Or, what we did on our holidays..................

The perfect Easter break..............a weekend of backbreaking slog in a hot Cornish garden........ably assisted by a mutant blackbird, an interested robin
and assorted slow-worms that had been living a peaceful undisturbed existence in the disused veggie beds. Fiona watched all this with horror convinced that we must be hating every minute of it and trying to make us go and look at the sea, but there was just too much to do, discovering the much loved garden that lay under all the brambles and nettles............. The brambles and nettles did not give up without a fight, by the time we left I looked as if I'd been locked in a room with 25 Kilkenny cats, but we had uncovered several more veg beds, released one of the apple trees, tidied some of the borders and uncovered lots of carefully planted treasures in the beds near the pond. Of course Carrie managed to fall in the pond and give the newts a fright............we also found an indignant toad snuggled in the undergrowth.............but we've completely uncovered the little stair down into the back of the veg garden that was totally overgrown. Lots more to do of course, but three days of the Mad Gardening Squad has certainly made a difference, and we jolly well deserved that roast pork dinner..............we also enjoyed the traditional English barbecue which consists of several shivering people with coats on eating sausages in the rain................