Sunday, February 11, 2007

We have a shed!

Yep, our garden is finally complete with the erection of a magnificent 6x4 foot shed. It even has a window. They were due to come to put it up for us Saturday morning so Ellen and Dan came round to help us choose the right spot. The best spot was of course where the compost heap and a tree stump was, both had to go before the shed arrived.
Reluctantly, I put my wellies and garden gloves on, Ellen took Leon for a walk so I couldn't use him as an excuse 'he needs feeding etc' (darn). We put the compost heap spade by spade into bags and Dan attacked the stump with a pick axe, successfully removing it in record time.
The shed was running about 4 hours late so the Grandparents babysat while we whizzed into town for some fresh ostrich and a bit of kale. The shed was up well before dark, I made some delish rock cakes with Ellen's recipe and a rhubarb crumble.
The rhubarb crumble ended up as dessert today (Sunday) with custard after a Toby kale special (boerenkool met worst) for our guests, the Kelmans. Even Elizabeth enjoyed it. After failing to get the boys off to sleep (we did manage to ignore them while we ate lunch) we decided a walk would get them off to sleep. It didn't work so well for Matthew and Elizabeth, fortunately for us Leon did drop off, I woke him for a feed just before 5pm. This gave us time to wash up and complete the chores list before another couple of exciting episodes of Meercat Manor.

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