Sunday 30th August: Happy birthday Greg. Today was cloudy and cooler than recent days, but we had some warming sunshine later in the afternoon as the wind began to pick up again.
In the morning Steve went off flying and came back with a lawnmower. Now maybe those two things shouldn't be in the same sentence, but it does remind me of a really charming Percy the Park Keeper book with a flying lawnmower. The boys went to Sunday School and I went to church, then home for a yummy roast lamb dinner with potatoes and yams I dug up yesterday, carrots dug from next door yesterday, leeks from our garden, and sweetcorn from a tin. I think I might get a book out of the library to see if I can grow sweetcorn because we do eat a lot of it. Pudding was a carrot cake. New recipe and well worth repeating.
After lunch we headed out to the house and Edward enjoyed putting the lawnmower together while I did some weeding and Peter and Jonathan rushed around the garden on their bikes. We got a bonfire going for some more wood and dried garden tidyings.
Steve cut the lawns then I went round the edges with the shears. Just as I finished the sun came out so I grabbed the camera and took photos of the flowers already blooming in our garden. There is one area of spring bulbs looking charming at the moment, but also the trees are in bud and the roses have flowers on them. Plus lots of others I can't identify.
Back home for tea - fresh rolls with boiled eggs from the chooks, and the rest of the carrot cake.
The boys were rather stink so they had a nice hot deep bath and soon improved, then we enjoyed the next chapter of our funny bedtime story.
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