We've been in the house for about five weeks but I think that we've spent as many days in London as we have at home.
Not deliberately. Well it was to begin with. That first weekend, just two days after we'd moved in, we dropped all our bags and boxes and ran to London to catch up with everyone that we'd missed, and the invitations that we hadn't been able to accept over the past few months.
At last we got to see my sister P's awesome new flat, ate lunch in this cool up-market market, took home scrumptious but probably over-priced sour dough bread, salty butter and cakes that she bought from here for us. It's a shame that I can't find the images...Everything was so good. (Thanks P)
Then there were trips to collect A's brother on a mad visit from Denmark and stay a couple of days. Take him back to London again and stay another.
This week; a manic dash to pick up H's things ready for when she moves on. The blurry photographs with fast shutter sum it up. It's all mad, the traffic is crazy, the sirens and car horns a cacophony that make you want to join in and SCREAM... It's busy and a million times faster than it will ever be here...Yet, you can't help liking it in a perverse kind of way.
But it's oh so good to drive back to our messy little house down quiet starlit lanes and curl up into bed at half past one for a good nights sleep until a wayward tractor starts it's own kind of cacophony an hour or two later. London is good, I love it. But "east, west..." you know the rest...
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Yes... 'east, west, London will always be the best!' That's how it goes, isn't it? That said, I am happy to be in my own messy house tonight, even though it is so far away from all that intoxicating hustle and bustle (sigh). Glad you are settling in to country life. Happy weekend x
ReplyDeleteThank Lucy. You too.
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Your title goes so well with your photos (which, by the way, are lovely). They really do capture the feeling of a fast, paced frenzy. Although, I haven't been taking trips back and forth to London (wish I was, though), the past few weeks have been a flurry of runaway days for us too. There is something so special about falling asleep in your own little bed in the country.
ReplyDeleteThanks Emily. It feels so like that at the moment. like you say it's good to get away but so good to be back safe and sound at home.
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Such beautiful photos, and it sounds like things are at least a *good* hectic, yes? Love the fast shutter photos especially...they kind of capture how I am feeling, being back to the academic year, commuting, meetings...got to learn to stop to sip tea more often when I can, even here in the Boston area!
ReplyDeleteYes you must get some breaks Erin. It's hard though with outside pressure to sometimes take a minute.
DeleteHope things aren't too hectic this week and you get plenty of tea breaks at the weekend.
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Loved catching up here with you although I had a hard time keeping up..LOL..:London is no doubt a wonderful place but happy for you finally getting into your new home.. It sure has been a busy Summer but now back to normal almost for us, too.. xo
ReplyDeleteIt's good to see your face Faye. I know how hard it is to keep up. Thanks for popping over and glad that you are back home for autumn.
Deletehappy days.
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