i love a sunday afternoon...

evening all...
i am posting veeery late tonight due to the fact that ol'blighty has been bathed ALL weekend & today in glorious, gorgeous....rare sunshine....
we had a magic weekend of baking...a huge teen party...football {yep read soccer if you are a southern hemisphere friend!}...bbq-ing & backyard cricket...
H.E.A.V.E.N....
more on the birthday tomorrow....

tonight i want to share my sunday morning stop-&-smell-the-flowers-i-love-saturdays-club-post...
*a beach cottage- i love saturdays*
that's the name of the gang who just want to *take* a moment on a saturday...
a moment to enjoy life...enjoy our day-to-day time...
it's often the small inconsequential moments that bring the most pleasure...
check out sarah's thoughts on this *here*...

so...in keeping with sarah's *thoughts* for this weekend...

a walk...flowers...a little *playing* around with blossoms in the house...

taking time to *smell the roses* sort of thoughts...

the H & i went walking round our village...

we went flower hunting & paper buying...

the thought of *purchasing* flowers for this aussie girl did not even factor into the lovely *challenge* set by sarah this weekend...

as our village is awash with gorgeous blossoms...

& as any honest aussie knows...any plant that hangs over the fence line of a house is there for the taking..

this is not necessarily how things are done by the british in our village...

we got a few backward glances...

but look at those trees...who would notice a few missing buds...

so i collected from trees that overhung the street...

a small gorgeous armful of pink...

and i came home to play...

i gave some to my visiting sister-in-law...

i put them in little italian bottles next to her as she read in the sitting room...

i put more in little french bottles on a step in the kitchen...

and i popped some in little greek bottles for our bedroom...

spring blossoms throughout the house...

so beautiful...

so simple...

spring is now surrounding us inside & out

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in three visits to europe

my brother has never seen england without the gorgeous english sunshine

maybe he's blessed

this is the *moment* i was hoping to remember by walking...

collecting...

and placing these blossoms around the house...

...the moment of feeling *blessed* by life...

life is good

&

our sunday afternoon was the lovely end to a wonderful weekend in the english countryside

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happy monday all

 hope you had a *life is good- i feel blessed moment* over your weekend

xox

&

thankyou *sarah*