Saturday n Sunday

The weather was lovely over the weekend, so at last we were able to attack our lawn with the mower. It was very hard work as it has been a few weeks since we have had a dry enough spell to cut it. Poor lawn looks hacked rather than mowed now, but I will go over it again soon, to tidy it up.

We also managed to do some weeding, but they grow so quickly its hard to keep up with them! I think this Autumn I will get some weed free membrane for the veg patch, and hope that the convolvulous etc does not poke its way up through it!!

Saturday evening we had invited our friend Dangerous Dave to come have a BBQ with us. He arrived at about 7, and we had a very pleasant evening. We have decided that he and Douglas must be twins (or at least brothers) as they have so much in common! Examples. of this.. . they are both food snobs and adore cooking with top quality ingredients, both self confessed Grumpy Old men who enjoy shouting at the TV, both say "Yes Dear" to their partners.. common taste in music.. and the list goes on!!

On Sunday we went to John Lewis in town in search of a new washing machine, as ours, after ten years hard labour, has very nearly given up the ghost and refuses to do a wash without the door being pressed, and the cycle nudged on at increasingly frequent intervals.

We found a perfectly good one in the Clearance section. There is nothing wrong with it.. it was a cancelled order, so that arrives on Wednesday, when the old one will become Weee and will be taken away! Hmm lets hope they have a Waste Carrier Licence I will phone John Lewis later this morning and find out!