A brighter day
Posted by Deb on Sunday April 1, 2007 at 1:58 pmAn email from France this morning tells us that Barney was giggling with Henry and his sister in their room this morning – and that Barney was giggling the loudest of the lot 
We’ve spent most of the morning outside; I’ve washed all the downstairs windows, including the conservatory, and stared at the upstairs windows, partly wondering how to get them cleaned and partly hoping the power of my stare will make the dirt fall off 
Jack and Toby took a bucket of soapy water and washed the last of the patio chairs – a chore started yesterday by George, Freddy, Jack and friend R. R stayed over last night too; they were all asleep surprisingly early, though that didn’t start the morning from starting with a meltdown for George, followed an hour or two later by R deciding to go home because I told him off for having a super-soaker – full of water – upstairs on the landing. Freddy and George followed him, had lunch at his house, and I can now hear the three voices through the open window and, if I look out, can just see their heads appearing and disappearing over the hedge as they jump on the trampoline.
I do like this time of year; everything is waking up from the winter and it’s so nice to start living partly outside again. My plants are coming on too: I now have the shoots of several basil plants and about three tomato plants and a lettuce. Every time I look at my tray, I find another little shoot of something. Scratchy says staring at them doesn’t work, but I think the evidence shows otherwise
Scratchy has gone all soft and seems prepared to let me have nearly anything I want at the minute. Suggestions for things I should go for should be left in the comments 
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