The Constant Gardener

A couple of snaps from a recent jaunt to Manchester.

Ready For Summer

Here is Amelia in her swimming cossie. It's the only one she's ever had, the smallest we could buy and it's still miles too big for her. Anyway she's muttering more and more words almost on a daily basis now, she can do various animal impressions and she'll even join in for the start of 'Row Your Boat'. Canines are appearing too so what with the blistering heat and all she's not sleeping too well.

Club Tropicana

Well we're back from our week in the tropics - Praa sands, Cornwall to be precise. It's a few miles shy of Penzance and around 17 from Land's End if that helps. Anyway a truly wonderful place for a holiday if anyone's interested - plenty of things to visit including to truly awesome Eden Project. The slightly foggy picture of the 3 of us was taken on one of the enormous biomes there which housed thousands of tropical plants hence the humidity and condensation on the lens.

Weather was misty for 3 or 4 days and then absolutely incredible for the rest. It had everything the Costa Del Sol has but without the permanent building-site look, arrid landscape, yobs, beaches jam-packed with tourists, lousy food and bucket-flight to an airport 40 miles from where you're staying. Give me Blighty any day.

The other picture is of Amelia shovelling sand around but her spade has some history - it was mine. 30 years ago it was me making sandcastles in Wales and now I've handed it down the line. How's that for an heirloom?