Raindrops keep falling on my head...

With dark, dark clouds making even the brighter parts of our house look gloomy and dull, it is time to flee into the room where our melatonin levels are most likely to be restored in a blink. Welcome to drink up the light with me!

Previous owners added the conservatory to the house. It is on a different level to the rest of the house, a couple of steps up from the kitchen. A sliding glass door has been added to appease Building Regulations - hence the rather odd-looking frame, and to serve the rather useful purpose of keeping the heat or cold from the conservatory from entering the rest of the house. 

On the wooden shelf to the right, you can see two Christmas presents from my very own Santa. An old, tall enamel jug and a matching - I believe it is called - corn scoop. In a house with a distinctive lack of corn, some moss and flowers seized the opportunity of a lazy Sunday in the scoop's embrace...

Behind my chequered star cushion in the armchair, rests my "Carte Postale" cushion cover, which I won in May-Liss' give-away just before Christmas. May-Liss is the lovely lady behind the Norwegian blog Malivas Verden, and yet another of so many warm and stylish blog sisters out there I have had the pleasure of getting to know through blogging. Thank you so much, May-Liss!

Ceiling fans are not on my Top Ten list of desirable objects, but this is a room that can reach some rather spectacular temperatures when basking in the summer sun, so the fans do justify their existence in this "green house"-ish room. Function before form? Well, maybe just this once...

Below is the rest of the conservatory, facing the garden, as it looked before Christmas. Think away the wreaths and the star lights and the pine cones...

Outside, the temperatures whisper of spring in the making. As for the rainfall with no end in sight, well, I'm thinking water lilies for the planting borders this year. What do you think?

All the best,

Helena