There's a spring in our step

I might be talking too soon but I can feel spring just around the corner. It has been a very chilly winter and I've been a bit tired of wearing the same two outfits everyday. Why only two outfits? Well, I've had to wear almost all my winter clothes at the same time, layering myself in tops and jumpers just to try and keep warm. However, the last few days have seen the sun shining and heating things up. I've gone from wearing five layers on top to wearing just three. So taking advantage of the beautiful weekend of weather we have just had, we took to the garden to start preparing it for spring.

Our vegetable and herb garden has been very neglected. I stopped putting any energy into it when I was pregnant with Buster. Apart from the herbs the only growing success we've had is rhubarb, which has provided us with bountiful pickings which in turn has provided us with many a scrumptious rhubarb crumble.

After giving the vege patch a good weeding and setting down some newspapers to stop any further weeds growing before we built up the beds, I had the idea of creating a border. I'd thought about using some planks of wood or getting a ready-made decorative border, but then remembered we had a heap of bricks we had unearthed on an earlier garden weeding mission when we first bought the house. I'm a fan of recycling so wondered what a brick border would look like.

Michael had some great ideas on how to do it and set about digging a trench, making it level and placing the bricks on an angle. Me, Henry and Milly got busy bringing Michael the bricks that were stacked on the other side of the house and restacking them in front of him for ease of use.

Fetching bricks was a short lived activity for Henry. Now that he is at school so many activities have become "boring". We soldiered on regardless and wanted to make the most of the time we had while Buster was having his daytime sleep.

When the job was finished, it was time to step back and take a look (and a photo). We were pretty pleased with it. It's tidied things up and hopefully the bricks will stop the kids riding their bikes and scooters into the vege patch and squashing everything.