the weather has been delightful, SB has been at holiday orchestra and had great fun there, also staying at the deependers for 2 nights, which she loved, tho says A was very hot as tended to use SB as a pillow – lol! BB has mostly pottered around in imaginative games. I have mostly migrained, and when not migrained, been at work. So actually, the gardening blog looks fairly busy, but here is pretty empty!
However, although the holiday spirit has continued, various non-gardeny things have happened 
BB has done a fair bit of reading, including reading v ably a level 2 book to me. She is pretty chuffed about this She and I also did a bit of french – a lucie chat book and discussed the weather and various fruits, and read the farm through time book together. All lying on a rug in the shade in the garden. Bliss
When SB returned we did some watercolour paintings of flowers. SB started hers off, decided to just do blobs and add the detail with black felt tip, and has never returned, and BB had multiple strops and disasters as it didn’t come out perfectly and exactly as she saw it in her head. I tried to help, and made matters worse, and in the end left her too it and did some gardening. when i returned she had happily tried out SB’s technique, thought it unsuccessful, but was happy enough. She finally let me show her what i had envisaged [again a mistake to actually envisage something!] and demonstrate it, and so spent a while happily doing that until the colours all went wrong. At which point we decided we had painted enough
Today we did a bit more painting tho – crazy colours with acrylics on the tomato plastic pots. fab and fussless
mmm, lots of watching harry potter, playing sylvanians, making mud pies in the veg patch etc etc BB bought me some lovely tulips, and SB made a lovely dinosaur mosaic pic [and has spent a fair bit of today being a ‘research scientist’ tho i’m not allowed to know what!
What BB was particularly delighted about tho was the arrival of a little cello. She has done lots of practice and is v v happy
Also today, we had some of the spare plants potted up on the drive with a home made sign and honesty box. The proceeds are going to the local library. We did well, as there was 4.80 in the pot – we just asked for donations.we sold 3 tomatoes [sungold], 2 peppers [jalapeno] , 2 pots of 2 cauliflowers [violet queen]. We are in a relatively good spot, where ppl often park to go to the local shops, and the library is volunteer run, so ppl do like to help it out.We are pretty happy with that
