The days when Boo refuses to nap are looong ones, often unravelling towards the end. Today was such a day. It had started so well with smiles and laughter during our first swimming lesson at the local pool, a significant achievement since our last visit to a pool had consisted of 20 minutes sitting on the side whilst I tried to cajole Boo to enter the water. She had refused and we had got dressed. So all was going swimmingly (ouch, sorry!), until nap time. After the nap time debacle, I suspected things would be going pear-shaped at the five o clock witching hour, which indeed they did, with one of us lying face down on the kitchen floor screaming, the other one only wishing she could. But in the window of relative calm, we needed garden time to bring us to a place of peace.
I love love love having a garden, especially having not had one for the last 18 months. Today I was enjoying surveying this corner of our garden:
It might not look like much, and unfortunately I don't have a 'before' image, but you have to take it from me that this represents a real achievement. The slope was completely overgrown and we've cleared it all out and mulched it. I have hopes of doing some planting here, although some of it is quite shady and pretty rooty under the trees.
And oh yes the sunshine is back. Thank you!
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