What a Lovely Week - and it's only Wednesday!

I've had a few days off this week and they've been really lovely days too.  One day was spent with a friend doing some family/local history research in Essex and then yesterday I was interviewed on Radio Suffolk about The Treasure Tree.  This is a business I'm involved with where we create animated stories and interactive resources for primary aged children.  If you want to hear the interview you can listen to it here until the 31.07.12, it starts at 1:34. 

I was really nervous waiting for the interview and couldn't bring myself to listen to it until tonight - but I have to say I'm quite pleased with how it turned out :-)

As it was a really hot day we decided to have a Treasure Tree outing after the interview.  We went here, some of you might recognise it?

It's Aldeburgh, on the Suffolk coast, one of my very favourite places.

I loved this old boat on the beach, with its peeling paint and rusty metal.

How plants can grow in the shingle always amazes me, there's no soil there at all.

 The red valerian looked stunning against the summer sky.

It was a beautiful evening and after we'd sipped gin and tonics in the hotel garden overlooking the sea, we had a lovely meal at The Wentworth Hotel.

Today has been less glamorous, but still lovely, as I decided to tackle my shed which looked like this at 9am this morning:

But several bin bags later (mainly of flower pots I have to admit!) it now looks like this:

As well as being able to see the floor and reach the shredder, I now have a drawer full of every different size of nails and screws that you could ever imagine, so if you ever need one you know where to come!

Look What I Found

When I moved here the garden was covered with bluebells, not the native ones but spanish ones - still pretty but rather invasive.  I've dug loads up but have also kept some, along the fences and in places where they can't smother my other plants.  But look what I discovered this week - white bluebells!  I've never seen them before and as they're growing in dense shade where not much else grows they can stay, as long as they don't start taking over.

White Bluebells

I also found these flowering this week - a whole 3 weeks earlier than last year!

Dwarf Iris - Knick Knack

This week I also started to tackle an area of the garden behind the veg patch that hadn't really ever had any attention from me:

Before

The sharp eyed among you will notice that the wonky post has been removed and replaced by some equally wonky decking - I'd hate to break the habit of a life time and do anything level!  Personally I'm blaming the pallets underneath for not being straight, but it's better than it was before! I'm planning to plant some roses and clematis to climb over the pergola and put a bench underneath.

After

Fran and I acquired one of the pallets a couple of years ago, we saw it next to a skip in the front garden of a house enroute to a local garden centre.  On the way home we knocked and the rather bemused owner let me take it.  Incidently Fran has just posted some really lovely pictures of her garden over on her blog Lazi Dazi, if you haven't already visited her over there already, do pop over and take a look.

What else have I been doing this week - sewing, but that's another post another day!