Our House

We've been here just under 8 weeks, and in this house for about six of them. It's home now - still a bit bare in places and some quite nasty mismatching going on in others, but we're definitely 'home'. So here, have a little mooch around the more finished bits..... First up, Eve's bedroom:




If you look closely, you can see all the cards and letters from her friends in the UK, in pride of place on the top of her bookshelf.


Next up, the play room:




And I knew we were really at home when we put all of our treasures on the season table. The seasons are obviously very different here - the summer monsoons are just giving way to the bright, Autumn sun and a really good growing season - all the flowers are starting o bloom, and the gardener is cutting back the bamboo hedges around our house and planting smaller, flowering plants the way we tend to do the same in the Spring. So, um - a mixture of Summer blooms and Autumn veggies (yes pumpkins and squashes etc here) for the season table:




And finally, the story corner, in the sitting room. This could also be (more accurately) described as the Armory. Yes, occasionally (if we're lucky, once a day) they sit in it, blissed out, reading each other stories. Yes, they honestly do.... I love it when it all goes quiet, and I run in from the kitchen / loo / upstairs, anticipating some form of silent, but extreme, devastation, at which they so excel.....and find that Noah is reading 'Maisey Goes Camping' to Thom, or all three are sitting there, silent and separate, each absorbed in a book.....

But, much, much more often the cushions are being used as weapons of some kind...

Or to make a den at the bottom of the stairs...

And even to make a den on the shelf under the coffee table. Experimentally....

Anyway, here's the showroom shot. The mayhem ones will follow, I'm sure.



Have a fab weekend, everyone, xx.