We are back...

.. Having eaten my way across the USA and put on significant weight we are back! We are very lucky people the house sitting tribe were beyond amazing and we have returned to minimal washing, no cleaning to do and all animal and plant life still alive.

The plant life has certainly been kept alive we have returned to food long grass and two foot high weeds.. eeek.. lots to do.. and on day one of my new lawnmower I managed to roll it into a tree stump and bend the blade.. so that's a new blade needed then.. ordered!

So in the emergency I have popped out to but an electric mover to do the bits close to the house.. much lighter and easier to use for sure. I have prioritised the allotment and mowing.. the weeds in the allotment were bigger than the vegetables but all sorted now and I can see vegetables again.

I am beyond gobsmacked about how I left the garden looking like it was just coming to life and then returned to find it green and flowery and really quite bonkers.. Love it..

My work has been cut out for the next few weeks for sure. It is lovely to be hone and it was made even better by all of our cards, letters and pressies from house guests.. they are naughty it was them doing us the favour but it was lovely.. We had 4 sets of house sitters.. Christina and her chums were first and Christina said that they all had the best time.. it was lovely to get her card. Then it was Lucy and Owen and they also had Lucy's Mam to visit.. the card we had from her was so funny saying that she was sitting at work wondering if the woodpecker had been for breakfast and whether Winnie was still running about like a mad thing whilst Lolly sunbathed.. they have clearly been very spoiled of attention these furry chums, Lucy was apparently a whizz on the Aga (Mr W would like to swap me) and she also found the time to make us some lovely coasters .. how lovely. Then came Caroline, Sam and Hilary we had a lovely letter of Caroline telling us all about bad boy Archie killing a chaffinch..Lolly trying to steal sausages destined for the BBQ.. it was lovely to read all about it. Mr W's Mam, Dad and friends brought up the rear and left our house spotless.. I have a lot to live up to now.

We really are lucky, as are the furry and feathery types to have such lovely people in our lives.

OOO and in big news.. we ate our first thing out of the garden.. RADISHES..

The Radishes .. pre salad

weeds and more weeds.. and somewhere in there some turnips.. all now sorted :-)

these tomato's were only 6 inches high when we left .. 

the Wisteria was a stick and now all in bloom .. beautiful 

Everything is so green

My garden.. Wow

Our house.. all dressed in greenery 

wow

allotment without weeds.. and with a lot of rhubarb... Made more jam 

little baskets of bits and bobs for our lovely house sitters :-)