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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>it's back...a little pre-autumn sunshine...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">i love the that moment, at the end of an crazy busy morning...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">groceries stacked in the back of the people mover...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">P.O & banking done...computer ink sorted for the kiddos homework...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">village local food market in the back of my mind for before school pick-up...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">that moment...when i just stop with a cup of tea...a bunch of *chuck-it-in-with-the-shopping-roses*...and all my chippy bits in the garden...& some blessed sunshine...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj60QI0ZSHw126xyEfgKcpA7scqPeN4MTSTrAbH3iKTRaTFvoQslUNpCoJCzSbAJWHt507PEX5afXfl0zTOvRMyqQBkAHMz6wYUj4ZDJWlAuHTX_ijUE6nQc3sbRUBpoS-MRaUopLomhyphenhyphen-0/s1600/lastspring5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj60QI0ZSHw126xyEfgKcpA7scqPeN4MTSTrAbH3iKTRaTFvoQslUNpCoJCzSbAJWHt507PEX5afXfl0zTOvRMyqQBkAHMz6wYUj4ZDJWlAuHTX_ijUE6nQc3sbRUBpoS-MRaUopLomhyphenhyphen-0/s640/lastspring5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>i truly thought we'd seen the last of it for a while...i'd even changed my birky's for ballet slippers...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">but we are being blessed with another <s>late late late summer</s> early autumn dose of it...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">warm enough to open all the windows & doors...heaven for this aussie girl...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">so...tea in hand...groceries chucked in the kitchen for <s>the maid</s> later...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">i just played around in the sunshine...with the camera...& enjoyed <i>the moment</i>...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">i've been up here in the north for long enough to realise that it <i>ain't gonna last baby!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifEtf5oR8I9mwNMQWbHaMhK-HfAsSH7OW4qaWO05JSp0FifX8Vtc1GtQhb34wY0KhCstErLK9AgIS2Tqfh5QXOy8mRcUiHI2NmF3C5KGzeLikZyLNmZPuuSNZ2-N0F_8xNck9R36Q4Blye/s1600/last+spring6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifEtf5oR8I9mwNMQWbHaMhK-HfAsSH7OW4qaWO05JSp0FifX8Vtc1GtQhb34wY0KhCstErLK9AgIS2Tqfh5QXOy8mRcUiHI2NmF3C5KGzeLikZyLNmZPuuSNZ2-N0F_8xNck9R36Q4Blye/s640/last+spring6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>it's ok to put things <i>on hold</i> for a little heart warming...make-me-a-happy-mamma sunshine isn't it?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">i mean i have lugged & carried & shopped & cooked & planned the entire day from sun up, till we hit 7:15 tonight & the last bambino has been collected from her last <i>extra curricular </i>activity for the day...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">the moment when i pour myself a big glass of french vino...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">so...really a little chippy chair loving & playing with flowers in the sunshine is a pretty tame vice...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">wouldn't you think?</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8J1wLZmj6QxSXh9zHN0mptNIF-xFpBbrikVG2aA6i9X3PQiye4cr2GRzv0LNd05wf5Q2lHink891r_J10zFeK0U3NKy-lHcq0y5SNUECp3QWYts9vRE42m9-1-t_fs8UCX8j3Mdl7jMBo/s1600/lastspring.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8J1wLZmj6QxSXh9zHN0mptNIF-xFpBbrikVG2aA6i9X3PQiye4cr2GRzv0LNd05wf5Q2lHink891r_J10zFeK0U3NKy-lHcq0y5SNUECp3QWYts9vRE42m9-1-t_fs8UCX8j3Mdl7jMBo/s640/lastspring.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>you know i'm in my <s>de-crappifying </s> sorting the house mode...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">so it's good for me to get outside and just smell the roses ;)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">to leave the *god-where-does-all-this-stuff-come-from* piles inside blocking the doorway...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">to have just a little downtime...you know, get my enthusiasm back to unpack the shopping i just lugged...