I gave Tolii my old Panasonic Lumix FZ5 camera back in May. He’s been taking photos off and on with it for a little while. Its great to see the world through his eyes…

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It was a wonderfully sunny and warm Saturday. We spent the entire afternoon outside in our garden after returning from the swim lessons.
Out came the water squirters and model canal. The kids also helped mummy with some planting of spring flowers around the garden — and watering them (use your imagination).
Of course, what [...]

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About The Place…
The National Trust’s Mottisfont Abbey Garden, House and Estate is a great place to frolic on a summer’s day with the kids. They even have “under the stars” (i.e. open air) theatre on some days during the year (although we’ve [...]

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The first daffodils came out for St.Valentine’s Day this year!
And with Mother’s Day this Sunday all daffodils in our garden are blooming.

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Earlier this month, Tristan (Tosha’s friend from nursery) came over with his older sister Autumn. Everyone had a blast playing around our house; no more so than Autumn who directed everyone to start washing all our stepping stones in the garden.
The thought was well placed, but not unfortunately, the water. Buy, hey, what [...]

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The unseasonally wet weather has benefited our garden of sunflowers!
Grandpa measured the tallest one at 10ft!

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Tolii helped mummy pick the cherries from our cherry tree today. A few got eaten along the way!
Its been quite a cool summer so far this year - just 18C on some days and lots (!) of rain. No flooding here, but lots up in the north of the country.
In spite of this [...]

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Our garden has its first daffodils in bloom! Around town, there were some on that snowy February day a couple weeks ago.

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