Winding down and clearing up

We're not really winding down at all, we are busy as hell and trying desperately to fit in cleaning up the garden!! Roses are still blooming but now we have the autumnal plants coming to life- these are by far my favourite: nerines. I must get more. Where to put everything is the problem!

I do, however, need to get something started on my new birthday trellis (thanks Lilian and Ross), maybe a honeysuckle and I have another climber, Chilean Potato Vine, growing in my newfangled nursery bed.

In other news, and to get said crap out of the garden, I have just purchased this new car! Well, not new of course, as I got in in Glasgow and through ebay, but it will be handy nonetheless. It's not yet too handy, as we have to get it to our mechanic, Mr Huntley, already. It idles really low and seems to be on the verge of stalling a bit. Mr Huntley will be able to sort it, if anyone, but I hope he doesn't give me a lecture. He's a bit stern if you leave something too long and I heard a legend of him stripping a length off a consultant at the hospital for letting his tires go bald. So he will be honest, anyway. Everyone join in in hoping that I haven't thrown good money away!!

Stuff and Nonsense

We have been busy, I have been using Facebook, and the blog has been suffering. I wait for really new things, not things we have done a million times. So, onwards and upwards!

Mae is back in school, in a P3/4 class, which will hopefully mean she is pushed a little harder this year. She put herself up for Eco rep for her class, and got voted in! So many other kids went for it that in getting only 5 votes, she still won! So she is proud of herself, rightly so.
She is also reading loads at the moment, which really is great- I think I would struggle if she wasn't interested in reading, I know that's terrible of me as a parent but the world of books is wonderful. Here she is reading Peter Pan on my Kindle. If any of you have any other recommendations for her age, please let me know! We (mostly reading to her) have been through all the Roald Dahl books this summer, and she recently finished Jacob Two-Two and the Hooded Fang, which was one of my childhood favourites. We are awaiting some Madeleine L'Engle being sent from a friend in Canada, I hope she likes that as well.
I know I am bragging, but who knows how long she is going to enjoy school, must make the most of it! She did well in Maths today, her teacher said she was a 'Mathmetician'- she doesn't get that from me, that's for sure!!


She's also glad to see her school friends again, as although all us mums have the best intentions at the beginning of summer, by the end of it we realise we haven't seen each other at all! So Mae is here with her friend Rory, whose mum took them both in town this afternoon to get their picture taken with the Olympic torch. Pretty cool!

We took another of Mae's friends out the other week to a play in the grounds of Drumlanrig Castle, The Fantastic Mr Fox, which was brilliant. In the car on the way up, Mae called me Jennifer for some reason. Her friend said ' Is THAT your name..? Huh. I think I will still call you 'Thingy''

Thanks, Lizzie!

Thingy.