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">i'd really rather just finish my sewing & sit in the sun...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">curse me!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">life is sometimes too full- or maybe i just need more time...hours...hands...!?</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2_u7TMYmR0CTt8iLCthdqqb20huRYSbB_SYP_QPJRbRiU5VshDjt2kKjTM0IuNiHpTCAH64GjYbqXdkfI3S4VAn1MZcW6DBVHwyMcMSP7g_NexRdsPHIOZpdrXuf6j5y2a2tCZm5wXkPN/s1600/lastspring1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2_u7TMYmR0CTt8iLCthdqqb20huRYSbB_SYP_QPJRbRiU5VshDjt2kKjTM0IuNiHpTCAH64GjYbqXdkfI3S4VAn1MZcW6DBVHwyMcMSP7g_NexRdsPHIOZpdrXuf6j5y2a2tCZm5wXkPN/s640/lastspring1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <b>so...i'm thinking a little balance today is what i need...</b><br /><b><br /></b><br />i'm on a roll & then come 8 o'clock i'm being put to bed by the kids...<br /><br />not a cool look...makes me seem a little errrr...old apparently!<br /><br />who taught those children to have opinions!<br /><br />so...just for a bit i'm getting a good dose of northern english countryside sunshine...<br /><br />just what this beach-reared mama needs...<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTC05Di5bOsOlzfuModTndyvIUyI02CeG_leN6vxfcWPw_AEkr_ycoVcWQBXfzo7na-DAIg7NGoAJTcHUJwMv2kyYlqoD7E8jOHtaMP1Nlm0-qOkPPmN8zXT28r-d8_ZXnX83TTcSwxWwK/s1600/lastspring3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTC05Di5bOsOlzfuModTndyvIUyI02CeG_leN6vxfcWPw_AEkr_ycoVcWQBXfzo7na-DAIg7NGoAJTcHUJwMv2kyYlqoD7E8jOHtaMP1Nlm0-qOkPPmN8zXT28r-d8_ZXnX83TTcSwxWwK/s640/lastspring3.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">hope you're getting out in it</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">playing with flowers</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">loving your old bits ;)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">&</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">enjoying the moment</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">xxx</div><div style="text-align: center;">melissa</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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chippy chairs...roses & late summer sunshine...

it's back...a little pre-autumn sunshine... i love the that moment, at the end of an crazy busy morning... groceries stacked in the back...

<b>hello sweet bloggy friends...</b><br />i'm sitting in the kiddos playroom...looking out the big bay windows at our little garden allotment...<br />it's a new thing for us...growing our own vege...<br />&<br />believe me, if i can do it, anyone can...<br />not that i don't have a green thumb- i just had a mental block thing happening...<br />it's taken me three years of living in the english countryside to start thinking like an english gal...<br />not a beach-reared...do-not-water-anything-with-the hose-unless-it-is-after-5pm-&-a-monday-or-a-friday-kinda-aussie-gardening-gal...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqMXsr2hdMizSW_R_93MC_HVnqtDsdv43xeLX1yqLSdQR3Q3CP-IzS54cXpKYF6E82HoB9tfxLnbSp0A4UkOcjqXzfhXl0kMSTpVH6xEZsX32TwNPZaHHX-VnLX9jcMObsUIbYoK7wsYEe/s1600/herbs1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqMXsr2hdMizSW_R_93MC_HVnqtDsdv43xeLX1yqLSdQR3Q3CP-IzS54cXpKYF6E82HoB9tfxLnbSp0A4UkOcjqXzfhXl0kMSTpVH6xEZsX32TwNPZaHHX-VnLX9jcMObsUIbYoK7wsYEe/s640/herbs1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b>you see...in Australia water restrictions are pretty normal...</b><br />well...they were three years ago when we made the big move north of the globe...<br />i was able to water my garden two afternoons a  week, & only after 5pm...<br />car washing on the drive- was a seriously big no-no...<br />kiddos thrown under a sprinkler for the afternoon- even bigger!<br />memories that i had made growing up were not being made for our kids!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjVP9ZWJPga57WnxZ6yrHl4iM2OsXwWYB64EiEntTEuuuBc3WHwzJFrO7uypPw3ybVcLi_RK0oR-8_TzB_UQZP5OmPreAWwo9bkt1pXlYrZcAFTz54RlsPvJ-MuXMBVSkm7DNk1CKHWInb/s1600/herbs3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjVP9ZWJPga57WnxZ6yrHl4iM2OsXwWYB64EiEntTEuuuBc3WHwzJFrO7uypPw3ybVcLi_RK0oR-8_TzB_UQZP5OmPreAWwo9bkt1pXlYrZcAFTz54RlsPvJ-MuXMBVSkm7DNk1CKHWInb/s640/herbs3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b>so...now we find ourselves in the land of water...