For our English Rose!

I thought that you would like to see our garden in June especially as when you were here in January it was covered in snow !

Our beautiful climbing rose which is a David Austin rose called "Gertrude Jekyll"
is in full bloom and the best it has ever been. Do you recognise your cookery basket from about 18 years ago which I unearthed from the loft recently- it looks much better filled with flowers, doesn't it!

The goldfinch are still using the bird feeder and now I keep finding thistle seedlings
underneath it... and the pansies are the ones that I planted just before you arrived last November so the garden would have a bit of colour but we had the snow instead which was much more fun... and so far the slugs and snails haven't done too much damage to our hostas...

I made them myself!!

I bought these fabrics from one of the many wonderful fabric shops in the Montemartre district of Paris ...

The skirt was made from NewLook pattern 6565 and the dress from NewLook pattern 6778 ...

the dress was quite difficult to get a good fit around the neckline but the skirt was really easy and I might make another one ... Stella McCartney should be really worried!!!!!