Eek, having visitors is even more time consuming (though fun!) than I thought! Though the holidays have been great. I’ve been missing my list making, though, so here are seven great things from recent weeks:


1. All of our recent travel. I’m digging this easy travel to a multitude of countries thing! Photos from Copenhagen, Bruges, the Netherlands and Luxembourg forthcoming.
2. Despite weather forecasts predicting doom and gloom we had spendid sunny days on our holidays
3. Staying in a village that had a very dracula-looking castle overshadowing it, and having a waitress serve us who was clearly on her way to becoming one of the living dead
4. Getting to eat yummy European food such as decent bread (I’m sorry but the cliches about poor bread quality in Britain are true, much to my shock and dismay)
5. When we came home after 6 days away my flower seeds had all started sprouting!
6. Yesterday I went to my first genuine English jumble sale. No Bishop’s Birdstump, and it was very very small (local church) but I bought a milk jug and glass cookie jar for 75p!
7. And leaves are finally returning to most trees, so everything it looking green and fresh. It never occurred to me that for so much of the year there wouldn’t be leaves on the trees so it is so nice to see them here again!
8. I have to sneak in an extra kick to say I’ve just gone to look at bluebells in a local wood and they’re even prettier than I imagined they would be. I get why everyone loves them now.

There are fantastic illustrations accompanying the other lists today at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.