Here is Button wearing her grumpy face because I am being tardy in getting up and delivering breakfast. She has already stomped around the room meowing with little effect. She's now in the huffing stage. And yes this is the view from my bedroom. How lucky am I?!
Meanwhile, in the garden during some digging of a new bed I came across this treasure!
I've found various broken glass bits over the years but this is the first intact bottle. It's so pretty! I have a bucket load of china, still caked in dried mud in the shed. I must liberate it this summer and post some pictures. In the "old" days before there were regular refuse collections by the local council, every house would have had a "midden" where they would have thrown their old rubbish. Hence lots of broken china in the garden. There is also a story connected with the house that one of the Sutherland wives had red hair and a temper to go with it, during a row she would throw the pots and plates across the room. Then the next day she'd have to get on her coat and scarf and head to the town to buy some more. I love that story - not least because I too have read hair. Tee hee!
And I'll finish off with another sunset....
What a beautiful sunset! I found your blog via the Scottish round-up and I had to click because of the photo as it looks very much like it could be a view from my own small island.... Shetland! I've only been to Orkney twice, briefly, but I do want to return for a proper holiday some time. You have a new follower. :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous view. Imagine waking up to that every morning! My Lucky is also very impatient for breakfast at unsociable hours. Phoebe would sleep until lunchtime if left to herself. I'm somewhere between the two.
ReplyDeleteI've seen bits of china made into a mosaic -- either glued to wood and grouted like tile to make a table top or set in cement for a stepping stone or bit of decoration.
ReplyDeleteLove the view out your bedroom window !
ReplyDeleteThere are people now who are studying OUR garbage. I'd rather rummage around in an older midden ... lots of interesting stuff to be found.
so i hope you find more treasures ... :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous bottle! We too keep funding bits of china and glass around our Welsh farmhouse and I rather like the idea of a frustrated Welsh wifie relieving her feelings with a well-aimed throw. ;-)
ReplyDeleteJames and I enjoyed reading about grumpy Buttons and the treasure! We too often find bits of glass and old china in the bluebell woods, which were clearly the castle's midden at least until well into the 19th Century.
ReplyDeleteI love that bit of pinkish red spongeware you've unearthed. The bottle looks like an ink bottle, perhaps? I like to put old bottles in the windows to catch the light. As for china, I did once stick a load of broken bits around the wooden frame of a cheap mirror. It looks really good and it was very therapeutic work, as I had to smash some of the larger bits down to size: a cathartic afternoon wielding a hammer! :)
Love the view! And really enjoy reading your blog. :-) Michelle.
ReplyDeleteLove the view, and really enjoy your blog too. :-)
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