View from a room

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Me too! Where is it ?

Our little love shack in the remotest subtropical Far North of NZ. The house is a wreck...but the view and the remoteness make up for all the renovations we are having to do.

It's beautiful! Hope it goes on giving you lots of joy!

Wonder if Julia would let us go and "help" with the renovations Bella? We're awfully good at house work aren't we?

We could form a working party

although, on second thoughts - is there an outside dunny?

Ladies, you are welcome any time! Dunny is inside, so no worries about that! Paintbrushes, crowbars, chainsaws provided ...

I'll bring my folding chair so that I can just gaze at the scenery and supervise the working party

I'll bring the kiwifruit muffins and chilled NZ Sauv Blanc.

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At the moment I'm not able to take or post a photograph, but my usual place for posting on GN is the old desktop pc in the "office" I.e. third bedroom.

The window looks out on the back garden, which is very much a work in progress!

However, there is an ancient mixed wood "hedge" at the bottom, with a lovely dog rose scrambling over the hawthorn, oak and willow.

Just over the hedge is a field, currently devoid of livestock, as they are getting ready to cut hay, but often home to sheep or store cattle.

I look out of the window often, and there is always something to waste spend time observing.

There are deer that can often be seen browsing along the hedge, wood pigeons and magpies squabbling among the branches, and of course all of the many neighbourhood cats stalking through the grass, perhaps trying to emulate their ancestors and being "tigers in the jungle"

Phoenix Sounds wonderful. There is nothing more beautiful than the bucolic British landscape.

The wood pigeons are obviously suffering from the heat today. One of them has been lying down in the bird bath for several minutes now while the other two have formed an orderly queue.

I can imagine what they are saying oldgoat

"Howay Derek, there's more than you feeling the heat you know"

Just in case you wondered... DGS (7) christened a wood pigeon that came into our garden Derek and whilst we get quite a few, he thinks it's the same one... his Derek.

No idea where he got the name from mind you?

This is ours at the moment, we had a carob tree trimmed yesterday! The attractive television on the floor is because DH was trying to get me to agree with him that the bigger one he liked, was better.
I'll try to find a photograph I took last month of the normal view.

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This is it,still got the builders pallets in it. The second one is out the side window.

I'm really enjoying this thread, very restorative, if you know what I mean.

By the way MawBroon, I keep meaning to say that whenever I see pictures of your garden, it reminds me so much of our last one in England. Same lawn, fence at end, trees behind. Probably better flowers though.