Hi everyone,

Well its April and at long last, spring has finally sprung. It’s been exciting for us as all over our property flowers have been springing up all over the place. I’ve lost count of how many primroses there are, probably hundreds. Up the driveway we’ve found these lovely orchids and there’s probably more than 50 of those. There are bluebells along the banks and in the area that is about to become our vegetable patch we’ve found at least 50 Foxgloves so I’ve dug them up and put them elsewhere. Oh, and daffodils. I’ve probably had ten vases worth from the sheep field.

Our other ‘big’ event has been that Conor has lost his first tooth! He had complained that eating an apple hurt and I had dismissed it! It was only the next day that it crossed my mind that it might be wobbly. I still can’t quite believe that my ‘baby’ is old enough to be losing his milk teeth. I had found out that in France there is a little mouse that visits and exchanges the tooth for a coin. Being an English boy living in France Conor was thrilled to discover that the tooth fairy had flown over from England and the little French mouse had been. They gave him two 50 cents coins!!

Well I think it’s time to get on with that mowing so I’ll say goodbye until next time.

Sabina, Simon, Conor & Archie - and Woolly, Fleecy, Curly, Zebedee, Zippy, Daisy and Minty of course!!

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And talking of sheep…. We’ve bought seven!!! We’ve bought 3 ewes and their 4 lambs. They’re only 10 days old now and they’re so sweet. We’ve names the mums ‘Woolly, fleecy and curly’. The lambs are ‘Zebedee, Zippy, Daisy and Minty’ At the moment they’re in the sheep field where Marcel our neighbour sometimes puts his sheep. He’s won loads of cups as he spends the summer months winning sheep competitions and compared to his pedigree sheep our crossbreeds are quite scruffy, but we don’t care. In the long term were going to breed from them, put some ‘in the freezer’ and fence off other areas of the property so that they can mow the lawns for us. The ride on lawnmower uses loads of fuel to do the lawns takes 6 hours and it’ll be cheaper in the long run to pay for fencing.

Despite having loads of work to be getting on with I badgered Simon into fixing the school’s benches for free, which had become very loose and rocked from side to side. When we dropped the boys off one day last week one of the planks had even come away at one end. So Simon, wanting to do things properly, took them all apart, fixed them, re-glued them, treated them for woodworm and then waxed them. It took him most of the weekend so I was on lawn-mowing duty! I’ve got about a third left to do before the weekend when our friends, Guy (Simon’s best man) & Yvonne are coming over. It’s their first visit so I’d like to get it all looking nice.