a husband, a camera, a boy & fresh seafood...

<b>this is what happens when you give your husband the camera and your son loves seafood...</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><b>you end up totally surprised with the results!</b><br /><b><br /></b><br />sent out to capture the evening with my camera-<b> </b>i figured <b>he</b> just needed time alone with my camera to<br /><br />really <b>bond</b> with it...<br /><br />thus in time, taking some photos that may have <b>me- the mama of the household</b> feature in them...<br /><br />just sometimes...you know for the kids...so they know i was there...<br /><br /><b>look at the results gals...</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><b>sunset taken by husband on big learning curve left on own...</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><b>he did G.O.O.D...</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGXJTeowqrcaFEcN1ZIyBTJqkwWgPXgkQ3SLP0TqYgcxthR5apP5D6s62eMWU5vIyGYuwQCcu-Dgks_SCOQP-EN0eBXo04wFZdZWkQuWxssq_-kQbBTF1yrJ556sSX2PuMMM9a0CURCWA-/s1600/cockles3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGXJTeowqrcaFEcN1ZIyBTJqkwWgPXgkQ3SLP0TqYgcxthR5apP5D6s62eMWU5vIyGYuwQCcu-Dgks_SCOQP-EN0eBXo04wFZdZWkQuWxssq_-kQbBTF1yrJ556sSX2PuMMM9a0CURCWA-/s640/cockles3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>i think he was <strike>totally</strike> a little chuffed with the results too...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">i even think he may go back for more...on his own for now....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">one day he may even get me in one of his photos ;)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">so...the hubsters first photographic effort on <strike>his</strike> my blog...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">i'm happy to share the space for these...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>now...back to the *son loving seafood* part...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">we have a beautiful estuary that runs the length of our Village Green...it runs from a larger river & </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">brings with it endless perfect delicious cockles...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">we have a son who adores seafood...especially shell fish...& perfect delicious cockles...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">so here he is...filling his pockets, a block from our big old country house...sand & cockles- bless him...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzUMabfk2mKKsXZik_IYz0sRKQ0s-C-0cHYsbv2ogLPhZkf2W-ZTw_049HxfAtSq_ICapvKfbzBYWWwmtNrZ7uZQvMk0VfLibZig7VdsZDZ35qUtOGrKhb7bm_8dT4TBBxDJ0e8xa3vb2t/s1600/cockles2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzUMabfk2mKKsXZik_IYz0sRKQ0s-C-0cHYsbv2ogLPhZkf2W-ZTw_049HxfAtSq_ICapvKfbzBYWWwmtNrZ7uZQvMk0VfLibZig7VdsZDZ35qUtOGrKhb7bm_8dT4TBBxDJ0e8xa3vb2t/s640/cockles2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>if you are a seafood lover like we are...you can imagine collecting your own only adds to the </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>experience...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">for a child that will not eat sausages & spuds- an english fave- he amazes us with seafood...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX41t7wEu5F3qAeMT4R8o_qadrbJClConiho_kokAGpiq6Yq1R1f4kUfvJnpDGHDnHJXdsVuVGjRcWgtjH8bjeJoeL1V5yda07ViYBAz2viQQmlKO2Gr5Lm4hcyH9VO0gaMzmpIndO4aRU/s1600/cockles4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX41t7wEu5F3qAeMT4R8o_qadrbJClConiho_kokAGpiq6Yq1R1f4kUfvJnpDGHDnHJXdsVuVGjRcWgtjH8bjeJoeL1V5yda07ViYBAz2viQQmlKO2Gr5Lm4hcyH9VO0gaMzmpIndO4aRU/s640/cockles4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>collecting cockles is wonderful for kids...collecting *food* straight from nature's garden...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">he scooted home laden down & we googled a few recipes together...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">throwing them in a colander...washing of the sea water...<b>counting our haul</b>...all memories...