ART AND GARDENS

Behold my $10 caftan, made of a piece from the Sydney fabric jaunt..

I wore it to an Arty Dinner - I think it enjoyed itself.

The $2 'jade' bangle from a Hong Kong market, and the cheap blue glass earrings found in a forgotten alleyway in Venice had a fine time too...

    

The long hot Summer continues...

 there is not much action in the Garden of Neglect.  

It needs water - lots of water..

Happily, we had several hours of heavy rain on Friday night.  

Yay!  It reversed some of the damage of the day before, when it hit 39 deg here and the front lawn turned brown in a few hours...

It is time to get serious and plan our trip to Ireland for our son's wedding,

with a little tourism on the side.

I've been thinking of my unfinished business in London:

Art and Gardens, 
Gardens and Art...

Always been a Bloomsbury fan, and loved my visits to Virginia Woolf's 'Monks House' and Vanessa's 'Charleston' - years ago..

Now I want to see Sissinghurst Castle garden.
Doing my research, currently on the kindle I am reading 'Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West'.  
I like to be prepared...

I bet Sissinghurst doesn't have any of these lying beside the hedges.

 Mr C found a 2 metre python on Friday...

If you can bear to work this out, the head is on the right resting on the coil beneath - see the little white flash of the side of the face.

My brave knight sprayed a little water on the snake, and as soon as things were quiet, the snake went away.

Off to a Sunday movie, we saw 'Trumbo.'

It was excellent... and shocking to think what went on in Hollywood back in the day.  As well as the drama of the narrative, I was transfixed by the paintings in the background of the interior scenes:  slightly 'rearranged' copies of famous Impressionist paintings, showing the wealth of the owners. 

Helen Mirren as Hedda Hopper - what amazing hats -

and what a piece of work that woman was...

Love Helen in this role.

Please send more rain.

Have a great week.

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