Sunday blogging

It's Sunday morning so it must be swim-blog time! We've got Mum and Dad coming over for roast lunch today, followed by a trip to Haig and a chance to discuss final arrangements before what will hopefully be completion next week. Should provide for some "interesting" but
productive discussion.
Garden clearance is coming on well - in fact you can pretty much see the garage from the house now - the first time that's been the case in a few years methinks (judging by the size of some of the branches and trunks I was sawing through yesterday).
When I was there on Tuesday evening three of the four eggs had hatched into little bundles of fluff with open beaks pointing skywards. But yesterday the nest was completely empty. I can't believe that they would have been ready to fly the nest in such a short time. Seems as though this is an example of the harsher side of nature and that the local cats may have enjoyed an extra meal. I just hope that I hadn't contributed to their downfall by removing some of the brambles and making the nest more accessible. If I did then I'm really sorry.
Sawing away yesterday I did for the cheap saw that we bought from Asda so we're going to pop in and request a replacement on our way back from swimming. Whilst we're there I'm going to ask the pharmacist if they have any whizzy new hay fever remedies this year. Mine is just terrible at the moment. No doubt the garden work isn't helping but I don't think that is the main cause. Nicky will vouch for the fact that I'm a miserable bugger when I'm sneezing every 30 seconds!

(Note - Sunday blogging not sent until Monday as didn't synchronise my ipod when I got back! And I can confirm that our discussions were productive and we should definitely be on for completion on 5 May.)

Easter Eggs

Well the Easter holidays are just about done - Jake is tucked up in bed ready to go back to school tomorrow morning, and we've had a pretty busy time of it, even if I was back to work from the Tuesday after Easter.
Today we've been round at Haig Avenue, and clearance is coming on well in the garden. I went round in the morning whilst Nicky and Jake were at swimming, and then we were all there after lunch (roast with John and Margaret - they are off to the airport at some ungodly hour in the morning to get a plane to Barcelona to start their cruise).

Still, we had a bonfire at Haig yesterday evening, after we'd been to Wickes to buy a new incinerator.
The Pitt family came to visit yesterday, and I took Kate and Phil to see Haig. At least they can now see the project that we've taken on at the "before" stage.

Other things we've been up to during the Easter holidays:

• eating far too much chocolate, of course


• Jake having friends over for a sleepover (good timing as we were able to wedge our old mattress into Jake's room for some of them to sleep on, as our lovely comfy new mattress arrived on the same day - Barley certainly likes it!)


• a trip down to the seaside at Dymchurch for a play in the penny arcades and games on the beach
  
  
  
  


• a day trip to France for stocking up on wine. The Euro exchange rate may not be much good at the moment, but the wine's still pretty cheap!

By the way, the egg picture at the top - a nest found today in one of the trees at Haig Avenue!