Almost Autumn

We thought that the Autumn weather was finally here, so, we set off to the markets on Saturday morning wearing scarves and gumboots. However, not long into the morning, the sun came out and the day warmed up. We removed our scarves and went in search of ice-cream. Sitting on the steps, listening to Irish folk music while sharing a large cup of chocolate organic ice-cream with your children. It doesn't get much better than that. I love the atmosphere of markets. I got some Balinese tin from Petit Voyage's, beautiful stall and some nice soap from here. Some for a gift, some for me.



I bought some of this.



I want some of these.



I love these. All images are from Petit Voyage's blog.

With a quick stop (bargins) at a garage sale on the way home and our day was complete.
I got some vintage fabric $1.00, a small mid century style coffee table $5.00 and a small (you know the workout kind) trampoline $2.00. Money well spent. The kids put the trampoline in the garage, because it started raining again and bounced the whole afternoon away. Happy days.

Caught in the rain

My dad and his girlfriend have been visiting for the last couple of days. They usually only come for the weekend and it’s all rushing about, that we hardly see them.

Yesterday we set off for a 2 hour beach walk only to get absolutely soaking wet. Just 5 minutes after we started our walk the rain started. It was fun at first, but little did we know that it soon would be thundering and lightening with driving, beating rain. We were soaked through.

The up side was, that once we got home and dry there wasn’t much else to do than just hang out at our place eating, chatting, eating. Just lovely. Coffee, ice-cream in a cone, christmas stollen, mangoes, fish and chips, homemade apricot jam, german christmas biscuits, lychees. I do like the holidays and the relaxed atmosphere that has settled upon this family at the moment. The rain has settled in again tonight and I am enjoying the soft sprinkle of it on the windows.