the fact that I’m on the blog again that is. I’m probably only on here because I feel sorry for the poor folks who check in every day 
I have various reasons for not blogging all summer, laziness is probably the biggest, followed closely by procrastination.
Anyway we’re on the last few days of the school holidays now so here is a brief overview of our summer.
We headed off right on the last day of school and had a wonderful holiday in Scotland for the third year in a row. We shared part of our holiday this year with our friends and it was a blessing to have company from home as well as some time on our own.
Sleeping in the tent went extremely well and I was in good form the whole time.
As predicted the pregnancy has flown in during the rest of the summer and at this stage we have just under 2 weeks to go or who knows how long really….
No idea where the blog goes after that but if you have been following faithfully you can find me on facebook for more frequent updates and holiday photos etc.
On our return home in the middle of July we had to make tracks in the kitchen – the black-currants needed harvested and turned into jam. We also set to a course of baking for the kids (or rather for the mum to work out what they can be left to make on their own in the kitchen).
No 1 son has become the king of the bread-maker which is a great help. He’s also mastered Granola with a little help from his brother
No 1 daughter bought this book on her holidays with some of her money and we’ve made loads of the recipes here and a few she can do on her own – Results!!
She also got stuck into piano lessons and cross stitch and is really quite keen, we’ll see how that all goes……
Harvesting the veggies, blanching and freezing was mostly done at the beginning of August but those Courgettes, they just keep on coming…
Some jobs are just better than others…..
Looking back over the summer holidays, there was undoubtedly loads more I would like to have accomplished especially outdoors but with the weather not having been so favourable we had to change some of our activities.
Over the next few weeks I’m planning to make more jam (Rhubarb & Ginger), perhaps get some of those outside jobs done before the winter days set in, redecorate the study (not me personally!!) oh and yes, have a baby ………….
The question is ”So where Do you put all your books when you’re decorating the study”??????
