This time last week ...

Today it has poured with rain until the roads turned to brown rivers from all the mud being washed off the roadside fields.  

This time last week I was standing on top of Table Mountain - awesome!!

We have returned from a wonderful holiday full of terrific memories of places and people.  Stunning scenery, very hot (and sometimes humid) temperatures,  delicious food . . . a great time in every way.  The down side of a holiday is the sorting out on your return and I have spent the past few days getting stuck into  never-ending pile of washing - and an inversely proportional ironing mountain.  I'm getting there, just slowly.

Having run down the freezer and store cupboards before we went away (we had porridge for lunch and beans on toast for dinner the day we got home!), a shopping trip was urgently required to fill the kitchen cupboards again.   Back to keeping track of the pennies and getting good value for money.

We made the most of a couple of days of lovely sunny weather (before the rain!)  and did a bit of work in the veg garden, digging over the raised beds and sowing some seeds, starting with peas and spinach.  We're having to adapt things a little in the garden this year but the promise of fresh vegetables straight from the garden lin a couple of months has my mouth watering!