Yesterday you had a peek at our sitting room window, from the outside. Come on in. We’ll go upstairs, into the kitchen. This is our view from the breakfast table. And it’s lilac time – almost. White, mauve and purple, all in bud, all on the cusp of bursting into flower for one glorious week. Our Top Time of year for breakfast beauty. Aren’t we lucky?
Becky: thank you. This month has been fun. I’m not a natural daily blogger, but it’s been a challenge I’ve enjoyed to find a daily response, almost entirely from photos taken specially for ‘Top Squares’, and I’ve ‘met’ bloggers I wouldn’t otherwise have come across. I can’t resist ending as I began: with a Top Sheep-and a lamb or two.
And I can’t resist popping in here to share your view! It’s gorgeous- such lovely old windows! Now I’d better get over to Becky’s for the link. See you later 🙂 🙂 Top work, Margaret!
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Thank you. We’ve both done quite well with this challenge, don’t you think?
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I can become obsessive about things but it’s brought a lot of people together and given them a focus this month, which I think is great 😘💕
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Yes, it really was perfect timing, wasn’t it?
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I see another trip ‘backwards’ coming from above post. Yes, you are lucky, but also, I am so glad to be away from my lilacs I had in France. They killed me every year with their perfume. Am SO allergic.
I also love your views!!!!
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Oooh no, poor you. Malcolm is a real hayfever sufferer, but lilac causes him no problems. Thank goodness then that they last little longer than a week.
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When young and innocent I planted a lilac right under our bedroom window
Our gardener friend had to take it out and away years later when I was near dead…. He did it for free because he could keep the tree. Will never forget that!
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That’s a dreadful tale. What an awful deprivation, you poor thing.
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ENFIN, somebody who shares my suffering 😉
And today, I’m being swamped with Lily of the Valley bouquets – after I ripped them out of my French garden for 12 years…. There’s no escape!
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YOU RIPPED THEM OUT??? Have you no shame? Or are you allergic to them too? Hope not, I love them.
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I’m so allergic that I had to wear a mask and very large sunglasses to be able to get them out of the ground…. and they do come again year after year. They are growing like weeds!
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That is a great view. I assume you have an upside-down house to take greater advantage of those splendid views.
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Sort of. It’s more than half a house, in that our accommodation is largely upstairs, with just one room and the entrance downstairs.
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What a great view! Lucky you are, indeed!
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I’ll see what I can show you when we talk today.
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Oooh, good! Can you do 3pm??
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Yup.
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Lovely, peaceful and inspiring view from your kitchen. I already love breakfast but looking out at the garden in bloom makes it even nicer!
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Oh, I’m glad to know another breakfast lover. It’s a peaceful time, perfect for thought-gathering and loin-girding. Not that there’s much need for that, just now.
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Lucky you, what a view!
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Yes indeed. Lucky us.
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Beautiful! The perfect way to finish your month of top squares – with a top view 🙂
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Thank you. Hoping to see you back in the blogosphere before too long … please.
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I love your view.
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We’re so lucky.
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Not so bad stopping indoors with views like these!
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Exactly. There are worse fates.
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Oh now please tell me you do get the wonderful lilac scent, if not wafting through the window you are able to cut it and bring a bunch inside, aren’t you?
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We do. And I don’t cut it, because it lasts better on the branch, which we can see – and just about smell – so well from here
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oh you are so very lucky. I am most envious.
Thank you for being such a great squarer, can’t wait to meet you in person (well almost) on Saturday xx
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Well, thanks to you, without whom …. and yes, it’ll be such fun to ‘meet’, though I’m not the world’s best Zoomer xx
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Not sure any of us are . . . . I mostly listen to the other two!!!
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Made me think of this.
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Ah, indeed. The old ones are the best eh? Thanks
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Yes definitely, a glorious view – and lilacs, too! Breakfast is my favourite time and meal as well, and with something to look at out of the window it’s perfect.
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And still perfect today – but jolly windy.
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Yes! Very windy. Richard and I went out for a little walk round the lanes (I’m not supposed to, but I can’t see the harm) and got caught in a heavy hail shower!
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Are you not? So you’re one of the really isolated. I’m glad you’re getting out anyway.
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Thank you. I thought I had got away with it but received my letter a fortnight ago. It has meant a lot of re-arranging of duties with regard to the care of my mother but I think we have it sorted now.
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Oh, bad luck. You could always query it if you don’t agree. I gather lots of mistakes have been made.
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I’m sure it’s not a mistake. I inject myself once a week with an immuno-suppressant drug and I know I am prone to catching viruses. I thought that as I have been reducing the dose over the past year they might have thought me less vulnerable.
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Ah, I see. Best to stay safe. But I think we both think that a gentle walk in the fresh air, without meeting anyone, will do far more good than harm. I promise not to tell!
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😀
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I really like the top squares of the window frames neatly dividing up the view. And the sheep and lambs are great too!
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Yes, it’s a handsome view, and sheep and lambs are always good value.
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I remember your view, such a delightful garden. The lilacs are nearly over here and I still haven’t planted one. Well done on daily blogging, I can just about manage a daily Instagram photograph.
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It was only for that one project. I’m not a natural daily poster. Lilac over eh? It really is short-lived, isn’t it?
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