After leaving Wales I had a really excellent (but too short) time in Ireland. First up, a tour of what mum and dad are up to in the garden… They’re subdividing the garden and going to build their own wee house.. should be great once it’s done.

They’re keeping the vegge patch! :) Which is excellent news… It was lovely to see their plans, though I think fortunately I spend so little time at “home” now that I feel distant enough to not find it utterly sad and disturbing.

Mum has spent years apparently cultivating mistletoe.. apparently it’s really hard to get it to take, it likes to be on the same type of tree that it was taken from. Anyway, finally she’s made one of the pear trees get infected!

Mum and Dad themselves are as busy as ever.. Dad still heavily involved with the Mountains of the Moon University in Uganda which he helped get started. I did manage to get a couple of recipes out of mum (Strawberry Soufflé is one that I’m hoping to perfect out in NZ with Strawberries from our garden).. so yes, too short a time, but a lovely time for all that.

Oh, managed to downsize the stuff I’d stashed at home.. down to one box now. Probably should just be done with it and ship it out.

Password for the below post is (in lowercase) the city in Europe where I’m from. It’s just so as the crawlers can’t crawl too easily :)

Slightly slack in ye olde posts of late… just been really really busy with working and playing. Haven’t been getting tramping like I meant to… I think this year has somewhat got away on me.

Anyway, some of the time has been spent in the garden. Maaike has taken complete control (which is great) and I’ve been roped in to help with some of the heavy digging. Not quite sure how it’s all going to turn out – the ground was pretty solid and clay-ee… so we’ll see.

So definitely busy there. We’ve also been taking part in the evening rogaine series (3 hour events).. this year, for a change, we’ve pretty much run the whole thing.. which has been lots of fun. It is, (for me), pretty much down to Outward Bound and knowing that I can actually do these things. So good stuff there.

And we do get some pretty sunsets from our house :)

Murmuration

Worth watching in full screen… only 2 mins long