My lovely new rug has been taken over

I thought that my beautiful new rug was just for me, positioned as it is on my side of the bed....



...but my dozens of miniature Little Gem bears seem to have other plans...



They apparently think that instead of one 6' by 4' rug for me, I've bought them 117 little individual colour co-ordinated ones...





And have all staked a claim...











...though one multicoloured bear didn't know quite where to sit ...



I'd been looking for a colour block rug for ages and can highly recommend the company I ended up using - Apple Rugs. The rug was much cheaper than the same one elsewhere, they replied to a query straightaway even though it was a Sunday (the other firm never repled to the same query) and the delivery was very speedy.

A new use for Suffolk Weekend Time

I'm distraught at the idea that I can only repeat my daily mantra "the days are getting longer" for a couple more days. June always seems far too early in the "summer" for the run-in to autumn to begin.

I think the days getting shorter would be a lot more bearable if it continued to stay light in the evening - it seems such a waste that it's light at 4-something when I for one don't take advantage of it.

When we first came to Suffolk, we were generally only here at weekends while working in London. Getting up at 6am on a Monday was horrible, so we invented Suffolk Weekend Time (SWT), which involved putting our watches forward on a Friday evening so that the Monday start was at a much more civilised 7am.

It might be a tall order to persuade the powers that be to adopt an additional nationwide hour change in June, so I guess we'll have to go it alone again. SWT - renamed Suffolk Double Summer Spanish Time - will be introduced in our house on a trial basis from June 21st. So even at the end of August the sun won't set 'til 8.49pm, giving a nice long evening in the garden in the sunshine (one can but hope). OK, so it won't rise until 7.11am but that doesn't bother me as I'll only just be stirring to consciousness...