Kid sitting

Last night we had a special delivery - Martha and Leo our nephew and neice. The younger nephew, Carlo is with his best friend, and the grown ups (well, my brother and parents) are out canoeing along the River Wye.

Douglas made a really fantastic looking Shepherds pie which the kids and he enjoyed whilst they watched Dr Who. I watched with them but had curry instead :-)

Having thrown them into bed at about 9pm, we went up about an hour later to find they were both still reading!! Lights were turned out at some point, and sleep for all of us ensued.

I fed the cats at about 6am as usual, then after a while went back to bed. Martha got up about 8.. but this photo below was taken at 9am.. a certain Someone had a bit of a lie in lol!

We had a slow morning, watched most of a DVD, then Martha and I vanished off to the cinema to watch "How to train your Dragon" a film about a Viking boy who finds that rather than killing dragons, he has the knack to befriend and train them. It was great :-D

Douglas and Leo went to see "Clash of the Titans" loosley based around the story of Perseus. That started quite a bit later, and they went by tram, so they didnt get home until 4pm!

Martha and I had a bite to eat at Flaming Dragon after our film. We ate some rice and noodles, then for desert, Martha turned into an orange eating monster!

When we got home, it was quite a nice sunny day, so she and I went into the conservatory and planted some lavender, some chillies and some feverfew. The feverfew had its Latin name on, and I thought it was another type of chilli, so now we have chillies one end and feverfew at the other end of the trough - we had a good laugh over that :-D

We seived some compost, (ok.. we riddled it) and Martha was very careful to rescue all the worms to put back into the compost head with the stuff that hasnt quite turned into nice soil yet.

We sewed some nasturtium seeds on the bank at the back of the garden, a row of leeks in the veg patch and watered it all in.

I hope that my parents and their dad have had a good day.. hopefully I will be able to post some lovely photos from their day later in the week.

Kids are being picked up after tea.. we have had a lovely day with them!!