An English summer

There is nothing quite like a English summer when the sun come's out and stays out. It's amazing that everytime we have travelled (I don't think we've been to many country's, more this last year than at any other time) the sun we look at is the same sun. Yet it gives of such diffrent levels of heat and intensity, depending on where you are, yet remember it's the same sun.

Eileen's (My mother-in-law) garden has an air of the tradtional English garden, again my favourite thing is a real old fashion English garden, I used to have one in our second home as a married couple,(and a few people reading this blog will remember kipling rd.) Eileens garden has a cattery in the back of the garden, but there is a patch for flowers in the front of the cattery, and if you take a moment to look at it..... well its wonderful. The honeysuckle swaying in the breeze gives of it's scent as you walk, I often linger as I walk by, I,m trying to remember the smell for when I go back to China. The roses are beautiful and rambling along the garden there carnations and lillies and other plants I do not know the names of. I wish I knew more plants names than the few I know.
I know antirrhinum's .. when I used to work in the nursing home I used to take one unsettled lady out to the gardens and she would settle and tell me the name's of a few flowers that were there.. and the one that stuck to mind was the antirrhinum.. Or for every one else
THE BUNNY RABBIT :)


Eileen's front garden has more sentimental value, half of it is a rose garden and beautiful it is, the roses are left to grow as they please, they are not stopped and kept as the owners would like but left to grow into who they are. In there, there are two roses, they are mine and Dean's. They are a memorial for the kids. The first one was when we lost our first baby, the second was when we lost Gabriel. We stopped at two, not because the other kids wern't important but because Eileen and Merv's garden was running out of room lol, also those two plants are for all our kids. There is a bench in front of Gabriel's rose and just on that odd occassion I sit there .. It's a beautiful spot whether you know what the roses are there for or not. Its just such a beautiful spot.

Another place I love to go in the English summer is the New Forest. Have you ever been, well it's a must.
There's so much to see and do .. but for me its those places where you stop off and have a little walk and find a nice stream to sit by and have a picnic and maybe even see the horses and donkeys walk by. The lovely forest at the back of you and a piece of grass to sit on.
One thing I have missed is mum talking about bluebell woods and how it was her favourite time of year, how even on her days of feeling so ill we would always go at least once and drive by some       where she could see them..

The other thing I love is walking along the sea front, on a blustery day, the wind in your hair,
 the crashing of waves. There is such freedom of walking by the sea as it keeps going forever, I always have a sense of feeling closterfobic when I get back from the sea.






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But this is my beautiful England xxx