Simple Pleasures #18.

Reaching 15000 page views on this here lil' ole blog.  Thanks!

(I don't normally look at my blog statistics, but I just caught sight of this when it was at a nice, round number!)

Charity Shopping, My Second Hand Wardrobe #2.

Here are some more of my second hand dresses.

This is a H&M tunic/dress (I think it's a top, but I'm 5 foot 1, so it's a knee length dress for me!).  It has a wrap top, which I've sewed up because it was showing too much cleavage!  £3 plus postage, Ebay.

 

Flowery, Asda dress.  £2, charity shop.

 

These Birkenstocks have been my favourite summer shoes and cost between £40 and £60 new.  £15 including postage, Ebay.

Have you bought any lovely second hand clothes lately?

The View from my Window.

I like living up in the clouds!

 

What can you see from where you are?

Easy Eco Actions October 2014

Here are this months easy, eco actions,

Use this online form to object to proposed fracking in Lancashire. 

Sign Greenpeace's petition to make the Arctic a global sanctuary. 

The RSPB's campaign to 'Vote for Bob' is  a challenge to politicians to protect nature.  Sign the petition by following the link above.

The badger cull has restarted in some counties in England, use the RSPCA's online form to ask Liz Truss, Environment Secretary, to stop the culls.

If you have any causes or actions to add then let me know in the comments and if I like it I'll add it in.  And feel free to share any of this info (or the whole post) wherever and with whoever you like - if you sign any of the petitions and use social media then please consider using the share on facebook or twitter options that pop up, it increases the reach of these actions and awareness of these issues even further.

 

Things I Loved This Month, September 2014.

This month I've loved,

* Spending a day looking after my niece, playing crayons and splashy water games and toe biting (she is still in a toe biting stage!) and trying to make her say Susie (she can do it, she says 'sisssseeeeeeee') * my 30th birthday, I had cake, chips, curry and lots of lovely cards, messages and pressies * Harry Potter Studio Tour, Awe-some! * Ikea * Wicked soundtrack * balloon * watching Doctor Who (what do you think of the new Doctor?  I love him!), Great British Bake Off, Downton Abbey, Clarissa Explains it All and Cilla * skyping * croissants * exciting snail mail *  buying a 2015 diary, organisation! * charity shopping * new houseplants * ice lolly in the sunshine * gardening * sweet peas * being bought flowers * reading Caitlin Moran's new book * making a new display at work * jelly * watching Arrietty, Made in Dagenham * my friend from Brazil being back in the UK for 6 weeks! * seeing art by Rossetti, Frances Bacon, Burne Jones and a Rodin at Shrewsbury Museum * chocolate covered kendal mint cake * homemade vegan pizza * buying some photo prints and making a photo album * making salt dough daleks * new birkenstocks * 

I had a lovely month apart from this MURDER happening in my block of flats, which has been very scary.  Pictures and film of my balcony and kitchen window have been all over local newspapers and TV news.  I have new found respect for the police, who have been here round the clock for the past week collecting evidence and well, I don't really know what else because they don't tell me, but I did see them emptying the bins which was pretty grim.

I hope you've had a lovely (and not as dramatic as mine) month too!?

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Home Grown Harvest, September 2014.

This is what I've harvested from my garden plot and balcony this month,

I looked after my mums house while she was on holiday, the blueberries, sweet peas and single hazelnut are from her garden.  Dissapointingly, there was no nut inside the shell of the hazelnut, which is probably why the squirrels left it!  They always beat me to it!   Apart from that I've had lots of courgettes, mini sweetcorn, the last of the broad beans, and a few leaves of rainbow chard. 

Are you still harvesting anything from your garden?

Balcony Garden, September 2014.

It's definitely feeling autumnal now, but my little balcony is still giving me some flowers and food!  These little begonias have flowered all summer and are keeping my new garden fairy company (she was a birthday present from a friends mum).

I have a last few strawberries coming.

The green leaves in this planter are a chickpea plant.  I think it's too late in the season for it to actually produce chickpeas but it's nice foliage anyway. 

I moved some chive plants I had growing inside to this trough outside, they seem much happier here.  You can see that my fuchsia is still flowering too, and that I need to sweep up the autumn leaves that keep fluttering onto my balcony from a nearby tree.

I did a late sowing of rainbow chard, and am very pleased they've germinated.  I've never grown it before this year but it's one of my favourites now!

I treated myself to some lilac-y purple pansies as I was passing the greengrocers the other day, they're really pretty and should flower all winter. 

I still have sunflowers flowering too.  I love them! 

How are your gardens?  Are the seasons changing where you are yet?

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Charity Shopping, Retro Jug and Bowl, Kitsch Deer and Swans.

Here are some treasures I've found in the charity shops recently, 

Retro jug and bowl set.  £3, charity shop.

Very kitsch deer.  £1, charity shop.

Very kitsch swans.  50p, charity shop.

Have you found any charity shop treasure lately?

Linking up with Thriftasaurus.
 

Simple Pleasures #17.

Snail mail!  PUMPKIN BUTTONS!!! Thank you Tammy!