TEXTURES (3) - AUGUST CHALLENGE

We are so blessed to have good neighbours on both sides, who are willing to help at any time but who also have a fantastic sense of humour. Many and varied items pass between us, such as extra vegetables or fruit from the garden, plants that are surplus to requirements, cakes baked and for which we want someone else’s opinion - I’m sure you get my drift.

Last Sunday I was busy in the garden using our son’s very larger Karcher patio cleaning machine - and was very wet and dirty, when there was a shout from our neighbour, Lyn - you need to know that the side doors of our houses open towards each other, with a carport above.

For the last couple of weeks she has been decluttering and every so often, she would come to her door and call over to me to ask if I wanted any of the items she was getting rid of. Sometimes, as you will have read on yesterday’s blip, we help her out - by taking some of her raised beds and soil - but sometimes, you just don’t need other people’s junk (and I know she will forgive me for calling it that!)

A little brown teapot has been the source of many laughs during the last few days - Lyn would ask on a regular basis if we wanted it - and Mr. HCB, who is the tea drinker, would tell her he wasn’t interested. However, she was determined not to take his “No” for an answer.

So when she called out to us on Sunday, we could see she had something in her hands - and when we opened the garage door this is what we saw! We just couldn't stop laughing! She had spent the afternoon decorating the little brown teapot so it was now an object of beauty! How could we possibly refuse it?

So our beautiful, colourful, psychedelic teapot (which actually matches our neighbour) has pride of place in the middle of the table in our conservatory - and fits in well with today’s August Challenge of TEXTURES.. Don’t you wish you had a neighbour like ours and a teapot like this?

"We make our friends;
we make our enemies;
God makes our next door neighbour.”
Gilbert K Chesterton


We do thank God for our wonderful neighbours.