We’ve had a few lovely sunny days, and I have had a nice, relaxing time.

On Friday, mum, the boys and I went for a walk around our local lake, it was a bit cloudy, but it was nice to be out.  We spotted the resident heron.

We stood for ages watching this part of the lake because the fish seemed to be going mad.  They were splashing about all over the place, and they were huge.  My mum asked a passing fisherman what they were doing and apparently they were spawning and they were Carp.  We’d never seen anything like it, but it proves there really is fish in the lake, we thought all the fisherman were just there for a rest.  I tried to get a photo of one of the fish splashing on the surface, but I wasn’t really quick enough.

A Spawning Carp

If you enlarge the photo you can just see the fins above the water.

We stayed for lunch at mum and dad’s, and we were treated to mum’s first crop of potatoes she’d dug up the day before.  They were gorgeous.  After lunch mum and I went to one of our local shopping streets, Albany Road, whilst dad took the boys to Roath Park Lake (which I’ve blogged about before).  Albany Road is a really good place for charity shop shopping, there’s about ten of them.  I managed to buy a pair of cropped jeans in the very first one, and mum bought a pair of M&S jeans which still had the labels on – and they fitted her!  I also bought a couple of glass items to paint, and a few books for the boys.  A very succesful day.  The boys had a great time at the lake, apparently Oliver walked a lot of the way, and had great fun going up and down the big slide.  He also tried stroking the geese, which I don’t think were very keen on.  My dad treated them to ice creams too.

Saturday, I had a lovely lay in, before doing our usual Tesco shop.  I spent most of the afternoon in the garden, cutting the grass.  It wouldn’t have taken too long, except I had to try and clear all the stones and twigs and other stuff the chickens had kicked up onto the grass from the borders.  It does look much better now though, although I’m having an on-going battle with my strimmer.  Once finished I let the chickens back out to enjoy the sun.  They’ve chosen a spot in my border for their dustbath and have created a huge hole, if they go any further down they’ll be below the level of the grass.

Squeak

And Action!

Working in the dust

Sunday, I got up early and went to Church.  We had no organist today, and I always think it sounds so much nicer without it, you can actually hear the singing, it was lovely.  I called into mum’s on the way back as I had to collect something, ended up stopping for a cup of tea with her and my grampy, then I got a lift home along with a load of green bean and tomato plants.  I’m off to plant them up in my front garden as soon as I’ve finished here.

When I got back I discovered our neighbour is selling his house, the sign went up this morning.  Although it was lying on the floor when I saw it, hubby has since discovered our neighbour was fuming because he didn’t want a sign so he took it down again.  So anyone want to buy a house in a quiet cul-de-sac with lovely neighbours?

Hubby is now (finally) hoovering the car, and me and the boys just had our lunch sat outside.  Oliver managed to conquer the climbing frame all on his own, much to my amazement.

I think he was a monkey in a former life.