Some people enjoy being woken up by the sounds of the birds singing their pretty early morning songs, some people choose to have the radio switch on at a certain time, whilst others prefer a simple beep or bell sound to rouse them from their sleep – we have an Edward and his current alarm style of choice is…UP!!!!! and the time seems to be set to random any time between 5.30am and 7am.

Whilst the weather has been quite nice on the whole over the last week, it’s not been anywhere near as warm so there hasn’t been much work going on in the new garden; everything else has been coming on in leaps and bounds though and the rose we planted against the side of the house last year is now blooming and she looks and smells absolutely stunning.  Actually, she is the second rose we planted against the house (I’ll remember her name in a minute) the first one was ‘Dance de Feu’- a very red rose that is lovely, but then I changed my mind and decided that a big frilly pink rose would be better.  So I moved Dance de Feu to the big pot in front of the lounge window and then it sulked for the rest of the summer (well I did move it at the wrong time really), but now it’s throwing out flower buds again and is threatening to bloom just in time for the village open day on the 1st of June.

Me and the Bear are taking Simon to Gardeners’ World Live at the Birmingham NEC for Father’s Day on the 15th of June – we are both very excited about that (me and Simon that is, I’m not sure how excited Edward is about it).

Aside from all the usual, we didn’t do a great deal over the weekend – there wasn’t a Grand Prix on (after my superb start to the Nightmare Grand Prix season I am now in 27th place – I WAS 8th at one point, I was quite overexcited about that – and Simon is already in his , now, customary last position!).

Jack and Ellie went to my mum’s for the day on Sunday – Ellie has been working on her bike with Tony so that it is ready for the cycling phase of her triathlon training and Jack has been helping my mum in the garden.  Me, Simon and the Bear went to one of our local gardening centres and bought a beautiful crimson Japanese Maple and a very minimalist black square pot to plant it in. It’s going to go in the other new bit of garden that we have acquired – the little courtyard bit outside the kitchen window that looks out towards the church; against the white of the wall it’s going to be quite eye-catching I think, and it was a bargain because we ‘belong’ to the garden centre we had a 50% off any one plant voucher sent to us and they also had 20% off pots too!

Right – it’s that time of day when me and Edward must take Simon a cup of tea and then take Jack and Ellie to school.  The rest of the day will go by in a flash and before I know it it will be midnight again and another day will over!