Cheap decorating…

Those who know me as a historical fiction writer, also know me as a beach lover and someone who spends much time walking on beaches up and down my coast. Sometimes I just daydream about whatever I’m working on at the time. Sometimes I just live in the moment. And sometimes I become an interior decorator because living by the sea, one doesn’t have to spend a fortune on trendy decorating pieces…

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One just goes for a walk and a bit of a fossick along the beach.

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There are deliciously smooth pieces of wood, skeleton leaves, stingray egg-cases and kelp roots.

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Rippled and worn cuttlefish, crab carapaces bleached and worn by the wind,

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white china and stones and a bird ribcage.

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I’ve filled two little plates with small things because House itself is small. Everything from glass to shards of timber,

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crayfish carapaces, insect wings, sea urchins, abalone and cowrie shells.

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And I have a thing about feathers. The huge one belongs to an albatross.

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Outside it’s no different – dried seaweed, tumblegrass from the sand dunes, driftwood, white scallop shells and abalone. Even bits of rope.

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And last but not least – learned behaviour from my Jackie. Every walk of every day, he collects one oyster shell and carries it home.

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I have no idea why, but we have our very own midden  at the front gate.