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[Goge]

That's one beautiful garden table. I love natural materials in furniture.

[KC]

Johanna wrote: "In Sunshine or in Shadow and The Boy with the Painful Tattoo under the plum tree. I'm going to take a reading break from gardening in a minute... :-)

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Very pretty! :-)

[Johanna]

Thanks, guys!

[Johanna]

Goge wrote: "That's one beautiful garden table. I love natural materials in furniture."

It's actually only a bench. :-) The tables we have in the greenhouse and on the patio underneath the pergola. Here's a photo of the greenhouse and the table there — also a nice place to read. :-)

[HJ]

Johanna wrote: "Here's a photo of the greenhouse and the table there — also a nice place to read. :-)..."

That looks perfect for those days which are too windy or chilly for being in the open air.

[Josh]

Sabine wrote: "You have a wonderful garden, Johanna!"

Yes, I love her bench!

[Alison]

Johanna wrote: "Goge wrote: "That's one beautiful garden table. I love natural materials in furniture."

It's actually only a bench. :-) The tables we have in the greenhouse and on the patio underneath the pergola..."

That looks pretty well perfect. I love it. You can enjoy the sun even on a cold day. :)

[Josh]

Alison wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Goge wrote: "That's one beautiful garden table. I love natural materials in furniture."

It's actually only a bench. :-) The tables we have in the greenhouse and on the patio undern..."

Yes. It is magazine-perfect. Only knowing Johanna, it will also be comfy and usable :-)

[Johanna]

Heh, you guys are sweethearts, but you also seem to know me too well. :-) The greenhouse has lights inside (attached to the roof ridge) and a heating lamp (I don't know what they call it in English) hanging from the ceiling. Oh, and we have a genuinely old oil lamp in there too. So yes, it's very cosy even at spring and autumn.

Feel free to stop by anytime. :-) I have blankets and gramophone ready (I have a big pile of old gramophone records too). For some reason we usually carry our gramophone to the greenhouse at some point during the summer, play the records and dance a little (yes, Antonella, you heard right!).

[Karen]

Johanna wrote: "Heh, you guys are sweethearts, but you also seem to know me too well. :-) The greenhouse has lights inside (attached to the roof ridge) and a heating lamp (I don't know what they call it in English..."

I love imagining you two dancing in your greenhouse to gramophone records. Sweet and a wee bit quirky. Perfect. : )

[Johanna]

Karen wrote: "I love imagining you two dancing in your greenhouse to gramophone records. Sweet and a wee bit quirky. Perfect. : )"

:-D

We always wonder if one or two of our neighbors will join us when they hear the music, but no one has joined us dancing yet. :-) I bet they think it's too quirky. ;-)

[Varecia]

Johanna wrote: "Karen wrote: "I love imagining you two dancing in your greenhouse to gramophone records. Sweet and a wee bit quirky. Perfect. : )"

:-D

We always wonder if one or two of our neighbors will join us..."

That's a sweet idea, Johanna. Now I imagine you and your hubby in a kind of Scandinavic "Out of Africa" scene!! :-))

[Anne]

Johanna wrote: "Karen wrote: "I love imagining you two dancing in your greenhouse to gramophone records. Sweet and a wee bit quirky. Perfect. : )"

:-D

We always wonder if one or two of our neighbors will join us..."
You should invite that very old neighbour of yours and her boyfriend :)

[Idamus]

Varecia wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Karen wrote: "I love imagining you two dancing in your greenhouse to gramophone records. Sweet and a wee bit quirky. Perfect. : )"

:-D

We always wonder if one or two of our neighb..."

Well, Out of Africa WAS written by a Dane :p
I have been to her home Rungstedlund several times

[Varecia]

Idamus wrote: "Well, Out of Africa WAS written by a Dane :p"

Um, I remembered that after posting :-))

[Calathea]

Anne wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Karen wrote: "I love imagining you two dancing in your greenhouse to gramophone records. Sweet and a wee bit quirky. Perfect. : )"

:-D

We always wonder if one or two of our neighb..."

What a lovely idea. :-)

[Calathea]

Johanna wrote: "Heh, you guys are sweethearts, but you also seem to know me too well. :-) The greenhouse has lights inside (attached to the roof ridge) and a heating lamp (I don't know what they call it in English..."

I love your greenhouse (but you probably know that^^).
It's a beautiful picture all lit up in the dark-ish night.
The heating lamp is genious.

