Alfresco II

Anders suggested that we eat outside because it was such a lovely evening. Of course I was going to photograph it, but of course the boys will humour me!

My lovely garden has returned having been re-turfed, and the grass is growing so is settling.

Who would have thought that Carly who is looking so majestic was one of the culprits of the lawn's destruction!

On the menu was Salmon, Spinach & Beetroot salad and Anders & Dexter also had baked beans!

Dexter clearly enjoyed his, as did Anders & I

So he will grow big and strong - yey!

plants are a growin.......

This is our evergreen Clematis and it is a flowering one. It sits at the back door to the balcony, and I put it there as I thought it would grow and make a pretty wind breaker - still needs to do a lot of filling out though.

And here are some lettuce leaves! I bought these in the supermarket and planted them in the basket as I thought it might be nice to have fresh salad leaves grown by me - well they have taken, quite a surprise as I really don't have green fingers.

It looks so pretty, almost seems a shame to eat them, but eat them I will or else the birds will!!!

Trinkets & Baubles in the garden!

Well that is one way of looking at them anyway! When we built our extension a few years ago and did up the garden, we decided to add some objects of interest into it. This stone Chinese Lion sits outside our back door.

We saw this rickshaw too and it was "on sale", not that that was a surprise as can't see it being the first thing people would rush to buy, but we did as we had a place for it!

It is a fantastically bright colour and sits under our Ash tree. The area around it we thought needed something of interest put in it!

It is a great cobalt blue colour.

And here are our two Gnomes, Napoleon & Attila, wonder if they are plotting battles in the garden at night (and they look so innocent but their names say something else!)......