Wednesday, 17 June 2026

Red deer

 Spotted this on a big walk with Arwen earlier.  It was a few hundred meters away so apologies for the poor picture quality.  It's getting a bit warm again so don't like taking her out for too long at midday, but there's no other time for it today.  Maybe evening walks might be a better shout when it's hot.




Puzzle solved

 We solved a word puzzle in last night's game.  It was good fun.



Monday, 15 June 2026

More firepit cooking

 I cooked steak fajitas on Sunday evening, I also made oven chicken wings and padron peppers too.







Birthday present

 One of Arthur's friends gave him a racing car kit for his birthday (party last weekend).  I don't know what they were expecting a 6 year old to be able to do...  It's taken April and I 6 hours to part build it over the weekend.  We're now on bag 5/6.  It's pretty impressive, it has model engine in there with pistons that go up and down.  I googled how much it cost and was surprised that it was only £25 in BM.  If this was real lego it would have been £100+



Mmm Ramen

 I made ramon on Sunday for lunch.  I didn't make the actual stock so can't take full credit.  In fact, I forgot to cook the chicken to go with it.  The kids loved it though.




Village Cricket

A slight change of plan on Sunday morning, I took Arthur to his cricket and April too Flo her junior park run. It's a 25 minute cycle.

 

Pizza

 We fired up the pizza oven on Saturday for dinner.   April made the dough, we all chose our toppings and I tried not to set fire to them in the pizza oven.



BBQ on the firepit

 I used the firepit for the first time in ages on Saturday.  It turned out really well.








Strawberry Harvest

 Our first batch of strawberries turned out well





Skateboard set

 I bought Arthur some finger skateboard for Christmas and noticed that he was still playing with them so bought him a skateboarding present.  He's a big fan.