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Home sweet home!

After a long journey back from Taunton (my fault - Friday afternoon in the Easter holidays was never going to be a good time to use the A303...) we are all back together at home again, bliss. 

We got back from a great week in Crete on Sunday evening and since then it feels like we haven't stopped.  The girls had a hectic day on Monday and then Mum and Dad turned up on Tuesday to fit some curtains and they all went back to Taunton before I joined them on Wednesday afternoon. This meant Abi, Izzy, Ben and Laurie have had 3 days of uninterrupted playing together which they have absolutely loved, and made the most of.  Add to this the fact that Mum and Dad have an orphaned lamb (Vespa, above) which is very tame and always hungry and they couldn't have asked for a better couple of days.  I think I'll wait a few days to break the joyful news to Mum and Dad that they spent a good part of the journey home asking when they could return!

We came home this afternoon to find Glenn had just finished up mowing the lawn for the first time and the garden looked wonderful in the Spring sunshine - it should do after the 5 dumpy bags of grass Glenn has taken off it. The house is coming together and although we won't get round to making much in the way of  garden changes this summer I can't wait for the warmer days to really begin to get out and enjoy it.  Abi headed straight off to the shed to get the mower out to ride around on it and pick up the last of the lawn cuttings (I think she prefers it to the go-cart - less chance of doing some damage), while Izzy headed to the playroom to catch up on some Call the Midwife.  Each to their own!

Abi and Ben have spent most of the last few days planning their farm venture which they plan to set up as soon as possible.  They have big plans.  Apparently it will have at least a 1000 sheep and many helpers, 698 in fact, until I pointed out that the economics might not work too well!  Abi does admit that she enjoys the planning more than the doing.  On more than one occasion this week she balked as the sheep headed towards her too fast.  I suspect she's not destined to be a farmer at this rate.  All four of them have played so well, as always.  I'm constantly amazed at how quickly they get and fall back into being the best of friends with no apparent awkwardness.  Long may this continue as I'd like to think they can remain close even if we are geographically distant. They are getting more independent as well - in fact they just disappeared for most of the time, coming back when hungry or wet.  I guess it depends on us to keep them together - not that difficult when they have such a lovely time. 

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