birthdays

My sister, mum and I all celebrate our birthdays in early April, and today we had planned a posh picnic by a stream with all of the children and family. The weather forecast didn't look good so we changed our plans and everyone came to us for cake and tea. Typically it turned out beautiful and sunny! I made nigellas devils food cake, it was very rich but utterly delicious!

The little ball is A's latest completed project

We had a friends children for a few hours too, and hay all played very nicely in the garden for the whole time, only stopping to devour sandwiches and chips, and then the sticky chocolate cake. my sister did not stay long as they are in the middle of a house move, we have benefited from this by being given a nice wooden side unit for our dining area. The storage is useful for bulky mixing bowls and extra crookery, and L has already enjoyed relocating our nature area on to the top. It does look quite pretty though. A neighbour kindly bought me some beautiful spring flowers, picked from her garden, i love daffodils and really muct plant more for our own garden next year.

after everyone had left we went for a quick walk and back to the pub garden for a pimms, very nice it was too. Poor A has school tomorrow as his holidays don't start until Thursday.