Ahhh the serenity ...

Tiger, Daddy Bear and I went to Riverside Drive at the weekend.

We went to stay with Poppy S and Nanna L-L. Poppy S had been VERY EXCITED about seeing the girl he calls "The Poppet" for a Very Long Time. He, just like Granda C, Gran L, Grandma V and Nanna L-L, think Tiger is The Bee's Knees and The Cat's Pyjamas and The Duck's Guts. Tiger has charmed him just as she has charmed Cackle Mummy and Daddy Bear.

Tiger does that. She beguiles all she meets. Because she is a rock star Valkyrie Awesome McAwesomepants.

The other purpose of the visit was Cackle Mummy's Authorly Stuffs, but Cackle Mummy was just as excited about staying in The Blue Room.

The Blue Room, Riverside Drive is a mythical place; a place of comfort and sanctuary, immortalised in its very own blog. It was staying in this place of unquantifiable calm that - Cackle Mummy believes - allowed Tiger to make her way into the world safely. Cackle Mummy believes "the vibes" of this most serene of places infused her Tiger and helped make her the chilled and happy little girl she is now.

It is a place of water and sky and clean air and swans and ... well, yes, Turbo Chooks too, but everything else about the place is perfectly, perfectly, floatily calm, and Cackle Mummy takes every opportunity to take her Little Family there.

And we did have such a good time. So many laughs, so much good music, such lovely food cooked by Poppy S and Grandma L-L, so much Chasing Poppy S Around The Kitchen In Our Rocketship (HILARIOUS). 

We didn't want to come home. We never want to leave The Blue Room. 

We did, of course, enjoy our visit to Grandma V in The Mint Green Cottage (and were, as always, spoiled by another besotted grandparent), and Cackle Mummy loved having some author time ...

But it's The Blue Room that has our heart. It is our sacred place; the place where Tiger was imagined into existence.

We will return there again and again and, always, we will grieve as we leave it.

The Blue Room is a special place. A lovely place. We take it away with us in our hearts as we drive away. We long to return.

~ Love, Miss Cackle x