Mom the Fixer

Today has been a home day because the weather has been inclement, still very windy and grey skies with a little rain in between. Dad and Nick worked in the front garden – they have taken up most of the existing plants (weeds) which had died off, and raised the level of the garden with extra soil lying in the driveway which needed to be used. There was some debate as to what was going to become of the soil, but Nick had plans and those were followed! Mom made soup for supper and actually managed to light the gas cooker by herself. The big joke of the thing was that one of the front plates hadn’t been working for months, and we had been trying to get hold of a new cooker, instead of trying to repair the old one. But lo and behold, mom, without knowing that it wasn’t supposed to be working, lit it and had no problems with it. It’s been working ever since!