Holidays are over !!!

As it says – the holidays are over.  Well, they are for my parents and my aunt.  For my parents I have fed the big fish, fed the little fish, watered the runner beans and fed the wild blackbird.  Yes, this is a wild blackbird and has special food bought for it.  Tubs of worms !  This same blackbird has been visiting their house for the past, hmm, at least 5 years.  It has been known to walk into the kitchen before.  It gets very impatient and taps on the window with its beak if it is hungry.  If that fails it begins to sing until someone pays it attention.  Well, it’s not the attention it wants, just the worms.



Big fish food, little fish food, blackird food !



We did check the post and water other parts of the garden, but really it was the runner beans that mum needed watering most.  Today she is having roast pork for her dinner.  She has managed to get an apple from a small tree in the garden for the apple sauce, she got enough runner beans to have with her dinner and she has picked loads of plums from her plum tree (we did confess that we ate two).  She says she is going to put some apples and blackberries (also from the garden) with the plums then freeze them in bags so she can just take out a bag at a time and make some form of dessert from them.  Good thinking Batman.  She bought us a stick of rock each back from her holiday – one is pineapple flavour and the other is banana flavour.  HE thinks he’s getting the banana flavoured one.  HE can think what he likes.  It ain’t happening.  I think he’ll like the pineapple flavoured one.  She also rewarded us with a little cash too !  Thanks mum.

As for my Aunt ...  we watered her plants, checked that her electric stayed on and watered the vegetable patch in the back garden.  Oh yes, not forgetting the sunflowers – they were the biggest concern.  They lived.  Phew.  I was ‘responsible’ for them but I don’t really like being responsible.  I always think that makes me a proper grown up and I don’t think I want to be a grown up either.  My aunt gave us a card with a sheep on the front of it with the words ‘ewe are my sunshine’ on it.  Inside she wrote ‘thank you so much’ but had she have been thinking cleverly, she could have put ‘thank ewe so much’.  Never mind.  The sheep is also made of some kind of fabric – I’ve never seen a yellow sheep before.  She also rewarded us with a little cash.  Thanks aunty.

So ...   now all the duties are over, I think I can find enough time for myself to sit down and enjoy a Bulmers Cider 'with crushed red berries and lime'.  Don't mind if I do !!!