</b><br /><b>endless water where kiddos are free to<i> live</i> under a running-non-stop-sprinkling-system...</b><br />but for our aussie beach-reared kids this luxury is missing one element-constant <s>hot</s> warm weather!<br />this does all work for an english vege garden though, i now know...<br />it's the summer rain...sun...rain...sun thing that get's everything up & thriving...<br /><i>three years folks & at long last i have cottoned on to why my BB (british bestie) has the coolest home vege garden i've ever seen!</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7cfng8CT2UHOKZOlnJWNalQOfnz-vd9s25arZasSDLQLFJQ7JAiPsaqS3JbtnU8avX_XQuLDNce7X0VwmMZQSzcxhNz3kAyxUrI4f5rgoij-i83JJ4pD__jRJ0of-1tIF1oJaPA2WplNZ/s1600/herbs2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7cfng8CT2UHOKZOlnJWNalQOfnz-vd9s25arZasSDLQLFJQ7JAiPsaqS3JbtnU8avX_XQuLDNce7X0VwmMZQSzcxhNz3kAyxUrI4f5rgoij-i83JJ4pD__jRJ0of-1tIF1oJaPA2WplNZ/s640/herbs2.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><i><br /></i><br /><b>so...i now find myself sitting, tea in hand, watching over our garden of vege smiling to my self...</b><br />audrey has discovered that not all green food is *disgusting*...<br />(yes i have to sadly admit that our littlest lovely has used this word many-a-time when faced with a <s>plate</s> piece of greenery on her plate!)<br />she scored a pretty cute little metal watering can & a tin bucket to go vege & lettuce picking & it's working!<br />she gathers herbs for every meal...& has pulled her elder sister & brother up on the herb names & what *mummy actually asked for*!<br /><i>should have pulled my finger out a few years ago...& we'd have had years of success at the dinner table with her greens...</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEcq6VB7p2xzIZgGBiSmGyjCQay3LJd88NMpvJPbnz-eogYArntSWRmkd5mQe33DeF80IspnfvDAzFYrduO3kex2Mm-Uxs_syWJ915W9L3aocpspK2rQA8AFhvWPJrda_vn0nLrfrSJfnq/s1600/herbs4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEcq6VB7p2xzIZgGBiSmGyjCQay3LJd88NMpvJPbnz-eogYArntSWRmkd5mQe33DeF80IspnfvDAzFYrduO3kex2Mm-Uxs_syWJ915W9L3aocpspK2rQA8AFhvWPJrda_vn0nLrfrSJfnq/s640/herbs4.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><i><br /></i><br /><i><b>so...i'm smiling big that we have got there in the end...</b></i><br />we've had other big moments over the last three years...<br />maybe i appretiate this little allotment in our front garden a little more as the journey's been longer...<br />the gardening journey...<br />the one that can involve lots of lovely water...<br />a garden sprinkler & laughing kids...<br />&<br />french watering cans of love...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqMXsr2hdMizSW_R_93MC_HVnqtDsdv43xeLX1yqLSdQR3Q3CP-IzS54cXpKYF6E82HoB9tfxLnbSp0A4UkOcjqXzfhXl0kMSTpVH6xEZsX32TwNPZaHHX-VnLX9jcMObsUIbYoK7wsYEe/s1600/herbs1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqMXsr2hdMizSW_R_93MC_HVnqtDsdv43xeLX1yqLSdQR3Q3CP-IzS54cXpKYF6E82HoB9tfxLnbSp0A4UkOcjqXzfhXl0kMSTpVH6xEZsX32TwNPZaHHX-VnLX9jcMObsUIbYoK7wsYEe/s640/herbs1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">a life made lovely monday</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">a thriving vege garden in the english countryside</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">watered endlessly by aussie beach-reared kiddos</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">&</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">eaten by a very fussy 6 year old cutie</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">that's gotta be good for the soul</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">xox</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">{head over here to check out some other lives made lovely}</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><center><a href="http://www.lifemadelovely-blog.com/search/label/life%20made%20lovely%20mondays"><img border="0" src="http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv65/hamiltonfive/lifemadelovelybutton.png" /></a></center><center><br /></center><center><br /></center><center><br /></center><center><br /></center>

a life made lovely in an english vege garden...

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