Cuddles with Tina and Dolly below

Then I go to feed the kids and it’s all worthwhile!

Pick plums or apricots, broad beans or french beans

Or admire the first sunflower?

Then pick up windfall Bramleys

There are also pounds of red currants and white currants to pick and late ripening blackcurrants and raspberries hiding in an overgrown part of the garden near a hedge.

I feel sorry for the birds needing food and water (the ground is so hard and where are the worms?).

Will we ever get rain?

But someone has to get up to feed the animals and open up the duck house and chicken houses. I dozed in my chair until 1.30 am and decided (with the delayed start of the match) that I would go to bed leaving Jeremy to watch the game.

So now, animals fed and watered and kids fed, I’m sitting with a cup of coffee and watching the match on BBC2. If you’re watching too I won’t reveal the final score which right now is 0-0

No more open windows!