Simply..simpler....

I thought you might enjoy a look at Peter Sparrey's work here. I adore the yellow bowls. The markings on ours are like an intricately hand drawn map, the lid a perfect fit, the handle lively.

After a week's rain it's back to the garden redesign and I find that there too I am daring to be simpler and simpler....

But I am continuing first with my honest look at the current condition of things. Some of the garden furniture is in a parlous state...(I wonder what parlous means exactly?) Anyway it is not good. The bargain sets of coloured table and chairs are wearing out and/or fading.

We have three sets of these. They were fun and cost about £20 ten or more years ago and have been used constantly, so no shame to them! I will look in autumn for another (one!) bargain set and offer these to an artist friend who makes metal sculptures.

.One of the found-on-the-shore planks is rotten, the other is beginning to rot but will do another year if I give it a scrub and position myself  on it carefully..

In the wetter west of Scotland wood furniture doesn't always weather to a lovely silver..

Before you get depressed too, here's a photo from July last year..

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But wait!

There's more!

Oh OK, I'll save it for tomorrow.