I have again been rather lax in updating my blog so apologies for that. Last week I had my parents here and set them to work in various ways. Dad did a wonderful job preparing and painting wooden windows and so I now have much less to do in that department (although the rain this morning isn't helping me carry on with the job).

 Mum and I set to on some gardening. This seemed to be mainly untangling plants that had merged and created some kind of horrific root knot. There also seemed to be Elder trees and hawthorn trees that had a habit of growing up in the middle of other trees bushes and plants. All of this made the work quite slow and hard going, but in the end we managed to sort out a bed and a half and get it into a good order.

flower bed before the work

Over the weekend we removed the kitchen. That went reasonably well although removing granite worktop stuck tight to large cupboards makes for some pretty heavy lifting. It's all out now and the kitchen is looking very pretty. Ready for the new one to come in now. We have been having BBQs and cooking on the camping stove out in the back yard. We do also have the kettle and microwave in the utility room so we can eat (which is a good).

So lots of kitchen sorting this week and hopefully some time in the polytunnel where the seedlings are doing really well, but more need planting and some will need planting into beds soon. Will also be nice to just add the finishing touches so it is totally finished.
Pigs chicks and chickens are all doing well. Although the pigs are getting bigger I am not sure they are going to be eating size in just two months. We will have to see what happens. We had our first frost on Saturday night. It's quite odd as the days have been so warm. The kids dashed out with hats and gloves on to go and play in it.