long time no see?

yeah I apologise for that - it's been crazy busy in the household. Not only have I been working hard on getting the allotment ready for planting, but I had a university TMA (tutor marked assignment) to finish and get ready for a well deserved holiday.

The allotment is still moving slowly, sadly we lost a lot of the pumpkins, squash, sweetcorn and courgettes in the early May frost. Luckily today I see we still got some still alive but my allotment partner and I quickly devised a plan to purchase some young plants to quickly make up our loss. The other seedlings are looking well and I think the tomatoes are ready to plant out along with cabbage, raddish and more squash. I also purchased some marigolds today as I read somewhere that they help rid the tomatoes of bugs :) I'll update with a photo whenever I remember to take the camera with me.
Still on the news of the allotment - we had a break in, well everyone at the allotment has had break ins. 10 sheds in one weekend ! Annoyingly this time they did a real good job and mangled the lock, padlock is still ok but they mangled the metal plate. Luckily the dudes handy work secured the fixing to the shed so at least that wasnt knackered.
For now we've decided not to fix another padlock, and when i ventured down this morning to water the seedlings I was told that they had another break in last night :( They never really take any stuff - word on the street is they are looking for power tools. Broke my heart though when I heard that they had done alot of damage to the sheds.

But onto other things - yep had a brill time in Egypt - for those of you who know me the pictures are on face book.

Cats are enjoying the heat!!!! I'm enjoying the heat and I'm proud to say summer is officially here as we broke out the paddling pool this morning and filled it up. If my laptop was lighter I'd be standing blogging in the pool right now :)

Emily put Marvin to bederm not sure why but she is on the table

Marley finds another bed!