Garden Day

Nick took our car to the garage first thing this morning for a long-overdue repair of the starter motor.  We were unsure of how long it would take, so I rearranged my studio hours and spent the day at home.  My plan was to clean the house (still hadn't managed to really do that properly during the holidays), but when I reached the back door I was thoroughly distracted by the warm breeze and excessive dirt and got stuck into sweeping the back entrance, which led to sweeping cobwebs off the windows, which led to weeding the courtyard gardens, at which point Nick arrived home so he got involved in some weeding and pruning too; the boys also got busy with the fork in the back garden...then there was some laying of weedmat in a bed, followed by more weeding in the front garden and the removal of some large and abominable shrubs...by about 5 pm I was exhausted.  The weather was gloriously co-operative - sunny and somewhat on the hot side, which was a change from the grey skies and cold winds we've been having of late.  

The boys mucked about on the keyboard for a while as well, and of course there was rugby to be played outdoors too.

And sadly, the house is still not clean!