And so it begins......

Onyer

Spring is well and truly here or so it seems.

T-shirts are on and heavens to Betsy I almost went for the shorts drawer yesterday it was that warm, indeed on Saturday Percy Jerome Lucy Southwellski (left), or Onyer (Uncle Luke) as he is known to little Coco, and I had to have a siesta in the afternoon.  But we did get some of the outstanding jobs done.

Are they King Edwards? No, they're mine!

The potatoes are in, nice and deep ready to miss the snow on April 7th, but not so deep that they forget which way is up!

We've planted four times as many as last year and there are more to go in so this year, hopefully, they'll last us a bit longer.

Peppers! Yum!

Coco and I have continued to sow seeds, and having learnt our lesson last time we now only get one packet out at a time.  The Tomatoes and Peppers are sown and starting to come through already, although we do appear to have a small mouse problem however the remedy to this is a work in progress.

Tomatoes! More Yum!

We have many other seeds well and truly into the germination and first stages of development race.

The weather really has been wonderful, and at both ends of the day the skies have been stunning with rich red sunsets only outdone by beautiful misty sunrises, even Nanny Southwellski made a brief dash to the window to see this one!

Hockwold sunrise.

And talking of beautiful things, Nanny Southwellski had a birthday yesterday.  Coco and I made a cake, we did wash our hands before we started and very nice it turned out too.

It did take a couple of goes to put the candles on with the holder downwards and the wicks upwards but we got there.

1-2-3 Nanny,   BLOW!!!!!

The icing was all Coco's own work and much grunting and squeezing went into getting the icing out of the tubes.

There was also a bit of icing taste testing that had to be done, wouldn't want Nanny's cake not to taste nice would we?

Luke and Kirsty were home for the weekend and Little Nanny Mero, who for reasons best known to Coco will now be known as Big Nanny Mero, came over too.

The reasons my life is so good!

Uncle Robin and Aunty Angela dropped by for a cuppa and a piece of cake, they also added to the choir for the singing of Happy Birthday!

We had a lovely day!

So, hosepipe ban on the way, we are looking at more butts and will have to do what we can to keep the veggies sufficiently supplied with water.

Seems a little strange that we have some northern parts of the country with more water than they can shake a stick at, and yet this area which has annual rainfall comparable with Israel sends water down to Essex and North London.

Hosepipe ban? I've still got another week!

Is it really that hard to divert water down from the North?

Well, we'll do what we can and what we can't do won't happen.

But anyway, it's sunny and warm and who cares!