I’ve come to a country town a couple of hours from Melbourne to spend the weekend with my friend Kylie. She’s just got a new job and will be staying in a beautiful little place that looks like it’s come from the pages of Country Living magazine. It’s a rustic old barn house complete with beautiful antique furniture, wonderfully hand crafted fittings, and brilliantly reclaimed items that give the place a quite magical feel that I confess leaves me a little envious.

I took a few internal shots of her new place, trying to capture its charm in the way those glossy magazines always seem to. But in the end I liked this picture the best. The old blue bike by the door is covered in cobwebs and clearly hasn’t taken anyone anywhere in quite some time.

I think Country Living would probably overlook the old bike if they came calling, so just in case that happens and it doesn’t make it onto those glossy pages, I thought I’d give the old bike an opportunity to shine once more.

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