[Antonella]

Josh wrote: "Yes. It is magazine-perfect. Only knowing Johanna, it will also be comfy and usable :-)"

Calathea and me can confirm this ;-)

[Johanna]

Johanna wrote: "We always wonder if one or two of our neighbors will join us when they hear the music, but no one has joined us dancing yet. :-) I bet they think it's too quirky. ;-)"

I have to correct myself a bit, because hubby reminded me yesterday that the first time we danced in greenhouse to gramophone records, almost all our neighbors showed up because they were curious to see from where the nostalgic sounding music came. Nobody stayed to dance, though.

[Johanna]

Varecia wrote: "That's a sweet idea, Johanna. Now I imagine you and your hubby in a kind of Scandinavic "Out of Africa" scene!! :-))"

LOL! I love that movie. :-)

[Johanna]

Anne wrote: "You should invite that very old neighbour of yours and her boyfriend :)"

I'm sorry to tell you that the 94 year-old boyfriend Eino passed away last winter just before our lovely neighbor had her 90th birthday. So, that's been really sad and she has a hard time getting over it. They had been dating for 26 years and not a day had gone buy when they hadn't called twice a day to each other. They also traveled together a lot and visited each other often.

Our neighbor (Delilah is her name, but everyone calls her Tellu) just stopped by the fence this morning when she saw hubby using the lift machine and we were pondering over some laths and painting, and she hollered "It looks like you have a need for a boss there!" Offering herself for the job, obviously. :-D

[Johanna]

Calathea wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Heh, you guys are sweethearts, but you also seem to know me too well. :-) The greenhouse has lights inside (attached to the roof ridge) and a heating lamp (I don't know what they ca..."

Awww. Thank you, dear. It was such a pleasure to have you visiting us (and the greenhouse, LOL).

[Johanna]

Antonella wrote: "Josh wrote: "Yes. It is magazine-perfect. Only knowing Johanna, it will also be comfy and usable :-)"

Calathea and me can confirm this ;-)"

I wish you were here!!! And I bet also the greenhouse misses you. :-D

[Anne]

Johanna wrote: "Anne wrote: "You should invite that very old neighbour of yours and her boyfriend :)"

I'm sorry to tell you that the 94 year-old boyfriend Eino passed away last winter just before our lovely neigh..."

That's sad, but I guess not unexpected. I liked the story about the two elderly lovers so much, it speaks directly to my romantic heart.

[HJ]

Johanna wrote: "Heh, you guys are sweethearts, but you also seem to know me too well. :-) The greenhouse has lights inside (attached to the roof ridge) and a heating lamp (I don't know what they call it in English..."

Johanna, this sounds perfect!

[Alison]

Johanna wrote: "Heh, you guys are sweethearts, but you also seem to know me too well. :-) The greenhouse has lights inside (attached to the roof ridge) and a heating lamp (I don't know what they call it in English..."

Oh, it just gets better and better! :) Your greenhouse really IS perfect! A heater and a gramophone and blankets and cosiness. I want to come and dance in your garden with you. :)

[Johanna]

Alison wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Heh, you guys are sweethearts, but you also seem to know me too well. :-) The greenhouse has lights inside (attached to the roof ridge) and a heating lamp (I don't know what they ca..."

You are most welcome to join us whenever you want, dear. :-) Dancing works better during the summertime, but if you happen to visit us in winter we can make snow angels instead. :-D

[Alison]

Johanna wrote: "Alison wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Heh, you guys are sweethearts, but you also seem to know me too well. :-) The greenhouse has lights inside (attached to the roof ridge) and a heating lamp (I don't kn..."

Sounds lovely! How about dancing in the snow? I love snow angels. When the snow is so soft and deep you can just fall back into it...poof! and disappear. I miss a nice snowy winter. Though I can at least send cold, wintery thoughts to all of you baking in the northern heat. Stay cool, everybody. :)

[Antonella]

Here are Skip and Pip by Catherine Dair and my Kindle with Out of the Blue on Clifton suspension Bridge (1864) in Bristol:



ETA: Skip and Pip courtesy of Helena Stone

[Sabine]

Very airy :-)! Thank you Antonella for showing the photo.

[Anne]

Antonella wrote: "Here are Skip and Pip by Catherine Dair and my Kindle with Out of the Blue on Clifton suspension Bridge (1864) in Bristol:


Nice!


ETA: Skip and Pip courtesy of [author:Helena Stone|..."

[Antonella]

Sabine wrote: "Very airy :-)! Thank you Antonella for showing the photo."

Absolutely! Helena was worried that Skip and Pip would fall down because of the win.

[Catherine]

Antonella wrote: "Here are Skip and Pip by Catherine Dair and my Kindle with Out of the Blue on Clifton suspension Bridge (1864) in Bristol:

Thank you for posting this! It's so lovely to see my fuzzballs in such a picturesque location with one of my favorite authors. This is so perfect!



ETA: Skip and Pip courtesy of [author:Helena Stone|..."

