Straw bales

This morning we took Maisie for a walk across the fields. What a glorious sight, a freshly combined field full of straw bales, the sign of a year's work completed. ...and something for us to play on.

Stove

It has all been happening at Sunnyside today. Our beautiful new Clearview stove was installed, Uncle John arrived this morning for

some more work in the garden, and the scrap metal man came to relieve us of the enormous pile of rusty metal in our front garden.
The only downside was the discovery of what we suspect to be an underground spring running alongside our outbuilding and right into the area where our extension is planned to go. Not sure how to resolve that one...

All fall down

Today, after many months of anticipation, Uncle John finally arrived with his digger. After a few minutes the garage was no more.


Phase one of operation lawn is complete.

James worked hard all afternoon helping Daddy and Grandpops carry the

wood to the bonfire pile.

Jennifer was more interested in the contents of the puddle at the bottom of our drive.

Lavender

Mark, Jennifer and I took a trip to the lavender nursery today, leaving James next door with Christopher Emma, and a large train track.

Cool

Carry on Camping...

James, Daniel, Bethan and Jennifer had a lovely afternoon playing together. The boys went swimming and then joined the girls and grandparents for a picnic tea in the garden. But the fun didn't stop there. Late this afternoon, the venture scouts' quartermaster's store was raided, and Grandpa returned with this vintage specimen, which is the boys' home for the night. After a couple of hours of talking,

giggling, whispering and general tom-foolery, the boys finally put their heads down and went to sleep. What an adventure!

Bethan


Hurray, the northern Burgesses are here again! This morning we had a girls outing to Lizzie's house for homemade elderflower cordial and rosemary biscuits. Here is my beautiful niece busying around in Lizzie's garden.