The hedgerows are teeming with life, most of it edible, we have so far (apart from the tree load of apples which our garden supplies) blackberries – loads, hedge garlic (still prolific) raspberry leaves for tea, haws for Haw-sin sauce and a few other bits and pieces. In a few weeks the elderberries will be ready, the damsons up the lanes will start to turn and it will be all hands to the preserving pan, if only the apples would stop falling long enough for us to pick some to put away!! The wheat is in, but not processed quite yet, it will have to be milled soon, ready for the beginning of October and the coming of the inevitable Harvest Thanksgivings. The Cat has started complaining about the weather, but it’s not quite time for the log burner, which reminds me to call the log man and have...
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When not to answer the phone!

When deconstructing a greenhouse of course!!

: Tea Break

: More Tea, this time with Cake

: Lunch

2nd Tea Break with a slice of Sarah’s ‘wake cake’ mmm

At Lunch, it was 9 for no loss, (panels down with no broken glass!!)

All down by the close of play, still no broken glass, what is going wrong here??

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A week of Fun and Games!

I’m sure balloon modeling will come in useful at some point while ordained, but even if not, it keeps the kids happy. That’s what I’ve been doing for the past week. Our eldest daughter’s birthday was on Sunday, usual party etc, bouncy castle etc. Oh can you make balloon models she says, yeah course I can, good, here you are then! And so it was that I got started with this strange hobby, not been going long, but its really quite addictive, almost as bad as the Sudoku puzzles. There must be a place for modeling balloons for kids during a service, just have to brush up on lions and arks etc!

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