Bridges and Blooms

Back from an amazing holiday! Really, the Balkans are something else.

I think my favourite place Was this - Mostar. The bridge is absolutely mind-boggling. Something in your mind tells you that it can't possibly stand, can't possibly have held up to people crossing it for almost five hundred years, but it did, until it was shelled 63 times in the war and finally fell in 1993. There are still many stark reminders like this around the city:

Yet, in 2004, the Old Bridge was rebuilt with the stones which had fallen into the river below and is as beautiful as ever!

People are again jumping off every day :)

 

 

The first job on our return was to finish Amelia's wall mural!

 

She loves it!

Today, I've been packaging orders and gently getting back into a normal routine during Amelia's first day back in school (and at juniors now!).

A nice cup of tea

Checking up on the garden :)

Huuuuge sunflower!

Yum!

Multicoloured chillies!

I brought some garden inside, seeing as the Japanese Anenome is flourishing so well.

 

I'm going to take Amelia out for a little walk after school - see if we can find some cob nuts!

 

Hope you're also having a lovely late summer.

xxx