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigQvm-gyEnGUeIhb4xycJrtZ781fGeHFMbD4WO3BVEwpdxBty1-mhbGhpdCILI3NYH2fIXpQtQVXip1w5-46PNzKqXWGQk0WJN8-MEeGpLCEFtKyzfgUL5a6EKoNFMMMULmv3qLtyD8jX4/s1600/cockles5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigQvm-gyEnGUeIhb4xycJrtZ781fGeHFMbD4WO3BVEwpdxBty1-mhbGhpdCILI3NYH2fIXpQtQVXip1w5-46PNzKqXWGQk0WJN8-MEeGpLCEFtKyzfgUL5a6EKoNFMMMULmv3qLtyD8jX4/s640/cockles5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>for a simple delicious simple-let-the-flavours-speak-for-themselves-go-to-recipe see <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_2125595_cook-cockles.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">{here}</span></a>...</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIAr-7POv6wow35J2nO8Ue3yrMJPMIJB2NEXyZ_uMSwUYPmqOw2BhP66GE4elgWV39p9DX_eSp-1IhC-pen9Vsv7k-w36gmLn9FiaTBlKYN8fgk8d_ZX3kwSGX3VhvEalnbl_MsaWh-Qm5/s1600/cockles6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIAr-7POv6wow35J2nO8Ue3yrMJPMIJB2NEXyZ_uMSwUYPmqOw2BhP66GE4elgWV39p9DX_eSp-1IhC-pen9Vsv7k-w36gmLn9FiaTBlKYN8fgk8d_ZX3kwSGX3VhvEalnbl_MsaWh-Qm5/s640/cockles6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhtUT3tmikD2wqPaL_RqknJIDrnFmLuHWV0z6fwHvvC84gD2j3u4NTuvQB-mXVLtFQemSewWW0qn1_ifPr9svS-RjFKWfur2H-uGJK-jhOurVFYAD_QfJYFMkIQYCsqmuWYn9U-lfqvS8/s1600/cockles7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhtUT3tmikD2wqPaL_RqknJIDrnFmLuHWV0z6fwHvvC84gD2j3u4NTuvQB-mXVLtFQemSewWW0qn1_ifPr9svS-RjFKWfur2H-uGJK-jhOurVFYAD_QfJYFMkIQYCsqmuWYn9U-lfqvS8/s640/cockles7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>eat them like Sol....maldon sea salt...fresh bread...straight off a board on the kitchen bench...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">10 year old heaven...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">a lovely end to a sunday afternoon...a sunset & fresh seafood...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK8i_Oc3I7GfCtkbpB_WrP_665UEKVux8bJkuG0JixhzvETMHqut_8LQ3Lii2EH0baMfHf8t1qJXMSiBTft08_Rpe5XSEUfENW7Uk1ElIcnJbYaU_YUuJIXj82-P_emMUUXbk9rQJFwy0f/s1600/cockles8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK8i_Oc3I7GfCtkbpB_WrP_665UEKVux8bJkuG0JixhzvETMHqut_8LQ3Lii2EH0baMfHf8t1qJXMSiBTft08_Rpe5XSEUfENW7Uk1ElIcnJbYaU_YUuJIXj82-P_emMUUXbk9rQJFwy0f/s640/cockles8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><br /></b><br /><b>so...the hubster caught a perfect sunset...on his own...in focus...great foreground...depth...colour</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><b>& we got a gorgeous salty local snack outa the experience...</b><br /><b><br /></b><br />yep...he's going back...<br /><br />one day you may even see me just there...wandering along the shore...in my Hunter's...bucket in hand...<br /><br />& he may even get all of me in the picture :)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuNgFoaarZuzO8eQxd6EeQZooWnALWz5uHow0H9pTcySzkGU-LXyp-koqHodM4L7HOq_przw8hn4UZxmKlkjvVQO8f6vghLObAtNk0Wkn0SWeSnit5fj8tHqhQCNYsEYhIgGrSCMYf-pyb/s1600/cockles1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuNgFoaarZuzO8eQxd6EeQZooWnALWz5uHow0H9pTcySzkGU-LXyp-koqHodM4L7HOq_przw8hn4UZxmKlkjvVQO8f6vghLObAtNk0Wkn0SWeSnit5fj8tHqhQCNYsEYhIgGrSCMYf-pyb/s640/cockles1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">happy monday gals</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">i have seafood recipes to google</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">&</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">photo challenges to come up with </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">enjoy!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">xxx</span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">~~~</span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span></b><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">today i am linking up with a wonderful writer <a href="http://www.privetandholly.com/2011/11/monday-moments-spinning-it-out.html">{here}</a></span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">celebrating monday's together</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span></b></div><b><br /></b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><b><br /></b>

