warning pic overload!!...but please humour me, these are the first blooms I have been able to harvest from my own humble patch in an age. yes they are just gerberas and lavender leaves but to me they are fit to decorate the royal wedding. I was up in these girls faces like nobodies business.
a few artsy fartsy ones....for arts sake of course!
im pleased I picked them when I did as we had a top of 35 here yesterday and a cracker of a storm came rolling in ( not that I knew cause I was at the pictures, seeing the impossible - which was great by the way, not usually a naomi fan, always thought she was drab, shes now fab)
anyhoo the storm did a little number on the yard, nothing major like Suse had. you know just enough to mess it up (and with my head!)
the day ended with me gazing at a black stormy sky with a rainbow...ahhh don't you just love a happy ending.
to keep it real....Frankie came home with nits! ( any tips?)
to keep it real....Frankie came home with nits! ( any tips?)
Ah, gorgeous! And I love the vintage books too :-) I saw the trailer of The Impossible at the gym (of all places) and almost lost my shit, had to gulp back tears. Might be a watch at home one for me, I'm one of those ugly criers!! Bxx
ReplyDeleteAre those asters...zinnias? Either way, they're beautiful. I'll never forget the first time my daughter came home with head lice. I totally freaked out and called the pediatrician for a prescription. He told me over-the-counter stuff would work just as well, but I wouldn't hear of it. I'll never forget combing the nits out of her thick, waist-length hair with that tiny, tiny comb. Hours and hours of work, I tell you! I had always thought only kids with dirty hair got lice, but I've since learned that clean hair is easier for them to hold onto. We had an outbreak of lice at a high school where I taught, and we had to check every head in the place. Not one of the most enjoyable days of my teaching career, I can tell you.
ReplyDeleteThe flowers are beautiful!!! You should be so proud that they've come from your own garden.
ReplyDeleteAren't they pretty. all the shades of pink.
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Beautiful flowers! On the nits front, (I scratch at the mention of them), shampoo with tea tree oil in is suposed to be a good detterant. Im in the UK and we have a brand of expensive nit combs that actualy work! They have a rounded end on the spikes, (I cant think of the correct name), and grooves up them as well, which encourages eggs up and out. Good luck, there is nothing worse! x
ReplyDeleteYou crack me up. Firstly I love those flowers, congrats on growing those, they look amazing in front of your beautiful books. And secondly, I'm not your go to girl for nits. Our little household has had just the one outbreak so far (touch wood), and I just remember washing EVERY single bit of bed linen, and tonnes of fine tooth combing. Good luck! Poor little Frankie. Poor you! xx
ReplyDeleteWhat great pics, you must have a proper camera!
ReplyDeleteNits! ....noice!
ReplyDeleteChemist will sort you out.....love the flowers and your artsy pics xx
My Grannie used to grow Roses and Gerberas.
ReplyDeleteONLY - roses and gerberas - I dunno why.
I'm too much of a sook to watch that movie - I'd be traumatized for weeks!
it gave me nightmares...seriously. I def wouldn't recommend to anyone with any water/ocean phobias. was great movie though!x
DeleteLove these old fashioned gerberas.
ReplyDeleteI remember nits! There is some special shampoo and I can remember nit combing for weeks, checking for the little blighters! x
Love those flamboyant Gerbies, Al, they are such show-offs. As soon as your back is turned, I reckon they'll jump out of the vase and do the can-can on your mantelpiece, just like wheelchair-bound Andy from 'Little Britain'!
ReplyDeleteNot having envy for you with the "nitty-scritches" in da house, poor little Frankie. Your local chemist is your man/woman, as is your washing machine and a sunny day. A stiff drink should help you - not Frankie - cope with the paranoia nits bring into the household. I remember it helped me way back when!
I'm also high on the sook scale for that movie. I'm finding 'Top of the Lake' disturbing enough at the moment.
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LOVE! so beautiful & I love artsy fartsy stuff! we all need inspiration like that! xo
ReplyDeleteconditioner and combing every other night for at least a fortnight! ok enough about the nits...gorgeous flowers, pink gerberas were my wedding flowers. I adore pic no.3 and 8! i wanna go buy vintage books now....stealiong your idea in exchange for the tin lid! xxxxx
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable colour! Wow!!! Gorgeous xx
ReplyDeleteAlison, just letting you know I'm currently hosting a new Fitskin giveaway, open to Australian residents only and I hope you will enter! http://www.underlockandkeyblog.com/2013/03/fitskin-naturally-review-and-giveaway.htm
ReplyDeleteYou grew these, awesome. I got a book about growing flowers for my birthday this week, I must get organised to get growing. Nitty gritty is the wonder nit comb's name and I rub a little Moroccan oil through my daughter's hair to prevent them coming back. It's worked so far. good luck, katie x
ReplyDeletesomeone else told me about Moroccan oil...im gonna give it a go....plus tea tree. I cant take credit really for growing the gerberas....they just keep appearing in our garden thanks to the previous owners! so low maintenance....even I cant kill them! x
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