The big clean-up
After nine and a quarter hours of almost unbroken sleep, Baby B sprang awake and leapt back into action, and R and I found ourselves on full-scale Boy Duty once again. Which would have been fine if either of us … Continued
Summertime…
… and the living is easy. The Boy Wonder has come to the Shire sans parents, to stay with his maternal oldies overnight. I engineered this trip on hearing that an evening’s babysitting was on offer, because I want to … Continued
Common Blue
I’d wanted her to be a Brown Argus (which we do get in this village, though I don’t remember ever seeing one in the garden), and for a while I thought she was – largely because she was extremely skittish … Continued
Razzle dazzle
Family weekend day two: a long hot one, spent mainly in the garden. We carried the kitchen table outside and put it under the gazebo, and had a kind of rolling buffet through the afternoon and evening. People came and … Continued
Fluid dynamics
Family weekend day one: helping Grandma water the patio pots, and learning some interesting things about the way water behaves under pressure. The extra = the upshot. Word of the day: “Uh-oh!”
Men at play
Poor Baby B was suffering with yet another nursery-spread infection today. If he hasn’t achieved immunity to every single rhinovirus on the planet by the time he’s five, it won’t be for lack of trying. But despite the fact that … Continued
Gently smiling jaws
R and I are busy, busy, busy right now, with the family coming to stay at the weekend, so I didn’t have much time today to search the garden for invertebrates. I can say two things quite confidently though: we … Continued
Dragon day
After all the moaning I’ve been doing about the dearth of dragons around here this year, today turned out to be a Very Good Day Indeed. R and I were tidying the garden this afternoon, in preparation for the family … Continued