Our First Flat

A small gathering of drunkards.

This weekend we had a small gathering of friends (mainly school and university friends) round to celebrate our new flat. The first big barbecue of the season went down very well, and as far as we're away everyone had a good time - some of us even stayed up until 4.30am playing Scalextric in the garage!

"There was Elliss, Elliss, putting up a trellis... In the store..."

I'm writing this update about a week later, so my recall of what we did is pretty slim! :) Needless to say Henry put some Trellising up, which was harder than it sounds due to a mix up with some 100mm and 160mm support screws (see below!) and the need to buy a big new ladder. But we got there eventually. Sara was also hard at work, both painting the wall of the garage, repotting more plants and digging all the weeds up from the mud outside the kitchen window.

Henry also found time to tidy up the garage, which resulted in a trip to the carpet shop - Sara suggested putting the Scalextric up in there, so we went and bought an off-cut of green carpet (4m x 2m for £20!!!) and will hopefully have that up before our next visitors come. All in all a very productive day.

The first attack on the monster in the garden...

Once again today we were lucky enough to have the help of the might Claire and Dave (and Otis the dog - not that he helped much!) and decided we'd give the garden a go, since the weather was nice. The original plan was to do some weeding, cut the grass (with the lawnmower Ben and Katy kindly lent us) and paint the walls. However, that quickly changed to accomodate the HUGE plant which was virtually pulling the wall over. Claire and Dave set about hacking it all down from the wall - it was so entwined that it took the trellace down with it - and about 15 rubble-bags and 2 trips to the tip later it was done.

The plant destroying took up most of the day, although all the weeding and some new planting also got done. Henry didn't take a huge part as he spent most of the day in the car, queuing for the tip. We finished the day with a lovely barbecue, and a good time was had by all.

On Sunday Henry and Sara had a taste of parenthood when they babysat for William. He was VERY cute, and did lots of fun stuff including helping Sara on the computer and falling asleep on Henry's chest - Awwwww! All of which you can see below :)