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Weekend in Pictures

One of the many wool blankets

One of the many balls of wool

Stitching and watching the fire at Sally O’s house (this shot is actually Jason and Sally’s from Studio Sixty)

Sunday painting post ‘clear cote’ on floors

Bulbs making good progress

So I bought some more

Double Daffodil bulbs

Wood Chopping

Our newly delivered wood stack

Coco in her pied-à-terre, also known as the veggie patch

Gigi and Bettina

Celebrating our 6 year anniversary

I’m not sure where to start this post off today….so much happened over the weekend!

Why don’t I start at Saturday then…. so, as many of you know Nigella our little chicken is still at the avian vet’s getting treatment for Heavy Metal Poisoning. It looks as though she potentially ate (quite a lot of) lead at some point a couple of weeks ago. Lead is in a lot of things that are old; lead paint, lead nails, roofing materials, fishing equipment… the list is endless, and soil acts as a filter and harbours it. So us renovating an old home crossed with me collecting old things makes lead probably more available to a little chicken picking and scratching at ground level. Plus, we trimmed a collar for our flue for our fireplace which was made from zinc four weeks ago. Even though this was cleaned up, I’m fairly confident Nigella must of found a little stash somewhere. Heavy Metal Poisoning is very harmful and can be deadly, it affects pets and humans.

In light of this, Timothy O and I completely blitzed underneath our house on Saturday and threw out and sorted a lot of junk essentially. There are no photographs of this happening for ‘Weekend in Pictures’ as it was very very ugly…. and I would prefer not to remember it.

After a scrub down I popped over to see Sally O and to take a blanket stitch lesson. I’m working on a little blanket project and I need a lot of blankets hemmed, so Sally very kindly (she may of been forced)  has been stitching quite a few for me. Though with my lesson under my belt I’m set to handle ‘Project Blanket’ myself now. It was very relaxing to stitch and gaze into her newly installed fire.

Sunday here consisted of us doing more cleaning and organising under the house…. Timothy O applied the final ‘clear cote’ of the dining room floors and then did some patch up painting in the dining room, We received a delivery of wood, I planted 185 bulbs in the garden (i can’t wait for spring… hello colour!) while the girls watched on from the veggie patch.

We then slumped down in the backyard to celebrate our six year anniversary. I remember this date would mean going to fancy restaurants and blow drying my hair … these days it’s more like paint spattered overalls and drinking champagne too quick to relieve the muscle aches of renovating.

K x

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13 Comments to “Weekend in Pictures”

  1. Love your weekend posts.. they always sound so idyllic! (Apart from the heavy metal poisoning — hope Nigella recovers quickly!) xx

    • Glad you think so Erin… haha.. yes, the heavy metal poisoning is not idyllic at all. Hope your ankle gets better soon! xx

    • There were 30 blankets to blanket stitch… slowly the number is going down. Thanks Jane, I hope Nigella gets better soon too. xx

  2. The blankets! The blankets! I can’t make a fist today my fingers are so sore…but they are going to keep us all nice and toasty! Fingers crossed for little Nigella. xx

  3. Poor Nigella, we are so paranoid about lead paint, everything is covered with it in the house and we are slowly getting rid of it. It’s a whole operation with me taking Freddie out for the day and Matt stripping and breathing in the deadly fumes. Real nasty.

    I love ranunculus, they are on my planting list for the autumn.

    • Lead is very nasty Sneaky Magpie and as you know not something to be lax about. It’s good that you guys are ridding the house of it.

      I love ranunculus too! I have gone a bit crazy with them….. they will be popping up to say hello everywhere very soon! xx

  4. Hi there,
    Such gorgeous images!
    Wondering if you know the details of this fireplace?
    It’s just what I’m after.
    Thank you!
    Allison

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