When you've written a blog for a few years or more a pattern tends to emerge and you find yourself writing annually about the same kind of things at the same times of year. It's probably because a year has a rhythm, especially for those of us who live with four distinct seasons. Most of us are creatures of habit and whilst we enjoy change and variation many of the things we do are similar year in year out - or maybe that's just my family! Anyway, the start of this years school summer break has been very much like the one we had last year...
Amy has dyed her hair blue again (with a little help from me) though this year her hair is substantially shorter than it was last year. She decided to say goodbye to long hair a few months back and loves it (I kept her 12 inch pony tail, as I couldn't bear to see it thrown away).
Toby has been enjoying the garden and helping me tend our tiny patch - he's become very good at watering the plants though I do have to remind him to point the hose in the right direction and I have been sprayed a few times when his concentration has wavered.
Sadly there will be very few beans and peas to harvest this year - I've resolved to start them off inside next year and invest in a beer trap or similar non-chemical slug eradicator, pesky things have ruined my bean and pea plants. The squash are doing well again though, as are the courgettes, kale and broccoli.
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The new raspberries that I planted back in winter from bare root canes are yet to ripen but they're coming on and the herbs have gone a bit wild and overgrown with some going to seed. Which is fine by me, as the bees really like the flowering thyme, hyssop, coriander and marjoram.
The hydrangeas are doing well too - I really love those big frothy white balls of flowers.
Well, that's it from us for this week. It's a cool day with heavy rain here today so we're pottering inside and I'm hoping to get some time for knitting (I'm working on a shawl - Pebble Beach by Helen Stewart in beautiful delicate merino from Walk Collection.)
Hopefully summer will return next week!
