Monday, April 12, 2004
St Jules
We now have two potential Tour de France winners in the Family. Well it's most probably a bit optimistic but both Elizabeth (6) and Hugh (4) can now ride their bikes without stabilisers. A bit wobbly but they are very excited about it. Caroline and I spent several hours yesterday and today taking it in turns to 'guide' each of them up and down. My back is aching after running round bent double but it's worth it.
In between bike training sessions we managed to get some serious painting on the house finished. I completed the second coats of lassure on the three new shutters for the upstairs windows and Caroline painted the veranda. The veranda faces south and started to look very shabby with the faded chocolate brown weather beaten paint peeling off. It's now a shiny new conker colour. Still not the most attractive veranda in the world but a vast improvement. First impressions etc.
Vegtable patch out the back is coming along nicely. Caroline planted potatoes yesterday and I finished turning the compost bins. Another large trailer load of muck spread into the soil. The muck mainly consists of grass, straw, and poultry waste, so it should help the veg. along nicely.
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