crafts & knitting · garden stuff · general stuff

snippets from the last week

Highlights from my week…

watching a small spider create a work of art (and yes, that is actually sunshine sparkling off the strands of web) – summer has arrived here at last.

delighting in the beauty of flowers beginning to open

smiling at Toby having fun in the sun, and laughing at the collection of toys that have to go everywhere with him – it takes him a couple of trips to move them all each time!

And in between looking after home and family I’ve been sitting in the shade at the end of the garden and trying to finish off the pattern for the little pouch that I promised all of you lovely people back in April! It’s still in progress but hopefully will be done soon!

It’s been mostly a happy, relaxing week now that summer has arrived properly. Hope you can say the same for your week too.

crafts & knitting · garden stuff · general stuff

snippets from the last week

getting up at 4.40am to drop Amy off for a school day trip to France

then coming back home and crocheting until the boys woke up

loving all the growth in the garden, rainy summers = happy flowers

anticipating the first of our homegrown raspberries, gradually growing fat and juicy on the bush

and enjoying eating them for breakfast!

Hope your week has had some happy snippets too x

garden stuff · summer

growth

We’ve still been having a very mixed bag weather-wise here. Not only have the alternate showers of rain and spells of sun been good for all the wildflowers, they’ve also been great for the garden and my little herb wall that I planted earlier in the year has really filled in. It’s actually become a bit of a herb jungle and I need to get snipping and drying some shoots. A month ago it looked like this…

and now it looks like this…

Fruit is doing well too. Strawberries…

Raspberries…

and apples…

…are all swelling nicely and I am looking forward to a good harvest later in the year (if I can keep the slugs at bay – there seems to be an army of them this year!)