Yes, no sooner had I decided to think about starting off my dwarf beans on the kitchen windowsill, the heavens opened and sprinkled us liberally with the white stuff.
Twiglet is very impressed with snow. Having only seen about three flakes in his 22 months, this morning was extremely exciting.
'What's that, Ellis?'
'Ooooh....Ooohhhh.......*manic laughter and much pointing*'
' Snow...can Ellis say snow?'
'Nooooooooooooooo.....*more manic cackling as he tries to climb out of window*'
No sooner had we got downstairs and he stopped yelling 'Noooooooo!!!!' long enough to guzzle half his Weetabix and smear the other half over the table, the chair and his hair; he was attempting a somewhat gung-ho escape from the back door clad only in his vest.
We got dressed, spent 10 minutes looking for mittens, gave up looking for mittens and put socks on his hands, and ventured outside into the snowy loveliness.....
He kicked some, he threw some, he tried to eat some....fortunately, it wasn't yellow.....he wandered off.....
Then he fell over. I couldn't take a photo of this, as I was laughing too much. Bad Mummy.
What else has happened recently?
We made marmalade. Well, I say marmalade...what we actually got was something that could be used as building foundations. One thinks one missed the setting point of said marmalade by, whooo, about 5 minutes. There is still a knife stuck fast in the jar. What we did manage to taste was, indeed, gorgeous; and the actual process of marmalade-making was much easier than I thought so I feel another stab at this particular pastime should be considered soon.
I thought I would try and be clever and make fudge for my mum for Mothers' Day. It looked easy enough in the cookbook. Here is a picture of said fudge....
Mmm....yum. Note to self: Buy flowers next year.
