A little unsure...

But still very excited - here she is - my Abbey starting Prep!

Potatoes anyone?

We planted potatoes back in September when the spring urge made me do crazy thing like hoeing up metres of lawn and planting a kilo of potatoes and all kinds of other vegetables. Unfortunately only the potatoes sprouted (NB to self : raise seeds in punnets first. Do not sow directly into ground for birds). So Thursday the shrubs were looking a bit shrivelled - apparently a sign its time to harvest (see i really don't know much....just making it up as i go!) So we dug and dug and dug and found lots of potatoes and ALL sorts of bugs as well - quite an education for my little city folk! The girls had such a ball they've been asking to "harvest" every day since. Jesse has just been digging up my lawn with a spade ever since! Hmmm I guess i better get cracking with more planting (peas and tomatoes to follow shortly!) oh and anyone got any good recipes to use up over 7kg of potatoes??!! Baked baby potatoes was our first meal and they were YUMMY!!

Christmas preparations!

• cooking yummy gift hampers for our neighbours

• Christmas kinder and school breakups

• raising day old chickens