream. Yum, yum!! The roses and geraniums in the driveway were absolutely brilliant in the sunshine, it made me think what a shame it is to leave for 3 and half weeks, just as they are looking their best. :-(
She took some photos, including that of the stag beetle, but I took some as well, so that she could choose the best ones for her blog post. It'll probably come out early next week and we are both looking forward to seeing it already.
We are off to BP tomorrow by bus, followed by Night Champs on Saturday (I'm having a lift from Laci), then last minute shopping, packing and off next Wednesday.
We had a delightful time with her. It is always a pleasure to meet new people, especially ones like her: being very interesting herself as well as being interested in us and many other things. She arrived around 11am and didn't leave until after 4pm. It seemed like 5 minutes, which is always a good sign. I showed her around the three buildings and the garden, then we had some home grown teas (lemon balm and mint), sat outside on the garden furniture, using the swing's cushions and chatted and chatted and chatted.
The birds sang, we watched a couple of Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers looking for food and chasing each other. Later a buzzard appeared right overhead, so close that I was getting worried about the other birds in the garden. The weather was perfect and other than while we had lunch we were outside all the time. Lunch was a salad, Roy's with chicken, ours with smoked salmon. We followed it with home grown stewed rhubarb with cream. Yum, yum!! The roses and geraniums in the driveway were absolutely brilliant in the sunshine, it made me think what a shame it is to leave for 3 and half weeks, just as they are looking their best. :-(
She took some photos, including that of the stag beetle, but I took some as well, so that she could choose the best ones for her blog post. It'll probably come out early next week and we are both looking forward to seeing it already.
We are off to BP tomorrow by bus, followed by Night Champs on Saturday (I'm having a lift from Laci), then last minute shopping, packing and off next Wednesday.
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