Well the Easter holidays are over, and I can at last breathe - and write. Over the last two weeks we've had 21 visitors and zero trips to A&E - which, statistically speaking, is very successful in my book.
The hectic pace was relieved in the second week when my eldest two were packed off for a trip to Grandma's. However, I did pay back my mother-in-law's generosity by laying her a new lawn in return.
This is actually the third lawn I have laid in this garden and I have to admit I was intoning Lady Bracknell in my head. "To lose one lawn may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." Still, returfing still seems a doddle compared to three days of childcare and she has promised me this one will be the last.
I would show you before and after shots in the style of some magazine makeover slot. However, the turf was of the curled-up-sandwich, end-of-this-week's-supply, diy-chain variety, so I'm not sure, short-term, if it actually counted as an improvement.
Still, what I can show you is a fantastic new use for children in the garden. They make the most excellent 'tampers'. Stick one each end of a plank and tell them to jump like crazy. They loved it, the lawn loved it and they slept like logs. Who needs a trampoline!
Are they doing Easter jump?... you are very productive indeed to come to the third lawn.... cheers! ~ bangchik
Posted by: bangchik | April 20, 2009 at 12:42 PM
What a lovely picture of delightful children brings back happy memories of when my daughters were younger and days in the garden. Now 28 and 29 respectively they both have the gardening bug even the eldest who used to be so dismissive has an enviable garden. Something must have rubbed off somewhere enjoy the time while they are growing up it seems hard at times but passes quickly.
I remember saying to a friend one day that I was mean as the girls didn't have a sand pit, she said why would they need a sand pit when they have all that garden to dig in.
Posted by: Joanne | April 21, 2009 at 02:11 PM