The upcoming move

Hi all,

I’ve been absent a while as we’ve been super busy with our upcoming move to Sweden. I have loads to tell you about all sorts of things but time is short and brain space is currently non-existent. Instead here are some flowers from our garden, well, what is left of our garden. As it’s mainly gravel and the faux grass had to go to a new home it’s gone from green to grey. But we have this tiny little flowerbed that I made and here are some of its delights. Perfectly timed to keep up our cheer.

One of the hardest things for all of us is having to get rid of stuff we like but can’t take. Every move it seems to be plants that can be hardest. I’ve always found that plants really make a house a home and make all the difference to the feel of a place. Because of this plants tend to be one of the first things we buy when we arrive in a new place so we can get quite attached. Also, they’re one thing I’m always happy for the kids to buy for their rooms.

A really good way of letting these go is giving them to people who we like. We give plants to teachers as goodbye and thank you gifts and to folk we are friends with. In order to make this a little more special I’ve taken to making crochet pot covers for the plants. It just adds a little touch and is some really good crochet therapy for my overworked brain.

Hopefully I’ll have more brain space another time to fill you in on a recent fabulous experience we had here - dressing up as Geisha and Maiko. But that is for another time.

Moving is a real bitch. It doesn’t matter how excited we are about our next location the actual move and saying goodbye to those we love is hard and it doesn’t matter how many times we’ve done it, it doesn’t get any easier.

For now I need to clean out some cupboards.

Toodle-pip.

Xxx