Silver Wedding

waveney and I celebrate our silver wedding today. Amazingly, my cuddly, shaggy-haired student with a knee-length pink sweater has grown into a cuddly, shaggy-haired adult with an Hawaiian shirt!

We're going out for a meal with both our sons and the daughter-outlaw this evening and then we're celebrating at the weekend by doing as much gaming as possible with as many friends as possible. (we originally met at the University of East Anglia Games Society)

Gardening in hot weather

I'm making some progress on the garden today, but I'm having to come inside every 15 mins or so to cool down. (I don't bother with sun lotion, I just move out the sun once I get hot - it's worked so far)

I've been clipping the hedge the last couple of days and tying down the climbing rose. I've been dead-heading and pruning the rose as I go and I think there'll be a really good second flush of flowers on it before long.

There's a bramble in the corner that needs cutting back, but that will have to wait for cooler weather. I'm not venturing in that corner without a long-sleeved shirt for protection. I've got enough scratches from the hedge as it it!

The back lawn beckons...