By the time I was free to plant those 200 odd last bulbs, it was looking like this outside….so it was not the (awful) weather that got in the way and thwarted me but unexpected visitors (delightful) and pitch darkness!
So I did this instead:
And then I cleared away some of the claptrap (including that cork) that the camera had unkindly picked up… It hasn’t really been cold enough yet to ‘need’ the fire but it does make a big difference to the mood of the room. We don’t seem to hang around in there in the summer, it feels unfinished somehow with an empty grate – even stuffed with flowers. Sometime in the next couple of weeks I will have to face up to blackleading the fire surround – down on my knees scrubbing at the filthy stuff like the original Victorian maids, though fortunately for me not much more than an annual rather than a daily chore!
Will try to tick off those bulbs tomorrow.
SpinningStreak 