Sunday Funday

I can't remember if I mentioned I had applied for a job or not, anyway I heard back this week and didn't even get an interview. A bit disappointing but more time to spend in the garden. I had paid a tree surgeon to come and do some tree lopping that was too much for me to take on but it still left me with masses to do. I decided to get rid of the ivy on the back wall as it was in danger of taking over the whole back border. Two full days and approximately 6 trips to the tip later

there is still a lot to do but the garden looks a lot bigger all of a sudden. This corner has still to be attacked and will be the challenge for the coming week.

I used to have a vegetable patch here and plan to do so again once I regain control of the space.

Thankfully the weather has been beautiful for the last 2 days (something of a miracle, I know). I made caramel shortbread last night, so we had our morning coffee outside today.

I used a new recipe and I can't say I was pleased with the results, I shall revert back to my old one. This morning Lily made Nick an omelette and a fruit smoothie for breakfast - with just a little help from me. We bought a children's cookbook yesterday and after a quick trip to the supermarket for ingredients she was off and running this morning. The omelette ended up more like scrambled eggs but I thought it was a valuable lesson for Lily to learn as she didn't read through the recipe before she made a start on it.

We had Angela round for lunch today and Tom helped me with the pavlova, I meant to take a photo of it to post on here but forgot andas it was so good we all had seconds so there was none left for even a partial picture. Oops. The sun is still shining so I am off outside to sit on my bench and soak up the last rays of sun.