Monday, April 05, 2010
- Having weekend guests – my brother Jim, his wife Jo, and their five-year-old Evelyn – makes me appreciate the house all over again – the extra rooms, the space and airiness.
- The girls are delighted to see their cousin Evelyn and spend the weekend running around giggling and devising complicated games.
- We watch Galaxy Quest for the first time in ages. Much hilarity. That was ... a hell of a thing...
- To settle Maggie for a nap she needs but won't take, I lie next to her stroking her hair and watch her fall asleep, then doze next to her for an hour, listening to the excited scampering and shushing on the other side of the wall.
- An Easter egg hunt in the back garden turns up for each delighted little girl a chocolate bunny the size of a table lamp (bounty kindly supplied by Jim and Jo).
- At the end of a long and busy weekend, a quiet and productive hour in the garden as the sun goes down, watering pruning the tomatoes, spraying and deadheading the roses, potting up herbs. The small-leaved mint Rose gave me is flourishing, putting out tiny mauve flowers; it's been promoted to a bigger container; the ambitious wee oregano plant I got from the garden centre has a huge terracotta tub to take over. And a pot of purple sage joins the happy herbs on the brick ledge in the front garden: hopefully it'll be as happy as the others.
- My friend Brian sends me a photo he found while trawling his archives: it's me and Sarah Abbott at Jim's wedding on 5 February 2000, just a couple of weeks before ours. Good gigs both.
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