Had a lovely few days...
Friday I spent 4 hours at the allotment digging weeds (bind weed and nettles mostly, with an scattering of dock and thistles, just for interest) and planting potatoes. We also have a couple of raised beds with baby cabbages in. Covered in netting against the dreaded cabbage white butterfly, whose caterpillars can reduce a cabbage to the bare veins in a weekend or less!
Finished up on Saturday with a 2 hour stint. Gave the rest of the potatoes to the neighbours from the school, who are actually really nice, despite the fact that their imaculate plot makes ours look positively slovenly... At least we've got more planted than they do...
In the afternoon we went geocaching with the boys... if you've not heard of it you must find out. It is so much fun. A walk with a purpose. Fantastic for getting kids off their rumps... Treasure hunting. What more could they want?
The first picture is the view from where we found our cache.
Then we continued on for a longer walk, up Roseberry Topping, a bizzarely shaped hill. It looks like the crest of a wave. It's a lovely walk up, through bluebell woods, then wild garlic, and finally gorse. Talk about a change of scent as you ascend!
Dude at the top with the view
Spike and Pip enjoying themselves. Pip made it up first, and wanted to make sure everyone knew that!
Today has been gorgeous too. Picnic lunch in the garden, and now we are about to go out treasure hunting again. I uploaded some that looked good to our GPS unit, and now we can go hunting!
1 comment:
your garden looks great! it has that "lived-in" look. Getting started is the hard part, once you get your plants going, they will inspire you even more.
Your pictures are really nice. What a happy bunch!
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