This has been one of those whirlwind weeks when it seems like there weren't enough days between monday and friday. So I'm making the most of the last peaceful hour before school pick-up by savouring some quiet knitting in the afternoon sun and listening to Chill.
I'm hoping the weekend days will last a little longer than this week and that there's a cup of tea in bed on the menu! Have a lovely weekend where you are.
Vegetabley things are going on again here and I feel so proud of all my little seedlings as they burst forth from their little compost beds.
It's a very magical thing to take a tiny dry brown seed and nurture it into a little plant and even better when you know it's going to be producing delicious things to eat in a few months time. After starting in earnest last year I am now completely hooked on growing veg and have quite a selection of seedlings ready to plant out for this season:
mangetout peas, dwarf french beans, tomatoes large and small, summer cabbage, tenderstem broccoli, oak leaf lettuce, courgettes and basil which will all be joining the carrots, parsnips, spring and maincrop onions, cos lettuce, potatoes and rocket that are already in the beds.
I'll no doubt be boring you rigid with more pictures of my garden produce in the coming months - sorry in advance!
The house is quiet once more, the children are back at school and a day of pottering around with a little knitting time is calling me. Although I'm really relishing the prospect of a little time to myself again we have had a good easter break. The weather has been kind and so lots of our time has been spent outside...
I've cleared a washing backlog
there has been fun with friends
play in the garden
and of course a hunt for the easter bunny on easter sunday.
All the ingredients of a good school break - hope you had a fun one too.
Here in our garden there's one true sign that spring has arrived - the blossoming of our old plum tree.
She pretties herself up with masses of frothy white blossom and if you wander around the garden at dusk there's such a delicate, beautiful scent in the air - for me the signature scent of spring.
It's late this year though. When I look back at previous years posts about blossoming they were all in february or march and this year here we are in April.
Still better late than never as they say! Time to get planting the veg beds in earnest now.
This weekend we're hoping for a little chocolate, a little spring sunshine and a lot of smiles, here's wishing you the same - Happy Easter!