pumpkin

Hallowe'en! I got Tris the pumkin outfit for a fancy dress hallowe'en party. He refused to wear it. I only got him into (for 10 secs for the photo/ posterity!) after having pretended to be the voice of the pumpkin and it being lonely at not having any pumpkin friends (yes psycotherapist this is where it all started!).

We had loads of people trick or treating and got through all the sweets we had with Tristan delivering his verdict "they are not scary"/ "why is she dressed as a princess" etc. to all of them.

1 little boy...

We saw lots of Grandma over summer - here they are sharing a trifle together.
More problematic than the calories was that grandma brain-washed Tristan into singing Rolf Harris' 'Two little boys' ... continually! I'm afraid it must be shared if only for embarrassing him with later!

and after the performance (applause please!)

More diy (never ends)

Here we are doing the path. We lifted up the tarmac hoping to find a nice original tile path. As per everything with this house that didn't happen of course (lots of mud and ants)! One side-effect was that we had a week of having a moat/bog to wade through to get to the house between the tarmac coming up (in the dry) and getting to this stage. Nice!

With tools and an understanding of diy like this it's amazing that we haven't got everything finished...