Back in the land of the living

Hello and sorry it has been a while since the last post i have been on nights for two weeks and either sleeping or working pretty much so had no time. I am currently demented with watching big brother so have come to make a post out of the way and left sue to watch people argue and make a fool of themselves on TV.
We are all fine and not really much news from the last couple of weeks. Me and sue went to view Noah's school for his pre school enrolment which was really bizarre as it only seems five mins since he was a baby and all of a sudden someone is explaining what's on his pre school curriculum, how mad. sue even got a bit upset. It is a really nice school though and his teacher is lovely, he will start in September for an afternoon a week to begin with.

Update on the cat and dogs relationship, it has flourished thankfully and they can now be found cuddled near each other sometimes, here is a picture to prove it, Noah still torments him but in a manageable way, he hasnt had to sit on the naughty step for a while anyway. You can also see what an enormous cat jarvis is sat next to phoebe, he is going to be huge. Bless him he is lovely, he just wants to be fussed and sit on someone. Though he does drop the most horrendous farts which put even sue's to shame at times.

Me and Noah went off to windmill farm last week before i started nights for a day out to look at the animals and ride the steam train. we had a cracking day and the weather was lovely, the goats did scare him though at first when we had food for them, he ended up round my shoulders with fear when they all came to be fed, here is a picture of later on when we had built his confidence a little

We have had lovely whether recently and enjoyed being out in the garden we have had the pool out for Noah he loves it and refuses to wear any clothes, i managed to take a photo where he is covering his modesty.
I say we have had lovely weather though it has been raining today but i have just watched the 10 o clock news and the whole of Yorkshire seems to be underwater, they had a months rain in 24 hours, how grim.

Lastly a funny picture of Grandma being terrorised by Noah and his teddies the other day.
Ta Ta for now.

Donkeys and tomato soup

hello - just a quick one to say what we have been up to this week, and an excuse to post some lovely pics of fred.
On Tuesday me and sue took Noah to St Anne's near Blackpool to the sea front to ride the steam train and donkeys.
this is Noah's first donkey ride which he was rather apprehensive about to say the least but we managed to coax him on in the end. he was a mix of terrified and thrilled when it got going bless him.
I cant figure out how to embed the actual video on the blog page (help pam) so here is a link to the google vid site.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8404811498956515127&hl=en-GB


Otherwise we have been doing boring everyday stuff working tidying up and all that.
We have though had to introduce Noah to the naughty step (3rd stair in the house) as a way of telling the little trouble maker off. His first visit was after he squeezed the poor cats head and then sat on him after dragging him across the lounge by his tail. The second and third times on the step were also cat abuse related crimes, he is learning though and hopefully we will get to the point where we can just threaten the step to stop him. I didn't realize how defiant kids can be though a real learning curve.
Any way here are some pictures from the last month ish.

Noah on the prom at grange over sands
Tomato soup al fresco

Proping up a tree.

Here are a couple of the garden i took to post here, there are some people who haven't been home and visited our new house, and because i didn't send everyone a walk through type video as i said i would (sorry) this is to get you sort of up to speed, from a year ago.

This is our veg plot, its not quite finished, only the seat to attach to the blocks left to do now (oh and plant it properly) and a lifetime of weeding, hopefully we should be able to grow a lot of our own veg over the year. We had our first salad yesterday picked from the garden.









This is the view from the bottom of the garden, Pam i need your help with the lawn it looks fine but full of holes, moss, weeds what to do (and dont say flags) anyway we have some lovely rhododendron bushes which are really old and enormous which were a nice surprise as they had passed by the time we moved in last year.