This Tuesday was Lewis's birthday, so we had to have a cake in the shed! Miss Swallow thought that we should also have something healthy to eat with it so she bought some hummus with celery, cucumber and carrot strips.
Lewis blows out his candle after we sang Happy Birthday!
Everyone was unsure of the hummus dip at first, but once they tried it the carrot, celery and cucmber was gone in minutes! So much so, that we decided to thin out the lettuce. The leaves were tiny but we gave them a wash and dipped them in the hummus too - yum!Also that morning, members took our cabbage seedlings round classes for pupils to guess which they thought would grow the tallest. We raised £10.40 - not bad at just 20p a guess. Hopefully the public will visit Frank Nicol's garden centre throughout the summer and continue to make guesses to raise more money for children of Malawi.
Miss Swallow was out on Wednesday and Lewis was busy. The girls got to the garden a bit late, but did lots of watering - the waterbutt had started overflowing!
The water butt had a slight leak so Danielle left the watering can under it. It was full by Thursday ready to water the cabbage seedlings again.
On Thursday we also topped up the potato bags - the plants have grown tall but they didn't have much soil in them. Hopefully now they will grow more potatoes.
Rob continued to work in the garden on Thursday too - here you can see he started building a tool store out of pallets ready for classes using the garden next year.
Miss Swallow was out on Wednesday and Lewis was busy. The girls got to the garden a bit late, but did lots of watering - the waterbutt had started overflowing!
The water butt had a slight leak so Danielle left the watering can under it. It was full by Thursday ready to water the cabbage seedlings again.
On Thursday we also topped up the potato bags - the plants have grown tall but they didn't have much soil in them. Hopefully now they will grow more potatoes.
Rob continued to work in the garden on Thursday too - here you can see he started building a tool store out of pallets ready for classes using the garden next year.
Well, I was going to post a YouTube for Lewis' birthday, but this software wouldn't accept it, so I went away in high dudgeon. Let's try this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ7bWyXEzOs
I hope that's acceptable.
Now, since it is June 21, here's a nice, old poem:
Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med
And springþ þe wde nu,
Sing cuccu!
Awe bleteþ after lomb,
Lhouþ after calue cu.
Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ,
Murie sing cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu, wel þu singes cuccu;
Ne swik þu nauer nu.
Pes:
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!
And if you dopn't think typing all those thorns in there wasn't a bit of an ordeal ...
LOL
Well, funny you should post up a summer song as this week, Lewis has been writing a DiGGers song for us! He showed me the first draft, but hasn't finished it yet or decided on a tune (or found anyone to try singing it lol!) Watch this space!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure he'll like the clip you've chosen though!