Can’t wait to visit the new Ealing pad for a bbq in the back garden…
Here’s the front door:
And the very posh bathroom:
And the even posher fireplace…
Another view of the lounge:
And the huge, light and airy kitchen and breakfast room… the perfect spot for James to cook while Becky pirouettes around the room and lays the table!
Chloe celebrates the return of sunshine to Oxford (finally!) with one of her little sundresses.
Step one, send your husband out to the garden to see what he can dig up…
Step two, pause to admire the squash that’s finally growing now that Baci has taken care of all the groundhogs…
Step three, follow husband around the garden with a camera to record it all for posterity…
Step four, serve and enjoy! (The bit of grit in the lettuce only served to remind us how fresh it was…that’s clean dirt, after all.)
Hannah and Chloe spend a considerable amount of time each day taking photos in the rainbow chair:
See?
Hannah’s ticket to freedom! Chloe takes to the bottle as naturally as her mother… so Hannah can have a glass of wine… or ten.
Christian realizes too late that it might have been a good idea to give Chloe the bottle after Hannah had extra portions of Christian’s red wine and onion gravy. Turns out Chloe didn’t appreciate it quite as much as her mum did…
But at the end of the day, she’s still Daddy’s Little Princess… Chloe gets a cuddle from Inspector Bunt:
Caroline just sent over some photos of Boxing Day 2006 at the Martinellis. Here’s Becky and Nan-nan in matching cracker hats:
And here’s Nan-nan showing Carlo exactly how a game of table football is played…
She’s on the two-week countdown….
Who needs a wedding to get all dressed up?
Good enough to eat…
It’s been an exciting week in the garden at 152 Pitcher Lane (not sure we’ve ever used “exciting” and “garden” in the same sentence before!). This morning, the “trained arborists” (that’s what they call themselves) showed up to plant the tree that was a present from Bob and Susan:
It didn’t look so little before we put it next to that massive pine! The short-term plan is that it will grow to hide all those ugly dead branches (brilliant idea, Malc!) and the long-term plan is that it will eventually replace the big pine. We can’t wait to see what kind of reaction we get from next door when we burn that bonfire!
Over in the vegetable patch, everything’s growing like crazy and Rob also planted some sunflowers (in the foreground, ignore the monstrous weeds in the corner):
And behold, our first cucumber! If Emma looks a little sheepish, it’s because it’s very hard to pose with a cucumber while trying to make sure that the photo doesn’t come out looking dirty!
Blueberry picking at the farm down the road with the Tourtelots. It’s not hard to tell which person in this photo (hey shorty!) married into the family…
