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@TheCountryReader

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In which I am relieved that we built the fishing hut on a raised platform — and we expect to see Pooh and Piglet floating past in an upturned umbrella any time now, or rat an mole messing about in boats.
On a not unrelated note I will definitely be holding a literary lunch on with a river theme in the summer. I am just finalising the dates. Let’s hope it will be a tad drier by then!
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My girl’s new room
#thankheavenforlittlegirls

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So some serious redecorating is taking place at Pittleworth at the moment. The reason there is no literary lunch this month is because Husband and I decided we really had to make one big push and get the house finished (I believe the top brass said something similar in 1916). The next phase has been to move the twins out of their old room, which they were rapidly outgrowing, and into their own interconnecting rooms in the attic. These used to be our bedroom and sitting room when Husband and I shared the house with my mother, so it really feels like another phase of life to change these rooms so completely, with the help of @eb_naturalpaint paints. I am not usually one for the ice blue/ candy pink relentlessly sold as appropriate for boys and girls. But the Edward Bulmer nursery range contained a soft green-blue that doesn’t leach the warmth out of a room the way some blues can and the pink was a softer, richer shade with a touch of yellow in it (ok you can see why I didn’t end up in PR, can’t you?) but it is the absolute opposite of the barbie-through-the-blender pink that girls are supposed to love and is assisting with my current conversion towards pink. In short, I love them both: more importantly, so do the children. So the great move has happened. I’ve suspected for a while that our girl was afraid of the dark but could not leave the light on because her brother used this as an excuse to practicing cot vaulting. Meanwhile he needs more sleep than she does.
So far the move seems to be working: both were delighted with their rooms and sleeping better. And then today at nap time, both of them worked out how to get in and out of their cots. Oh Dear ...
#toddlertwins #twinmummy #twinmumlife #childrensbedroom #childrensbedrooms #childrensbedroomdecor #pinkforagirl #blueforaboy #nurserydecoration #oldhousenewhome #oldhousenewlife #countryhouses #countryhousestyle #hampshirehouse #hampshirelife #englishcountryhouse #countryhouseinteriors #countryhousedecor #oldfashionedinterior #thetigerwhocametotea #childrensnursery #childrengrowingup #growingupsofast❤️ #houserenovations #redecorate #intheattictoo #nextstage #myhomeinjanuary #myhomestyle #myhomedecor

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So, almost exactly two years ago, and just after we had taken on Pittleworth, two of the big hornbeam trees next to the house came down: RIGHT next to the house (see second photo). Then we had to cut down a big ash tree due to ash die-back disease (thanks to imported arboreal diseases🤬). On the up side, this has opened up views of the house that we never had before and (in a year or two) I have visions of sloping lawns filled with spring time bulbs: Instagram will be the first to know if this actually pans out😁. Anyone planning on coming to any literary lunches will be glad to know that the stall-inducing potholes at the beginning of the drive have now been filled in; I have even been known to bowl round the corner without changing gear: not advisable under the previous circumstances!
The way things are going by the time of the first lunch, February 28th, there might even be a few daffodils out ... Do see the link in the bio if you are interested.
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‘It was the sort of house you never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected places’.
If I really had to pick a favourite book then I suppose that The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe would be it but it wasn’t until I joined the Narnia Book Club that I realised that, down in my subconscious, the (nameless) country house of the old professor is one of my favourite country houses in literature.
Given my interest in the role of the country house in books, I cannot help but be intrigued by Lewis’s decision to site his magic wardrobe in an old country house. I love the Chinese box effect of the children, exploring the house for the first time, moving from memorable room to memorable room: remember the ‘room all hung with green with a harp in one corner’? The sense that these children are whisked from world to world, from bomb-threatened London to the rambling country house to the snowy pine wood lit by a lantern ...
The house really strikes me and what seems to me all the more impressive, is that Lewis does this in barely five pages. Does anyone else find the house intriguing?
#thelionthewitchandthewardrobe #myfavouritebook #narnian #oldcountryhouse #englishcountryhouse #englishcountryhouses #imaginaryplaces #cslewisbooks #oldhouselove #oldhousetalk #oldhousecharm #oldhousecharme #imaginaryworld #imaginaryworlds #childhoodfavourite #favouritebookasachild #houseoffiction #bookstagramuk #bookchat #booknerd #booknerds #letstalkbooks #professordigorykirke #placeidlovetovisit #placeidlovetolive #literarymemes #literarylove #childrensclassics #childrensbookstagram #bestkidsbooks

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