Archaeology, Tractors and Bits of Old Wood

Sometimes the bottom of our garden is magical!

Making a lettuce, courgette and yellow tomato salad for Papa's dinner.

No stabilisers: it's official.

Mummy packed up last year's work, ready for storage.

Sweet workshop.

Meeting the kiddies' newest cousin!  How blessed we are to have so many!

Cousins...

...and friends.

Ballet Girl finished the whole Harry Potter series in two months.

Picking rosemary for a chicken dinner.

My sailors.  

Uncle T is a carpenter and we get some awesome bits of wood to play with.

An archaeological event at our local English Heritage site. 

Technology at its best: uncovering the secrets under the grass

Metal detecting.

Soldier School and a Den in the Woods

Our local library is one of our favourite places.  Over the summer it's holding all sorts of activities and we are booked into a whole bunch of them!

Star Wars and popcorn.

Cars and Power Rangers

Panda Girl helped out on a friend's shopping expedition and was rewarded with ice cream.  Yay!

We spent a great day catching up with friends from the Caribbean.

And there was reading.  Lots of reading.

My Dad's Birthday was this week.  His grave is blossoming with beautiful flowers and I added a vase full from my garden.  Happy Heavenly Birthday, Daddy :)

We all spent a fun afternoon at two 40th Birthday Parties one after the other at the same venue...

...meaning this little man spent SEVEN hours on the bouncy castle....

...and the girls got to hang out a make loom bands with their friends.

Yesterday the children attended Soldier School at a nearby stately home.  They practised rifle drill, spent HOURS on the assault courses and checked out the nurses' station which had some incredible artefacts from WW1.

Washing out the bin for Mummy.  Good boy.

Hot, sunny afternoons are for playing in the woods with friends :)