Links to all my new scrapbook crafts blogs

If you are interested in learning more about me and my life, now and earlier on, there are lots of random spotlights on these blogs - why not go and check them out!

A Photo Every Day 2009 http://petra365.blogspot.com/
Memories of my Childhood http://petradoa.blogspot.com/
My Digital Pages (various events of the last four years but mostly recent) http://petrapages.blogspot.com/
Book Reviews - my favourites and recent reading http://petrabooks.blogspot.com/
Art Inspiration - random layouts inspired by real paintings http://petraartlayouts.blogspot.com/

Many things happened - but nothing that moved our world

We've got a new fence - new from old - in the garden with extended beds so that we can now grow veggies without Chiefie digging them up or adding her special taste to the salad... The tomatoes are growing nicely in the photo and we've already had lettuces, radishes, chard, komatsuma, sorrel, some beans and a courgette from our own production! Sean has successfully started his little "Three Sisters" plantation - he found out on the Internet that sweetcorn, beans and squashes planted together like this will benefit from each other, and was determined to try it out. So far so good - we'll have to see what cornucopia of food will grow from it, or not... We've had the most amazing "heat wave" for a couple of weeks - it was so hot Sean took to doing outside work at night when it was cooler... It doesn't really get dark outside here because of the massive street lights over the roundabout outside the house. That's him planting the Three Sisters! We've had our very own bonfire in the garden one night to get rid of all those ivy cuttings (see previous post) and lots of other woody bits... We've attended dances, weddings and fairs... Just this weekend past we had the Black Cherry Fair in Chertsey (as you can see, weather is back to cool and rainy - these are two friends from church). The nieces (Eleanor and Zoe) at their dance school show, also last Saturday: And the weather vane, newly gilded, in front of the church at a fundraising opening of the tower to gather money for a new flagpole (the old one had to be taken down as it had rusted through). Sean spent most of the afternoon there to man the tower at various levels in a rota. And of course it was Sean's birthday (now he's as old as I am again for the next 3 months...!).
The "T" stands for his middle name, Trouble, and two rows of four candles each makes 44 (there wasn't enough room for 44....).

If you want to see more of the things that are happening in our lives, please have a look at the scrapbook layouts on my 365-photos blog (link in the sidebar). There's a page for every day of the year - currently updated to sometime in May, with all the special and lots of the ordinary things in our life here in Chertsey.