[Josh]

Antonella wrote: "Here are Skip and Pip by Catherine Dair and my Kindle with Out of the Blue on Clifton suspension Bridge (1864) in Bristol:



LOL

ETA: Skip and Pip courtesy of [author:Helena Stone|..."

[Karen]

Antonella wrote: "Here are Skip and Pip by Catherine Dair and my Kindle with Out of the Blue on Clifton suspension Bridge (1864) in Bristol..."

Happy that those two didn't blow away. Great shot!

[Calathea]

Here's the yearly photo of UK Meet swag. ;-)
Very important the centerpiece: a Jefferson Blythe notebook. Even the back is in the JBE-design. Johanna is just that awesome with (cover-)design.

[Johanna]

Antonella wrote: "Here are Skip and Pip by Catherine Dair and my Kindle with Out of the Blue on Clifton suspension Bridge (1864) in Bristol:"

It looked like Skip and Pip got themselves in all kind of adventures in Bristol! :-D

[Johanna]

Calathea wrote: "Here's the yearly photo of UK Meet swag. ;-)
Very important the centerpiece: a Jefferson Blythe notebook. Even the back is in the JBE-design. Johanna is just that awesome with (cover-)design."

Cool that you thought of taking a photo of all the swag, Calathea! :-)

I just posted the Jefferson notebook photo on Five Things I Love thread, but I'll post it also here if someone is interested in seeing the back cover.

[Johanna]

And here is a moment from my Helsinki-Oulu flight last night. Re-reading Murder in Pastel. :-)

[Josh]

Calathea wrote: "Here's the yearly photo of UK Meet swag. ;-)
Very important the centerpiece: a Jefferson Blythe notebook. Even the back is in the JBE-design. Johanna is just that awesome with (cover-)design.



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That's a nice haul of goodies

[Anne]

Johanna wrote: "And here is a moment from my Helsinki-Oulu flight last night. Re-reading Murder in Pastel. :-)

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Did the safety instructions keep you safe from murder? :)

[Johanna]

Anne wrote: "Johanna wrote: "And here is a moment from my Helsinki-Oulu flight last night. Re-reading Murder in Pastel. :-)

Did the safety instructions keep you safe from murder? :)"

LOL. No, the murder happened, but I made sure I was in my brace position at the time. Although it didn't seem to help for this kind of thing... :-)

[Karen]

Calathea wrote: "Here's the yearly photo of UK Meet swag. ;-)
Very important the centerpiece: a Jefferson Blythe notebook. Even the back is in the JBE-design. Johanna is just that awesome with (cover-)design."

Some haul of loot there. : )

[Karen]

Johanna wrote: "And here is a moment from my Helsinki-Oulu flight last night. Re-reading Murder in Pastel. :-)"

Cool photo, Johanna. That cover is graphic genius!

[Eve]

Johanna wrote: "Calathea wrote: "Here's the yearly photo of UK Meet swag. ;-)
Very important the centerpiece: a Jefferson Blythe notebook. Even the back is in the JBE-design. Johanna is just that awesome with (cov..."

Thanks to Antonella, I now have a copy of the lovely notebook :-)

[Antonella]

thelastaerie wrote: "Thanks to Antonella, I now have a copy of the lovely notebook :-)"

You can just imagine a picture of Eve, Uli and me today in London, because we are a bit allergic to posting pictures on the social media ;-). But we were happy to meet again, once a year is the minimum frequency of seeing each other.

[Johanna]

thelastaerie wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Calathea wrote: "Here's the yearly photo of UK Meet swag. ;-)
Very important the centerpiece: a Jefferson Blythe notebook. Even the back is in the JBE-design. Johanna is just that a..."

Cool! :-)

[Johanna]

Antonella wrote: "thelastaerie wrote: "Thanks to Antonella, I now have a copy of the lovely notebook :-)"

You can just imagine a picture of Eve, Uli and me today in London, because we are a bit allergic to posting ..."

This is wonderful. I can imagine you gals so well!

[Johanna]

Karen wrote: "Johanna wrote: "And here is a moment from my Helsinki-Oulu flight last night. Re-reading Murder in Pastel. :-)"

Cool photo, Johanna. That cover is graphic genius!"

Well, I couldn't be happier that so many of you guys seem to like the cover. :-) Thank you for your kind words, Karen and everyone. Josh is such a brilliant writer that it's not exactly a piece of cake to make a cover for him. I mean... what if I manage to ruin things with an ugly cover? When one thinks that the story in question is pretty much perfect (like I did think about Murder in Pastel) that tends to put a bit pressure on the cover making process... :-D

[Loretta]

Where I am going to eat my last meal in Ireland - Lanyon Restaurant