Its later than you think

Hurrah for bank holiday weekends! It's been a mostly quiet one so far, lazy, mudding, babysitting and even some gardening today.

Friday, got home to find G.G. had finished resealing the seeping kitchen roof, and had made a start on Redoing the Patio, by taking up the existing one. After some discussion, decided he should take away the hedge where it runs along the driveway, so I could have Moar Patio without destroying the herb/flower patch.
Then headed home for a nice relaxing evening of not doing much, to prepare for helping out at newphew's 5th birthday party the next day.

Sat., however, recieved a reprieve an ended up not in a hall full of 5 yr old boys, but babysitting adorable baby new nephew, as we figuted that would probably be better for him than being stuck in the middle of the chaos. So, spent the afternoon peering into the pram to see if he was still asleep, while pottering around doing stuff about the house for Mum.

( how cute is he? )

Baby D. slept the whole time, best babysitting ever! Then the rest of the family came home from teh party so spent the afternoon running about the garden with older niece & nephew before heading home.

Got back here to discover hedge GONE. All gone. The kitchen gets much more light, but it is v. disconcerting being able to see out onto the street from there now. There is a fence going in to replace it, but it is v. odd!

Today, in between downpours, I finally tackled the lawn - with a strimmer, since it was too long AND wet to use the lawnmower. Hopefully this week will be drier so I can get it cut properly! also did windowboxes with new flowers, repotted some of the plants in the kitchen AND bought a sprouting kit to grow (or try growing) tasty beansprouts all of my own! I feel v. accomplished. The rest of the evening will involved dinner, lovely fizzy wine and sofa. Yay for bank holidays!

( pics plz )

Tomorrow I may tackle some of the mess on the inside of the house. Maybe.

I cut the grass! All by myself! Hurrah!

tho, not with my own lawnmower, which is mysteriously NOT in the garage. The extension cable is also gone, but the strimmer and scarifier are still there, which leads me to think I may have lent it to someone last summer, but haven't the faintest notion who. Hmm.

It could easily have been nicked (the garage door doesn't lock) but surely feefs would have taken the strimmer etc too? Odd.

Still, borrowed the logue's mower and it is done, with surprisingly little pain or limping. Go me!

Knackered now tho. Have to return lawnmower, get lunch, then head off to see family and enjoy the sunshine. yay for bank holidays!

Hmm. In work for 20 minutes and already am bored. Tho I do have an exciting meeting about data cleansing to look foward to in about 10 minutes. Yay.

Finally got hold of the scarifier thingy for the lawn last night, and got to see baby Jim Jnr too, who is very cute and blond and tiny.

The scarifier was great - in fact much more fun than one should really be allowed to have in the garden with anything electrical. Now all the nasty dead moss and grass are gone and I have, well, a rather patchy lawn, but the grass seed should take care of that - and fairly quickly at the rate it's been growing lately.

And... thats about it really. The rest of the evening was spent watching Lost while stabbing things on the mud then trying to figure out what to spend xp on. I need a new goal there I think; maybe I should take up a musical instrument or something. Or learn to steal so I never have to buy scumble again ;)

Yay, council have finally delivered Garden Waste Bins! And the sun has come out which means... why am I in here?

What I have to contend with...




Yes, it's a bit neglected. Two summers ago, a friend and I spent a lot of time making it very lovely, digging out beds and planting and so on, but last year, I just didn't have time and it kinda got away from me. Hopefully this year I can reclaim it again ;)

( more pics )