More piccies for folks

[louiselux]

Piccies for enigel:




I chose the view from my bedroom window, as I spend more time here than anywhere else!  And the view from the kitchen (the place where I spend the next longest amount of time) window isn't as good. The garden is looking a bit bare and you can see that my brick paved area is full of weeds. You can also see the crappy table made of a bit of kitchen work surface - in summer it has a table cloth but in winter it becomes an eyesore. It's covered in soggy pile of yew berries at the moment. You can see that the windows are not washed. In fact, I don't think they've ever been cleaned properly, beyond a hose in summer.




We have many bookcases. This is my favourite one- it's in the downstairs front room and it has mostly children's books and sci fi, along with other things that sneak in we tidy up.  often grab something off it on the way to work in the morning, to read on the train. You can see all the other things we keep on the bookshelves too - pots, bits of nonsense, plastic doo-dahs, photos, assorted piles of things.




The pantry. This is actually a crap photo, but my excuse is that I have a cold and it stops me seeing straight. We don't have a pantry, but rather the kitchen has a big cupboard with shelves were we keep packet food, tins and suchlike. You can see there isn't much of it at the moment. That box of cereals is empty and needs chucking. The big silver biscuit tin is empty, sadly. It holds food, plates and crockery, the sewing machine, and at the bottom you can see our emergency water supply, ready for that inevitable day when society breaks down.

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Something I've had for a long time. I've had this coat since I was 17 - I'm 34 now, so I've had it for 17 years. It was second hand from one of my favourite shops in the world - Rags to Riches in Nottingham, which was packed with vintage clothes from the 1920s onwards, and they were all affordable on a teenager's budget. We all loved that shop, but it's long gone now. Shame.




Favourite piece of jewellery. This necklace, a present from M two years ago, which he chose. Wearing it makes me feel very glamorous. That particular pearlised finish on red glass is one of my favourite things ever in the entire history of jewellery and decorative things.




View from my front door. Our front door is in the basement. This is standing at the front door, looking up at the neighbours car. My bike is visible to the right, and the small collection of pot plants to the left, with the lovely grey wheelie bin looming next to it. Behind the hedge, which we have tended mercilessly to make it grow huge, is a busy, bustling road. If you went to the top of the steps and looked left you'd see a tarmac car parking area, some potholes full of rain and across the road a row of shops. Those steps are steep.

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It's lovely to sit in in the summmer, with book and nice cooling gin and tonic. *wistful sigh*