a husband, a camera, a boy & fresh seafood...

this is what happens when you give your husband the camera and your son loves seafood... you end up totally surprised with the results! sent...

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a life made lovely in an english vege garden...

<b>hello sweet bloggy friends...</b><br />i'm sitting in the kiddos playroom...looking out the big bay windows at our little garden allotment...<br />it's a new thing for us...growing our own vege...<br />&<br />believe me, if i can do it, anyone can...<br />not that i don't have a green thumb- i just had a mental block thing happening...<br />it's taken me three years of living in the english countryside to start thinking like an english gal...<br />not a beach-reared...do-not-water-anything-with-the hose-unless-it-is-after-5pm-&-a-monday-or-a-friday-kinda-aussie-gardening-gal...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWa9L3qCG2guoI2jVrISSUDcNmhh1Mr4P0TMC14GZGi6ZmM2XBRCkpaXbMRnVQpfa3mlzXdHi0ik34V30mfB5MyD2PkBWCCZczheD78rl-DXHbWu6pkuLa4Gmm9mosXi4KaQxGGt7bxUj9/s1600/herbs1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWa9L3qCG2guoI2jVrISSUDcNmhh1Mr4P0TMC14GZGi6ZmM2XBRCkpaXbMRnVQpfa3mlzXdHi0ik34V30mfB5MyD2PkBWCCZczheD78rl-DXHbWu6pkuLa4Gmm9mosXi4KaQxGGt7bxUj9/s640/herbs1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b>you see...in Australia water restrictions are pretty normal...</b><br />well...they were three years ago when we made the big move north of the globe...<br />i was able to water my garden two afternoons a  week, & only after 5pm...<br />car washing on the drive- was a seriously big no-no...<br />kiddos thrown under a sprinkler for the afternoon- even bigger!<br />memories that i had made growing up were not being made for our kids!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTA6lEhPP0Ks7rs4rOALo3UIbyRRXYxCSV02YANUSPXb0_RVWBdQ2xfq1EB3bRKYK7yAG20R7hjOTHsaoiVbsNakCS1k1mpNGqEf1ZGp1hfShrbSYvxcuEguxozczOnhPbr1whRX3jdXLe/s1600/herbs3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTA6lEhPP0Ks7rs4rOALo3UIbyRRXYxCSV02YANUSPXb0_RVWBdQ2xfq1EB3bRKYK7yAG20R7hjOTHsaoiVbsNakCS1k1mpNGqEf1ZGp1hfShrbSYvxcuEguxozczOnhPbr1whRX3jdXLe/s640/herbs3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b>so...now we find ourselves in the land of water...</b><br /><b>endless water where kiddos are free to<i> live</i> under a running-non-stop-sprinkling-system...</b><br />but for our aussie beach-reared kids this luxury is missing one element-constant <s>hot</s> warm weather!<br />this does all work for an english vege garden though, i now know...<br />it's the summer rain...sun...rain...sun thing that get's everything up & thriving...<br /><i>three years folks & at long last i have cottoned on to why my BB (british bestie) has the coolest home vege garden i've ever seen!</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-vf8muo_VL4Ogrn3IvlZrxA_9_HumvMYjQxD2i7osBJCAkBBS2LJgj49owbT7lJ9cvdbbH0935qwmHS_GAG77zYmcmsQ_Hkqc8IXtzhhyphenhyphenmskf1tLoZOvc36FSXNU-IMErwtcMnvtecrC/s1600/herbs2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-vf8muo_VL4Ogrn3IvlZrxA_9_HumvMYjQxD2i7osBJCAkBBS2LJgj49owbT7lJ9cvdbbH0935qwmHS_GAG77zYmcmsQ_Hkqc8IXtzhhyphenhyphenmskf1tLoZOvc36FSXNU-IMErwtcMnvtecrC/s640/herbs2.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><i><br /></i><br /><b>so...i now find myself sitting, tea in hand, watching over our garden of vege smiling to my self...</b><br />audrey has discovered that not all green food is *disgusting*...<br />(yes i have to sadly admit that our littlest lovely has used this word many-a-time when faced with a <s>plate</s> piece of greenery on her plate!)<br />she scored a pretty cute little metal watering can & a tin bucket to go vege & lettuce picking & it's working!<br />she gathers herbs for every meal...& has pulled her elder sister & brother up on the herb names & what *mummy actually asked for*!<br /><i>should have pulled my finger out a few years ago...& we'd have had years of success at the dinner table with her greens...</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVGxUf4g46ZkNsr3jKikqL3sQ_P1XYo7RJI3_9YsZv51oy0aqYHkG7-N38xgwSlQ2CBpLHxQ5srEb8HEfkblZ1HYIirsil5Qbj_a0M8fFv1BbKVPySVTk2L0pq1WjuP1pDJQjVab5Nkp65/s1600/herbs4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVGxUf4g46ZkNsr3jKikqL3sQ_P1XYo7RJI3_9YsZv51oy0aqYHkG7-N38xgwSlQ2CBpLHxQ5srEb8HEfkblZ1HYIirsil5Qbj_a0M8fFv1BbKVPySVTk2L0pq1WjuP1pDJQjVab5Nkp65/s640/herbs4.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><i><br /></i><br /><i><b>so...i'm smiling big that we have got there in the end...</b></i><br />we've had other big moments over the last three years...<br />maybe i appretiate this little allotment in our front garden a little more as the journey's been longer...<br />the gardening journey...<br />the one that can involve lots of lovely water...<br />a garden sprinkler & laughing kids...<br />&<br />french watering cans of love...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWa9L3qCG2guoI2jVrISSUDcNmhh1Mr4P0TMC14GZGi6ZmM2XBRCkpaXbMRnVQpfa3mlzXdHi0ik34V30mfB5MyD2PkBWCCZczheD78rl-DXHbWu6pkuLa4Gmm9mosXi4KaQxGGt7bxUj9/s1600/herbs1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWa9L3qCG2guoI2jVrISSUDcNmhh1Mr4P0TMC14GZGi6ZmM2XBRCkpaXbMRnVQpfa3mlzXdHi0ik34V30mfB5MyD2PkBWCCZczheD78rl-DXHbWu6pkuLa4Gmm9mosXi4KaQxGGt7bxUj9/s640/herbs1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">a life made lovely monday</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">a thriving vege garden in the english countryside</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">watered endlessly by aussie beach-reared kiddos</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">&</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">eaten by a very fussy 6 year old cutie</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">that's gotta be good for the soul</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">xox</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;">{head over here to check out some other lives made lovely}</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><center><a href="http://www.lifemadelovely-blog.com/search/label/life%20made%20lovely%20mondays"><img border="0" src="http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv65/hamiltonfive/lifemadelovelybutton.png" /></a></center><center><br /></center><center><br /></center><center><br /></center><center><br /></center>

