Normal blogging resumes!

I am sure you are all terribly pleased to hear that normal blogging will now resume! 

After 4 days off or so (which I will come onto) I am resuming the challenge.  Today's challenge is to plant in the tomatoes (yes bought, purlease my seedlings are still in their first stages and am not sure are going to come to much but...), plant out the rose tree that will adorn the front entrance as well as the lavender plants into the long container, clear up the debris by the door, starting planting in the bush borders too!  I am sure I will be helping to finish the gravelling of our new Italian Garden (will also come onto this).  I also need to cook dinner and deal with 4 days worth of post (when I said time off I meant it!)

So, first to re-count a great weekend!  Saturday was delicious!  Long Digby run before dropping him off at Molly's for a doggy sleep-over left me the rest of the morning to beautify for a glorious wedding!  Long soak in a bath, nails and rays on the patio, finished my book and I even had the time to spend putting on a 'good' face!  Lunch was cooked for when Henri came home before us dashing to the church.  With our first wedding anniversary this weekend this one was bound to bring up cherished memories of our own wedding as not only was this one romantic but not dissimilar to our own.  2pm at the church and when the bride came in I predictably blubbed.  We kissed and cuddled throughout the ceremony!  We really are a soppy couple and we don't care!  Arriving at The Wardrobe in the Cathedral Close we were greeted with the most beautiful British sight .... huge trees, flowering borders and an enormous lawn dotted with white clothed tables decorated with wild flowers and 'pretty' weeds - looking like they had been picked directly from a meadow!  Champagne or real lemonade on arrival too....tough choice, it was baking but decided champagne was too good to turn down (don't think I have ever turned down a glass of champagne in my life!)  Before we knew it we could take a seat anywhere and tuck into the best looking cream tea I've seen in a long while.  Simply delicious!  Very informal speeches; funny and touching (yes, I cried again)!! We idled the day away chatting to everyone - only 60 guests, perfect - walking in the grounds and watched and coo'd over the first dance, ate a superb buffet, and made plans with the groom and his family to have dinner at Casa Bianca soon.  Home by midnight and deliriously happy - even to have just spent a Saturday together!

Sunday we managed a mini lie in thanks to Digby being away, lazily getting up to eat breakie in the garden and hot footed it to Molly's to pick up the pooch before heading to the garden centre to buy it's entire contents - well alot of plants - I love exaggerating! Over to Fordingbridge to see Nanci's flat and say happy birthday to Henri's father before a full on 7 hours of gardening labour in sweltering heat!  Our vision of the Italian garden we'd dreamed of for 2 years was born! (Dramatic stuff eh?!) 

Rotivating (is there such a word?) was a killer - well I say that it looked like a killer - Henri spent 4 hours doing this bit! To clarify I wasn't just sat watching him I was weeding another part of the garden..... we lay black sheeting down - that was the easy bit! We had fun deciding on where to place all of our beautiful little plants! Half finished now with half gravel - the rest to be done tonight! 

End of slightly off kilter blogging and for tomorrow I will resume normal day challenges and moaning then!  Bet you can't wait!xxx