The Midweek Meander

Well hello there, how’s your week been so far? I write to you on a Monday morning, no wait, it’s technically afternoon now (wow, where’s the day gone? I’m powered by coffee and Nutella today; I opted for a jar of the bad stuff over a healthy, protein-packed lunch like social media relentlessly instructs me because I’m feeling rebellious and lazy), and I’m looking out at my little garden feeling a smidge pleased with my green-fingered efforts this year. After seven years of trial and error with quite frankly, the WORST soil in the world, my dream of having a colourful - and slightly wild - cottage garden is slowly, very very slowly, coming to fruition. Pink roses are exploding into bloom, foxgloves are multiplying in a self-seeding frenzy, and I’m bloody impatient as anything to see if the collection of dahlias I’ve been tending to more conscientiously than my own children are going to gift me a mass of beautiful flowers this year.

The house and garden are blissfully silent after a packed weekend with the family, which is lovely but always leaves my batteries running on empty by Sunday evening. I had a fabulous trip to the theatre on Friday to see The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by the Reduced Shakespeare Company. When I told my husband what we were going to watch (I booked the tickets six months ago and forgot all about them), he practically wilted in front of me. ‘It’ll be good’, I promised him, ‘and it’s only 1 hour and 20 minutes long so it can’t be too boring’. Having never heard of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, I said this almost as much to convince myself as him. But we needn’t have worried about a stiff, monotonous run-through of all of Shakespeare’s works, for it was easily one of the most hilarious stage shows I’ve ever watched. Variety magazine describes it as a ‘madcap condensation that features non-stop laughs’ and The LA Times called it ‘wildly funny’. I highly recommend trying to catch a show if you can, although they only have a few performances left in and around the UK, which you can check out here.

Anyway, there’s a lot in store for you in this week’s Midweek Meander… we’re tackling, in my opinion, one of the trickiest rooms to get right - and still love after many years - the BATHROOM. I’m going to be completely honest, I fell out of love with my bathroom quite some time ago and as someone who obsesses and ruminates over absolutely everything in life (mentally exhausting!), this has taken up quite a lot of my headspace. Something had to be done.

I’m going to show you what I’ve done (including a before and after) and share some top tips for updating and elevating a bathroom that you just don’t have all the feels for anymore. And as always, I’ve linked all my sources and shared some fabulous décor ideas…

(Plus, if you scroll down, there’s a lovely photograph of my hometown I took at the weekend. It’s so stunning! No one would believe me if I told them where it actually was!)