it is so woefully late that we haven’t got going with the garden – plan to remedy that this weekend! I have been mostly photoblogging as we have had my family here over easter and so not much time to write, and back t work. my bil brought his new wife [i am fairly sure they are married, tho he hasn't said and it seems rude to ask] who he met in china, so it is a bit of a culture shock for her coming over to the uk. she is a fair bit younger and it must be hard having just husband, who you havne’t spent much time with in the past just lots of internet time and his dead wife’s family to support you. eep. however, hopefully we are being welcoming and friendly and not too intimidating! we played lots of games, tried to cook her fav food [tofu] which she was happy with and assure her she was part of our family too. M and E [nephew and niece] obviously got a bit of adjusting to do, so lots of love given!
We had lots of crafts, lots of games and lots of chilling out with trying to avoid too much individual screen time! Alfie the tortoise had lots of attention which he likes. Mum and dad stayed longer with the kids so we had some evenings of setting world to rights and being family, which was lovely too. I love having family visit 
I do have to say that i also loved having the house back to just us at the end of everyone stay as well 
So now just us. DH is moving on from the 40 bags out to 40 jobs and so has sorted out the medicine cupboard and the ‘pantry of pandemonium’ lol! it looks good now it does make me see how much painting we could be doing tho…