a life made lovely in an english vege garden...

hello sweet bloggy friends... i'm sitting in the kiddos playroom...looking out the big bay windows at our little garden allotment... it...

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a virtual coffee in france....

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>g'day....</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>i know this is a coffee catchup...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">but the sun is out & i'm wishing we were in a little french town i looove...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">not for coffee...but for the afternoon...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">lunching on mussels...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">sharing a bottle of french wine...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">legs in the sun...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">sandals kicked to one side...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>want to join me?</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>we can do coffee's later as we head towards the beach...</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin0A5w-fE1W66hIRseNqU4uViTzBfCt69G8wkr-eZG9_ivOojFZmk9MmBDBWbKWe3uVthWjypBKkBbfAOvi-4biuhfDQL-DYScM7MJtcbJ24xUzv0iE3dPkoLelXZM4lLDJBvfbfb30Zd_/s1600/castle6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin0A5w-fE1W66hIRseNqU4uViTzBfCt69G8wkr-eZG9_ivOojFZmk9MmBDBWbKWe3uVthWjypBKkBbfAOvi-4biuhfDQL-DYScM7MJtcbJ24xUzv0iE3dPkoLelXZM4lLDJBvfbfb30Zd_/s640/castle6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b>so...it's virtual french dining in a humble seaside cafe today...</b><br /><b>sounds like heaven non!</b><br />drink up...slurp up that mussel broth & tell me how your week's been?<br />holidays at your end?<br />reading any great summer books?<br />i'm feeling a little more myself this week...<br />having the kiddos home constantly on the go is helping no doubt...<br />still...there are moments when i think i'd feel so much better just losing myself for a while in a french village....<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96vBD9q8tHsqlZHBSPQZyCGDUMgX3QyrStGRDPkGU1oC9JRH2bCNiX9UnY-tGLkQOvXxrTyJ31Ap3FjiWxvB7_B-KP5f1mzSmWPL3Ue9idgPPmop83-D_ir-a8I1hyphenhyphenA5cSQJ8NCpB_Wnr/s1600/tag1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96vBD9q8tHsqlZHBSPQZyCGDUMgX3QyrStGRDPkGU1oC9JRH2bCNiX9UnY-tGLkQOvXxrTyJ31Ap3FjiWxvB7_B-KP5f1mzSmWPL3Ue9idgPPmop83-D_ir-a8I1hyphenhyphenA5cSQJ8NCpB_Wnr/s640/tag1.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><b>if we were really having a lunch together...speaking <s>broken school book</s> french...</b><br />i'd be wearing my new summer sandals...<br />they make me feel all from another time...<br />they make me want to sit ankles in the sun...pouring wine with friends...<br />funny how shoes bought in england on an overcast, muggy summers day can transport me to another climate...another place where we can just sit & ponder our day together...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMllzszJKbuyG8EvJXIZVwAIqDiLK2t2nleiHJ60ksT4yW8K7mYcMcvT-r0kR8d-BndaQauXtKg5ERsnK7LgyoP86WjLrlgMoMXI_aJnSzldAgBr43vdkHoNkZs1LeUHuGVZz_mp_XuM8/s1600/shoes1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMllzszJKbuyG8EvJXIZVwAIqDiLK2t2nleiHJ60ksT4yW8K7mYcMcvT-r0kR8d-BndaQauXtKg5ERsnK7LgyoP86WjLrlgMoMXI_aJnSzldAgBr43vdkHoNkZs1LeUHuGVZz_mp_XuM8/s400/shoes1.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><b>and then after we've had that gorgeous french pot of seafood, finished our vino & gathered the kids...