With the unseasonably warm weather we have had recently we have been venturing into our garden a lot more. We moved into our house in August, knowing that we would have to live in it as it was for at least a little while in order to come up with the finance to build the large extension that it would need as well as a new bathroom and kitchen and a complete revamp of all decoration. I plan to give you a grand tour, when I can pluck up the courage to reveal just how un-blog worthy my reality is. I love reading blogs where I only see the 'good' bits of people's lives, but that really isn't who I am. I am a warts and all type of girl so there was never any hope I would be able to maintain anything else on my blog! Besides, seeing the squalor I live in is bound to make someone else feel better about their situation - I will think of it as a charitable service!
Even the garden needs everything imaginable done to it as you can see from the pictures. It had a pond so big 200 Koi lived in it once upon a time - we still have a Heron that pops by from time to time hoping for a meal! As we have a toddler we filled it in. Not pretty - yet. Eventually it will be part of a garden including raised bed, a storage facility/shed for my Husband and a grassy area for lots of play.
And this is the point - potential. It all has potential if you just look closely enough. I spend a lot of time planning our renovation campaign but spending time in the garden over the last few days has given me the opportunity to enjoy what we currently have with my daughter. It may not be beautiful, (it definitely isn't), but it is our space. Just like our wreck of a house, and one day it's true potential will emerge, just like the flowers in the garden. Hopefully by that time I will work out what exactly they are!
Hurrah, a blog post that shows "real" life! There is so much potential there, a wonderful blank canvas to plan the garden of your dreams. xx
ReplyDeleteHello :D Pleased to meet you. Funnily enough I've been thinking about potential all day to day, and about whether it needs to be realised to be satisfying, maybe an awareness of it is all we need to feel good?
ReplyDeleteLove the notion that blogging about the 'real' is a charitable service, you are so right. I really do not live in a pretty house, it's not much of a house at all, and some of those style blogs where everything is perfect have me alternating between envy, disbelief and a distaste for so much conspicuous consumption.
Anyhoo, I followed the link on your comment on knitsofacto and am glad I did. I'll be back :D
Annie, I often find that the way - I am thinking about something and then that day I see something to do with it on a blog I am reading, so weird! Actually, someone just today stepped into my garden and started talking about potential - I am seeing it as a good sign!
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Hi, I love your blog - just came across from your comment at Attic24 :-) I know what you mean about potential. We are living in a tiny workers cottage, literally walking around our furniture to get in and out of doors etc. And yet the little kitchen with its kitsch 50's bench tops makes me smile. Unfortunately we are only renting here, so I will never get to see the real potential this house could have! But I actually enjoy dreaming about what someone might do to this place one day. Thanks for the smile at the start of my day - I will be back!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for visiting, I shall definitely come and see your blog too.
Deleteso much potential in your yard! it will be fun to see it unfold.
ReplyDeletei'm guessing that those are lilies popping up.
Thanks Cassie, it is exciting. I think they are lillies too! I will take another picture when they appear.
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