Finally had some rain last week, it absolutely poured with rain on Thursday.  Great timing, I'd spent all day Wednesday working in the garden, planting up some new acquisitions.  And I finally finished my seaside garden!

It's a strip of land at the end of our garden, it's got weed mat with gravel on top, but we had a new fence put up a couple of years ago.  The earth that the workmen dug out to put the concrete posts in was just left in piles on top of the gravel and so it's been full of weeds down there.  Anyhoo, I cleared it last autumn, and turned the piles of earth into gravelly flower beds.  This year I've been planting it up and now have a seaside garden!

I really need a proper deckchair down there....

 

See that old fence post plus concrete in the corner?  SO heavy, I couldn't move it.  So I just rolled it into the corner and wrapped a bit of rope round it.  Hopefully it looks like it's supposed to be there!  lol




Kids' sandcastle buckets



Here's our pride & joy, bought four years ago with my redundancy money and well worth every penny! 

mmmm, noo camper!

Such lovely weather at the moment, had a trip to Brightlingsea in our camper van recently and visited Beth Chatto Gardens on the way home.  Wonderful place, well worth a visit (if you like gardens!).  Took loads of photos...here's a taster...

More of my favourite photos....


Venice



Bruges windows





Garitsa Bay, Corfu



Bought myself a couple of nice tops from Evans recently with ¾-length sleeves. The blue goes perfectly with my La Redoute brown & blue skirt...see!

sequins on crochet trim

And a coral coloured one, a slightly different design...

Also bought a belt for 50p in the local charity shop..I do love a bargain!

Pretty isn't it?

Lovely sunny day today but a horrible chilly wind, with really strong gusts.  A price one has to pay for living near the sea, I suppose.  I've been doing a bit more gardening lately, Evergreened the lawn last week as there is loads of moss up the top end along the wall where the sun never shines.

lawn, pre-treatment

I'll take another photo next week to see if it looks any better.   The moss is already looking black and dead so a bit of raking is required.  Still haven't sorted out the raised bed in the middle, lots of pots filled with lots of weeds!  Off to the local garden centre tomorrow, see if anything takes my fancy.