</b><br />we'll be lovely *yes*mums...*oui oui mama's*...& buy the gang an icecream & head down to the beach with them all in tow...<br />happy days...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2JH6pK5N4MQqAmi3G4Zh1GJCSfsEW0-uou1Jfxvq5PZ9KSEPx9uUyahyc-5q92dM65kIIp9FVZwQv-kNzJBU_TT4_3U1Jl6IO0rqYRtF-WliC-th-M5GWLn1_3RvhmupsHB8FQHn9yWIR/s1600/france.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2JH6pK5N4MQqAmi3G4Zh1GJCSfsEW0-uou1Jfxvq5PZ9KSEPx9uUyahyc-5q92dM65kIIp9FVZwQv-kNzJBU_TT4_3U1Jl6IO0rqYRtF-WliC-th-M5GWLn1_3RvhmupsHB8FQHn9yWIR/s640/france.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>what do you think?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>let's take our virtual coffee's to a french beach together...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">let's just hang out & put our faces in the sun...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">plan our brocante hop for the afternoon...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">organise how we fill my people mover with french chippy chairs that the husbands will thank us for...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">a bbq always tastes better when sitting on chippy french garden chairs- <i>i promise!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwJ2XRMD1qgvI1hsjp6U8N40kZJAeNKHv_jBclnyBbYVv7JwQ6NTv0fX1qD8q8_YOdXcbkxQH826-PKPa0A1kR4_yGzpRnCHdwdeHF1NOmCO0lOFBGq-VZjYlDHC7VlAqSuV1Vmryuu0dP/s1600/fr+coffee1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwJ2XRMD1qgvI1hsjp6U8N40kZJAeNKHv_jBclnyBbYVv7JwQ6NTv0fX1qD8q8_YOdXcbkxQH826-PKPa0A1kR4_yGzpRnCHdwdeHF1NOmCO0lOFBGq-VZjYlDHC7VlAqSuV1Vmryuu0dP/s640/fr+coffee1.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>and then we could head out for a little french culture...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>you know give the kids something to tell their teachers about ;)....</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">an old monastry...in a village...near the seaside in france...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">sounds like heaven...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">i'll collect you after i sort out the car...the kids...the washing...the cat...the husband...& the villa....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwcERvpOR1ghGNmZpgM2oRNcRrQWWzdXFJgHSpvpmGTZrGLHapLU4ynFZxsNlz568wenRgdUPfRywv9xPdXb7wh1e3fsi7ptSdNIwl77EHzlESs2rM_dE3lg8ay7SIF7cVZl38uGA7GrEB/s1600/tpot8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwcERvpOR1ghGNmZpgM2oRNcRrQWWzdXFJgHSpvpmGTZrGLHapLU4ynFZxsNlz568wenRgdUPfRywv9xPdXb7wh1e3fsi7ptSdNIwl77EHzlESs2rM_dE3lg8ay7SIF7cVZl38uGA7GrEB/s640/tpot8.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">happy days people...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">very happy french chippy, legs-in-the-sun kinda day....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">what time will i swing past for you....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">xox</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">~~~</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">check out some more nattering over coffees at amy's <a href="http://amyluckynumber13.blogspot.com/2011/08/virtual-coffee.html">*here*</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>

a virtual coffee in france....

g'day.... i know this is a coffee catchup... but the sun is out & i'm wishing we were in a little french town i looove... not fo...

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