Messing about in Boats (and on bikes and in Parks)
We’ve been so fortunate with the weather here in the UK; it was gloriously hot all weekend long in Kent. We certainly made the most of it and did the typical Brit thing of dragging out the barbecue (or in our case buying a new one) as soon as the sun comes out. In fact we had a barbecue two nights in a row - well hell, it’s not often you get such great barbecue weather here in good old Blighty and even rarer to get it over an entire weekend.
Saturday was spent pottering around, doing washing, mowing the lawn and sitting out in the garden, and I planted up some herbs in pots. Let’s hope I don’t kill them like I do every other plant that has the misfortune to be owned by me. I think these herbs stand more of a chance though as I’m going to be able to get some good, and well needed, advice over on my forums. We’ve now got a forum dedicated to growing your own produce; 'The Veg Patch', which is great. Hopefully this will mean that my herbs last me throughout the summer and perhaps even beyond.
On Sunday we were invited out on a trip on my Brother and Sister-in law’s new boat. We had a lovely morning sailing in the River Medway and we got to spend time with our baby niece which was just wonderful. Next we headed back towards home to visit my cousin, his wife and their little girl, our gorgeous God Daughter. We all rode our bikes to a local park where we sat down with ice lollies and then we headed to the swing park. I’m not sure who had more fun, our God daughter or me! I went up (and down) the slide with her, bounced on the sea saw with my cousin’s wife (yes we are both over 30!) and had a go on the swings (I should add at this point that we were alone in the park so not depriving any other children or making a spectacle of ourselves in front of anybody but us!). I hadn’t done that in years and it brought me right back to my childhood. It was one of those days that make you feel warm and smiley inside. Just spending time with loved ones and enjoying the great outdoors on a beautiful day. That's what memories are made of.
12 comments:
aack! Jealous of your boat trip AND garden! TG for a bit of sunshine.
What a wonderful to enjoy this great weather we're having. Good luck with your herb garden!
That sounds like a fun day! How nice to go back to your childhood in a play park.
Hi Julia
Nice to see you in Olive this week, I was in the same section too covering the North East!
All the best
David
I'm just contemplating planting a few herbs myself. Yours look fantastically lush and healthy but I guess in this glorious weather anything would thrive.
One tekky question which I can't seem to find an answer to on Blogger is how do you upload multiple images? When I try to upload more than one it simply appears at the top of the post.
Pixie - TG indeed! Looks like we're going to get rain by the end of the week though :-(
Thanks Sylive, I'll need the luck!
Toffeeapple - I highly recommend it!
Hi David, it was great to see you in the article too! Thanks for stopping by.
Hi Fiona, I always upload my pictures to flickr.com and copy and paste the HTML for them straight into my blog post in among the text. I'm not sure if that's clear, feel free to drop me a mail if you not.
Sounds like you had an amazing weeekend:D
Interesting boat trip and nice shot. What camera are you using? I plan to buy one in near future. I did post up a lot of interesting things in my blog recently, do come and have a visit!
Love the herbs you've got there! I've only gotten little pots of herbs back into my kitchen after the winter killed most of them off haha... I really should plant them out in the garden. And what a lovely boat trip.
I love your little herb garden. I have one myself and i can´t imagine living without it.
I´m glad that you had such a great day al fresco.Kisses from Portugal.
Thanks for the tip, Julia. I'll give that a try. blogger certainly doesn't seem to want to upload pix from my mac anywhere but at the top of the post.
Hi alvincheng - I'm using a Cannon 400D
Thanks for all your comments and hello to you all!
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