It was so hot today and the baby was still under the weather from teething/virus that I decided to stay at home and garden with just one trip out after school to GP for baby. I got "curry pasty mix" out of the freezer thanks to my 4 year old's prompting and let it de-thaw on the garden table. Later I made some shortcrust pasty and we had a pasty and salad picnic in our garden. The kid's had got really excited with the paddling pool out under their climbing frame slide to toboggan into. I realised that none of day had been especially wild, just lazy and hanging around mainly so I got Nicola Davis's "My first Nature Book" out for a treat at bedtime. Love the spring tadpole section. My bilingual children were stumped when I asked them what a tadpole was in French: it is
têtard. I have bribed them to remember and repeat it another time to their french father.
What I am most excited about in June, especially in this warm weather is the abundance and blooming of roses. I am very excited that most of the bare root roses in our new front garden bed look just ready to bloom in time for father's day.
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| Albertine Rose rambling in our garden |
Baby Art chose to help me in the garden today. I have a lot of plants and seedlings placed temporarily above our well cover and he likes nothing more to try and get them out of the pots!
I have started to plant out seedlings in earnest. I felt very happy to get this small frame of runner beans set up.
First Large skippers have emerged on Speltham Down. Had to go back to photo and identify as I wasn't sure if they were small skippers or not as it's a year since I last saw any, especially as one I spotted had deformed wings. Aaggh! Butterflies!
On the return trip with camera and 3 boys accompanying me. Jamie (6) my oldest pointed out this ladybird.
I let them choose their own routes and they found their usual tree swing and did "rocket blasters" on it.
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| The skipper butterfly that confused me! |
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