"A bathing-hut, to my mind, is a small wooden sentry box crammed with damp towels, sand-shoes, black spectacles, melting chocolate, and fishing-tackle, and with so many wet bathing-dresses on the floor it is difficult to find anywhere to stand. But Faith has procured for herself a sort of mansion in off-white, with pale green china on hooks, and a kettle, and chintz curtains with lilies of the valley all over them, and six green deck-chairs with canopies and salmon-pink cushions."
From Henrietta's War by Joyce Dennys.
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Sounds like she would fit in very well to the beach hut community here ... I walk along most Sat'day nights to admire beach hut chic as much as the sunsets. I thought Cath Kidston was posh. But chintz curtains with lilies of the valley is even more des-res.
Posted by: m | 28 June 2009 at 02:22 PM
My grandmother had a bedroom chair covered with the freshest most gorgeous L of the V fabric. The closest I can get to that is 3 cushion covers. see them over at
http://craftypeople.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/chintz-curtains-with-lilies-of-the-valley-all-over-them/
Posted by: Ruth | 28 June 2009 at 03:51 PM