Share a cuppa tea with me

hello my friends and fellow bloggers. sit down and share a cup of tea with me, i have this new huge mug (from M&S) a bit like those they use in Central Perk on Friends, isnt it cute! gives you extra tea too. I've come in from the garden its a blustery out there today and though the sun is out the wind can be a bit too much when youre just sitting quietly. Ive been resting a bit more for a week or so, as my recovery needs that. The illness i had and am now in recovery from was ME also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, and lasted over 15 years,much of which i spent in our home largely in bed. So it with with great gratitude that i am now enjoying the wonderful countryside,seeing freinds and family, taking part in normal things like eating a meal, and generally slowly but surely getting back into life. So if at times i blog in spurts and am then absent for a while you will know i am taking a rest or indeed i could be branching out into doing something new that i havent in many many years,like walking in our front street.

Infact that leads me onto the other thing i wanted to talk about today and that is my street and my house which ive got some pics to share. Its not so iydillic a setting as some people's homes ive visitted on my blog travels but its ours and ive been here all my life, well since age 2, which is almost 30 yrs, gosh i hadnt thought of it as that long, but it is! Our street is very quiet really despite all the cars, everyone gets along and though we dont have the street parties we had when we were little(for the royal weddings and things like that) which led onto trips out at christmas to pantomimes and such. We are still a friendly place to be and everyone is nice around about us. Good neighbours are the sort of thing you take for granted when theyre there but which if things were different you would really wish for.So here is our house i was sitting in the car out in the street taking this which is how its a bit of a funny angle but it gives you a picture at least! and here's some of the view from my parents bedroom looking down and then up the street.. we have had some lovely colours on the hydrangea bush this year a mixture some blue some pink and some lilac i never got round to taking any photos but you can see the last of the pink ones on the photo of our house. i spotted this photo in country living magazine and thought it beautiful.. i love how the petals are in the shape of four leaf clovers!So with their good luck wishes i'll say goodbye for today Kat xx

Comments

[Hazel]

Hi Kat,
I enjoyed reading your blog, the pictures of your home and street brought back a few memories of my childhood in England :)
Glad you are taking the rest you need, I can't imagine how hard it must have been for you all those years. Love the M&S mug (I miss M&S)
I am sitting here myself with a cup of tea in my special bunny mug from Whittards.

[Bonnie]

Hi Kat. Love the mug-so pretty...and your nails look lovely-love the pinky color you painted them! Your hydrangeas are beautiful! I too love them as they hold fond memories of growing up-we always seemed to have them in our garden wherever we lived and my dear gran also had tons of the most exquisite colors. Your house looks so cute and although I do like the qaint streets in England-the way all the houses look very similar. It makes it look very neat and clean. Here all the houses are different- some face brick, some plastered and painted, some double story next to one level, some with fences, some without, some with electric fencing (likes us) some without...a real diversity in our own street. I must take a pic for you to see the difference! Enjoy your new tea mug and I am happy to hear you are feeling better and just enjoying life! Much love Bonnie

[Annie's Abode]

Yes please.

I have just found your emails in my spam filter for some reason????? Sorry that I haven't acknowledged them before.

It is nice to hear you are in recovery - it is a horrible condition. People don't often understand those non tangible illnesses and it hard to deal with people's responses. I hope they have been kind to you.

I hope there is cake with that tea!

love ax

thank you for your comments about my boys oska and finn