Friday, July 5, 2013

Summer days at home and day trips out too......

Eatting outside , a rare occasion in Ireland
A day trip out with the kids and I, Thorben, Elke and Jonas in Kilmacurragh Gardens....a great spot for a picnic or walk, free in and they have toilets. Free and Beautiful Day out........

The three adventurers.....hats and bike helmet are part of essential kit on days out.

We sat under a lovely tree and ate our picnic lunch

We found some enormous leaves....they have lots of trees from seeds brought back from expeditions to places all over the world.

They have a mowed lawn area for running down and also a lovely meadow wildflowere area.

The kids insisted on trying out the picnic table for our camping trip...breakfast was like this every morning...




bbqing in our courtyard....

Axel and i taking some shade

our fencing out the front, behind it rubarb and spuds

this little man is very much loved by his sister

Smiles from Thorben

Our gang

Axel and I on a garden tour of Gash Gardens , Co. Laois. A wonderful day spent with the gardening club of Ballymore Eustace.

Our group on the tour, Mary the owner of Gash Gardens gave us a really good tour.


We went to Avondale with some of my cousins and an Aunty and Uncle and my folks too.



We went to the Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin and Ines and Derek and family.


The hot house there is very cool...


My Uncle Sean in Avondale

Nice box hedging holding herbs in the botanic gardens vegetable walled garden

Holidays are here....lazy days

Summer holidays are here. no commitments..lazy breakfasts and endless days ahead of us. We feel more relaxed already.


On advice from Suzie Cahn. our permaculture gardener friend, we have got a pond dug....we have a spring piped into the corner of our field from the mountain behind us so we started to fill it and it held the water with no lining.....brilliant news for us.


Our digger man was great he managed to avoid damaging our alder trees which are on one side of the pond.It is in the planning stages really, we need to put in an outlet and maybe a stream section...of course fencing too as the kids are young...but we saw our first dragon flies dancing over it this morning....it was lovely to see.


Polytunnel progress...Axel in my sling here....the place is bulging with growth....carrots, beans, pease, chard, beetroot, courgettes....



Broad beans on left, peas on right...the kids are eatting them like sweets.

Granny and Elke camping together

Our tent, Becca came down too for a night, Grandad and Grannys caravan in the background. right beside us which was brilliant for us.


Our tent its huge<<<

BEcca, Axel and Granny...the fruit cake was good though BEcca looks like its not...

My Uncle Tom came down for lunch on a Tuesday with my folks...

Our Tomatoes

Giant courgette


Strawberries.... 


Home baking....the buns did not last long...