Don't you just...

 ...love this little French wall cupboard we've just added! The fabric behind the chicken wire is just heavenly.

Knox Towers has...

...a new resident.

I can see she is going to be an excellent excuse for work avoidance. I've just spent 2 hours crawling around on the kitchen floor playing with her.  Don't be fooled by that look of innocence though - she's already attacked a pile of washing and tried to get into all the kitchen cupboards.

I thought you...

...might like to look at some pretty pictures.

Firstly, the pot of Lily of the Valley I have on my patio.

Secondly, a bunch of sweetly scented lilac plundered from the huge tree behind my antique dealer friend Andrew's workshop. I do it every year. I might as well; when I turned up this morning he greeted me cheerfully with "Have you come for the lavender?" Bless 'im.

I can't tell...

...you how much I love this salon sofa.

In another life I would perch daintily on it in the Morning Room and sip tea from a bone china cup (floral of course). Or I might recline on it in lady-like manner, with the back of my hand to my forehead, when things got too much and ask to be brought my smelling salts.

I absolutely love...

...this advert.

Anyone else wish...

...it would stop flipping RAINING! Sorry to shout.
Here's a picture of the apple blossom on our kitchen table to cheer us.
 

Period Living magazine...

...have done a feature on Knox Towers.

I'd like to say that it's always that tidy, but...