Coffee Shock!!!!

Hello all - now I have so many photos to upload that I really can't be bothered.

Good start Em . . . sorry.

And coffee seems to be having the reverse effect on me. I'm a new coffee drinker - having been so long without it you'd think it'll keep me awake indefinitely. But somehow it's making me feel so tired and this is your pucka (pucker?) real Colombian coffee none of the decaffeinated rubbish that certain members of my family drink - so I'm not sure where I'm going wrong and I point blankly refuse to drink Red Bull after my 26 hour coma when I was doing my MA show in Canterbury in 2005 - ok, I had around 7 cans a day! Self inflicted. Anyone else have reverse effects from coffee? I've had 3 cups so far and all I want to do is curl up and go to sleep!

The weather is poor. Well, it's warm but there's a cold breeze blowing off the North Sea (er, not anywhere near the North Sea) but that's where it's supposedly coming from. It's a shame as I brought so many skirts with me this time after the heat of London - I want to wear more skirts! But obviously not with a breeze.

I'm currently residing by myself in the cottage as folks have gone back to London. The last few nights I've been by myself for the first time EVER in the cottage liking it, yes, but my voice keeps packing up as I have no-one to talk to - well, apart from the tame pheasant Rooney and the odd red legged partridge - not to mention the trees, but then they will put me away (but hey! Remember me folks? The crazy Scots Pine fancier, least I have an excuse, right?!). But tonight I'm off to stay at the farm with Sue and also tomorrow night - Monday night not because of The Sopranos!!!!

Ok, enough about me - actually - one more thing - I'm on the Exeter Phoenix website - scroll down to the bottom where you'll come across 'News' & 'Exeter Phoenix too' and I'm the last name (naturally - oh hum).

A few links - well probably only a couple as I need to go and wake myself up with a shower:

'Japanese conned into buying what they think are poodles but are actually sheep' I first heard about this last night on the BBC TV programme 'Have I Got News For You' - always a side splitter and couldn't stop laughing (by myself with no voice) - only now they're saying it was all a hoax - well, they would say that, wouldn't they?!

Speaking of Have I Got News For You, here is a clip from the series - guest host Boris Johnson, a Conservative MP - well, a bumbling old fool:



Now good old Boris is a person of/to ridicule and he never gets away with anything - as in, the butt of every ones jokes and the audience and the viewers at home love it - even me!

Ok, end of links and now long shower. Back soon with those never ending photos.

Emy xxx

Devon Is GLORIOUS

Ok folks, it is. It's full of nature - as in packed full. As you can see:

First of all, the whole garden is humming - as the oil seed rape is full of honey bees, flies & hover flies - amazing - never heard the likes!

But it's AMAZING! Even on a cloudy day - it's beautiful

There are violets in the hedgerow and:

Speedwell

Greater Stitchwort

Buttercups

Red Campion

Bluebells

Bluebells - but white

The apple blossom about to bloom

Marsh Marigolds in the pond

Forget-me-not's in the pot

Tulip's in the barrel

A very tame pheasant called 'Rooney'

Who stands by my feet wanting seed, more seed!

An Orange tip Butterfly - side on - I'll try and capture one with it's wings open


If it ever stays still for long enough

Yellow cottage





Bodmin moor the other day

I saw no 'Beast of Bodmin' or 'Bob' as he's called!

Although I did hear my first 'Cuckoo' haven't heard once since Scotland in June, 2 years ago



A field somewhere near Exeter - went to look at a property

A quiet Devon country lane near Bondleigh

And finally the first in my series - Julia in Bodmin

Yes, Julia will feature in a new series named 'Julia in . . .' as Julia is living the life she always wanted - she has now motored over 500 miles since we came on Saturday - probably a sixth of her life in 4 days! She has been reborn!

Got to go - have fun, one and all

Em xxx

And Back to Devon Again . . .

Yes, early tomorrow, with a friend and a van full of stuff, my Dad, me & my little car Julia. Then Dad will leave me on Thursday and I will be working hard on my own for a good fortnight. One small problem. I still have this darn cold - which I haven't been able to shake off for 3 weeks. Oh bugger.

Ok, here are some pictures from my past - all taken last weekend, but from a place I grew up in - our old road, old haunts & old Victorian house - just the outside mind. When we left that place, that was when we left London, not now, now I can handle - but I couldn't back then.

Blackheath Village



Greenwich Park on Sunday - it was packed!!!

Vanbrugh Castle - opposite the park gates - designed & lived in by John Vanbrugh himself - he designed Castle Howard, used for the Granada production of 'Brideshead Revisited'

Walking up Westcombe Park - getting near now

Same road - note the beautiful/sublime Victorian houses

Here we are - my lovely old road in the sun

Apparently everyone wants to live here now :(

The view of houses I knew so well

And my house - 'Prospects' is it's name - can you guess which one it is?

Did you guess right?!

Looking from what was one our parking spaces down the other end of the road

The view from my friend Shirley's back garden

Greenwich Power Station

Shirley's famous Flag Irises

Bluebell proper - none of your Belgium rubbish!

A lovely furry branch! lol

Almond Blossom - but I still reckon it's Cherry!

Camilla? I'm not good with flowering bushes

Ok, things to do, more packing to be done - I seem to live my whole life now in and out of bags, boxes & suitcases. One day I'll NEVER EVER have to do this again!

Emy xxxxxxxx

Life is Good

Oh my God - what lovely, LOVELY weather! So hot and blue and sunny that I even bought two pairs of sandals today! hahahaha. . . . And more lovely weather for tomorrow and Monday although I haven't seen a weather forecast for the rest.

Just a small, quick catch up of photos from the South East:

Daffodils at Greenwich park - this is the first time they've done this - or perhaps the first time I've been here to see it, as we're usually in Devon this time of year. It was stunning. All gone now though - that's the problem with Spring, the Daffodils don't stay as long as you want them

My good friend Mary & I went to Chartwell in Kent - the home of Winston Churchill - definitely my favourite house - a few days before Easter and it was empty! The WHOLE garden to ourselves - bliss

I think I'll definitely miss driving out to Kent when I leave the South - but I have a good feeling that I will be back to visit

A Chartwell Pheasant- of course we have PLENTY of these in Devon!

Me & my car Julia taken by Mary - Julia is now going to Devon on Saturday for good

Easter day - did those planes cross over deliberately or was it a fluke?

Whatever it was - it made the day!!!!!!

Ok, a big week planned next week: seeing friends, going up to town. Bluewater - and then my beloved Devon on Saturday!

Lots of love to everyone and have a great weekend - or what's left of it! xxxxx