What makes a fabulous beach house?
A picture perfect little bay with a pristine and sandy white beach, gentle surf for swimming and body boarding, a cluster of interesting rock pools to forage in, only a handful of houses and a nearly deserted beach.
What makes a fabulous weekend at a beach house ?
Delicious food in abundance, mussels picked from the rocks, fresh oysters from Saldanha, which is just around the corner.
Saturday lunch was delicious melt in the mouth lamb, we were a bit late - sorry no pics and a breakfast salad with boiled eggs and roasted vine tomatoes, fried Ham on the side.
A saxophone in the early afternoon shadows, gently playing the sultry and sexy tones of
' Summertime, and the living is easy....."
The space for long beach walks or to practice a few challenging yo-yo techniques.
A quiet, sunny corner facing the sea, to read a good book or the warm light of a lamp to knit by.
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| the view from the kitchen windows on the other side of the house |
Most of all, it was the gathering of good friends to celebrate the birthday of a lovely lady -
and I do believe, I hear the distant ring of bells...........
I have to finish on this magnificent tattoo, aptly nautical for the beach house weekend, but look a little longer and you see so much more.
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| one of Barend's 'sea legs' |
That was one fantastic weekend.
ReplyDeleteSlightly pea green with envy here.
xo Jane
Ja, I just invited myself. You can't do this to people. It's not nice. You had me with the beach but the osyters were the final straw. And then a tattood man knitting something difficult and pink!
ReplyDeleteIt's such a lovely little spot guys..and the bonus was the warm summer weather we are having in the middle of winter.
ReplyDeleteJust had to throw in that picture of Barend- isn't it such a wonderful contradiction!!
and you're quite right, he is knitting something difficult, he's an artist and it's going to be a gorgeous pink spiral....in fact I should just do a blog on Barend!
A man knitting something pink...he's way outside "the box" already. Like a man wearing a pink shirt here as a sign of his self confidence in his identity here...
ReplyDeletecaptures it beautifully Karen. It feels like a dream!
ReplyDeleteCAN'T wait for the next one xx