Looking...

...backwards...

Thoughts from the christening:

• I found this picture on Pinterest the night before the christening so I got up at 5am on the morning of it to replicate it for my Godchildren.  (They love me calling them that!)  I decided to find some photos of them when they were much younger rather than how they are now.  I think they were pleased. 

• The food was just the right amount and hugely appreciated by everybody.  Phew.  Fancy trying a new quiche/flan?  This one was delicious.

• It wasn't so appreciated when three people shrieked in unison "eek, there's a rat".  Ooops.  The downside of having the chicken coop near the deck.

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• On the subject of chickens, I lost my two lovely new girls to a fox last week.  I'm trying not to feel guilty as I loved the fact that they free-ranged around my garden.  Flossie is lonely and has been following Pip or me around like a lost sheep.  I will get a couple more once I am back from my summer holiday.  I'm not enjoying buying eggs for the first time in nearly four years.

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• I took my youngest nephew and niece to Kew last week.  It was far from the sedate stroll around that I am used to.  I hardly took any photographs either as someone commandeered my camera.

• I took them up on the Rhizotron and Xstrata Treetop Walkway.  They ran round several times while I clung to the rail, not enjoying the height and the wobbliness.  It was good to get a different perspective though.

• Looking back up was fun too.

• As was playing on logs.

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Looking forward...

• to making a quilt each for the boys for their christening presents.  I had to give them an IOU as it was all a bit last minute.  I'm loving the joys of chain-piecing.

• To tasting the first ripe tomatoes from the garden.  Warm from the sun, together with perhaps some mozzarella and avocado.

• And a holiday in the sun sometime soon and hopefully balmy days of August for the rest of the summer holidays.

What are you looking forward to?