Family Times Together

I mentioned in my last blog post it has been a busy week as there have been quite a few social family events as we celebrate our 59th wedding anniversary.

On Sunday we went to our daughter M's home for croissants and coffee.

 Blue wild geraniums and white astrantia flowers under the birch trees look pretty in the shared courtyard garden area 

Mr P and Daughter M have grown sunflowers from seed.  M has planted hers in pots and ours are in the flower beds.  Hopefully we'll get as good a display as we did last year. 

Along the lane there are many trees and daughter M gathered some elderberry flowers, thoroughly washed them, added lemon peel and made some elderberry cordial.  We were given a bottle (originally used when she made limoncello) and we are now enjoying this refreshing drink at home.

When Daughter M and partner came for an evening meal after work this week Mr P made spinach and ricotta lasagne.  (Daughter M had given us beforehand the spinach which she grows in raised beds in her large garden). 

Tonight our granddaughter, partner and baby are coming for a visit and a shared meal.  She's bringing mushroom risotto for our evening meal which will be followed by Mr P's home grown strawberries. We're certainly well looked after by our family members. We're also looking forward to our Berkshire daughter coming to stay when she breaks up from school work in the Summer.  We've a lot of places we hope to visit with both daughters during the Summer season weekends.

I hope all is going well with you.  Thank you for visiting.  Speak again soon.              

 

Our Garden Mid June

Since coming back to South Yorkshire from the wedding in West Berkshire we've been resting and enjoying the flowers in our garden.  The sweet peas are doing well.  Mr P made a structure of canes for them to climb up.  The roses, of course, are 'the stars of the show' whilst the white mock orange blossom and the blue flowers on the ceanothus with evergreen leaves, also called California Lilac, is a pretty shrub that is a winner in our garden.  Personally I like white flowers especially if they have a perfume that gets stronger at twilight.  The weather has been a mixture of sunshine and showers lately.    I hope the weather improves as it's quite cold for the time of the year.  Yesterday was Father's Day in the UK and Mr P received cards and phone calls from members of our family.  

It's a busy week socially. We went to our local daughter's home for coffee and croissants on Sunday morning, we've a shared meal with our granddaughter and partner mid week and for our wedding anniversary we're hosting a meal for our local daughter and partner.

I hope you're also having a good week.  Thank you for your visit.