Sunday 3 June 2007

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.



1 comment:

Pam said...

I LOVE your garden! And pix of Noah are lovely - what a little stunner he is.
To embed the video code - copy the HTML embed code from your Google video. Paste it right into the box that you post into on Blogspot and Bob's your Uncle!