Category: summer

food and Drink · garden stuff · summer

in the garden again

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)23 Comments

Forgive me for banging on about my veg patch again but it really amazes me how quickly things grow at this time of year. I took these pictures a month apart and the difference is huge (the left-hand ones are from May and the right-hand were taken yesterday)

I do get quite excited by the first picking of our fruit and veg. I love these translucent mangetout and they’re all ready to be snapped off and lightly steamed – yum!

Later this week we’ll be able to pick the first of the courgettes and french beans and the strawberries are still going strong.

There are flowers too – I do so love this time of year in the garden!

general stuff · summer

seaside

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)17 Comments

Summer has really arrived here – it’s turned hot and sunny and Amy and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity that came our way last week for a girls only weekend at the seaside. We set off at the crack of dawn on Saturday and arrived with our friends in Walton on the Naze for breakfast.

The day at the beach was perfect and we topped it off with a visit to the pier, fish and chips and an evening at the kids club. It was so nice to get away and relax but lovely to come home again yesterday and see our menfolk who had pottered around the garden all weekend. Although we were only away for 18 hours it felt like a much longer break and I feel very relaxed this morning – hope that feeling lasts a little longer!

crafts & knitting · garden stuff · general stuff · summer

weekend stuff

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)34 Comments

We had a busy weekend with a lot of ballet rehearsals for Amy. There’s only a week to go before her ballet school perform Cinderella at the local theatre and Amy is Cinderella’s shadow (as you might imagine she’s very excited!) So that meant a lot of sitting around for me – not too bad when you’ve got a bag full of crochet to keep you busy! I’m working on lots of different bits at the moment which I hope will one day become a collection of cushions!

There was also a little garden time. Everything is growing like mad and there are loads of strawberries ripening.

We learnt our lesson from last year and picked them quick before the birds or the slugs could tuck into them.

They tasted good!

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PS: the crochet cushions above are all based on the summer garden granny square pattern from Attic24’s blog