Are You a Hoarder ...

Hello there! Many thanks as always for your comments on my last post. Looking out of the study window at the mo and it is very bleak out there - the rain soaked pavements and the grey sky, makes you want to be indoors wrapped up warm with a mug of hot tea! Are you a tea or coffee person or neither. Me, I'm a self confessed tea drinker. Oh, and I like hot chocolate with all the trimmings too! My waistline demonstrates this!

As I was walking around the house today, from room to room - should have been dusting, but what the hell, what struck me was the amount of recycled broken / chipped mugs I had storing pens, pencils, letter openers, rulers etc. I know that I cannot pass W H Smith or a good stationers without diving inside for a gander. I wondered how many pens I had and more importantly how many actually worked 'cos I can never find one that does when I want one!

Can you spot the nibbled pencils - this is the handiwork of our cat, Ruby - who likes to chew wood!

Then I started noticing that I have rather a lot of scissors. Is the plural for scissors the same as the singular, it must be.

Far too many bits of stationary - look there's even pens on the windowsill, too many for the pot!

There's a further two container load on the windowsill in the study! In fact, there's a third which is out of shot! Good old foxy, named, Rufus is guarding the new Cath Kidston notebook which I had to buy when shopping at Waitrose on Saturday. I will take it along to my Photography Course on Friday to keep my notes all in one place! Until I spot another nice notebook, no doubt! In fact, I could do another post on notebooks - I have quite a few tucked away in various drawers!

So, please do tell - are you a hoarder / collector and if so, what do you have too many of, and what do you like to collect?

Small, vintage fox terrier - only included as I saw him on the study desk looking sad and cute!

I ventured into the kitchen - yes there are more pots with pens! I won't bore you with those but with this orchid which I've had for at least 15 months - it has thrived on neglect! When we were away over the Summer I asked our cat sitter to water it and she overdid it, the poor plant looked half dead and was dropping its flowers when we came home, I really thought it was a goner but having once again given it a diet of hardly any water two to three times a week it has perked up.

And finally, the amaryllis which is very vibrant!

All photos taken on the manual setting!

Until next time,

June.