Give peas a chance

Nanny & Grandad came to visit on the weekend of 14th / 15th March which gave them a chance to be enchanted by Fudge and Humbug, watch Thomas at rugby training (not a player of the week performance unfortuntely!), get an early Mothers Day present and get the first vegetable seeds of 2009 in the ground. Thomas and Martha planted some peas with Grandad so they've got something to lovingly tend as spring turns into summer.





Is it the done thing to cut the lower branches off a silver birch to provide the required 'pea sticks'? We also need to decide what to put in the regular veg patch. After two years of less than spectacular butternut squash harvests I'm thinking of giving sweetcorn another go and probably some beetroot and maybe some nice brocolli. Anything that can broadly speaking fend for itself would probably be best.

Flying visit

We had a visit from Kate over the weekend of 5th /6th May, a weekend break from her RAF basic training. Thomas and Martha were naturally delighted to see her and the general excitement level went up a further notch with the simultaneous arrival of Rebecca and Amelia (no Grace sadly, she wasn't feeling very well). Everyone went to Boydells Farm in the afternoon (does anyone detect a pattern emerging?) and spent the rest of the afternoon in the garden. Here's a picture of Kate and three of her nieces and nephews on the hammock in the garden.



On Sunday Kate ironed her RAF greens, sadly the camera was charging at that point so there's no photographic proof, you'll just have to take our word for it.