Tage at work

Spring is a busy time in the garden. Thankfully Tage is a very helpful boy and gives his parents a hand and with the help of his brand new watering can and his own wheelbarrow we have managed to get potatoes, flowers and seeds in the ground. 

We have also been working hard on John’s quest for British TV. Tage’s granddad came up from the south of Sweden with his chain saw and together we managed to fell two massive (and I mean 20m high massive!) trees that stood in the way of BBC. It was a lot of work getting rid of all the branches so we hope it’s going to be worth it!

And of course, sometimes it’s nice to just hang in the garden and not do any work at all.

Tage’s birthday, the sequel

Having family in two countries can have its advantages, especially when it means two birthday parties. On Saturday we celebrated Tage in Swedish style (which to be fair is pretty much the same as the English). With his grandparents visiting from southern Sweden, cousins Ella and Alfred (with parents) as well as friend Malin from nursery Tage had another day of presents, balloons and way to much sugar.

Tage is now very good at blowing out candles after much practice

Now we're definitely leaving it for another year before we celebrate another Tage-birthday!

Planes, trains and automobiles.

Back home after our trip to the UK all we can do is to conclude that we had a jolly time.

First stop was Hackney where we finally got to see Auntie Carol’s lovely flat and Tage got the chance to draw a nice abstract painting onto Carol’s new beanbag which had only arrived 5 minutes earlier!

Whilst Tage’s dad went to Bristol for a stag do, me and the young man opted for a nice country break in the lovely Gloucestershire countryside and at Casa Andrea. Here we enjoyed the views (and cold winds), posters of tractors in a local pub, had a go at the swings in the garden and generally just had some fabulous country fun.

Next stop was Cornwall. Ah lovely sunny Cornwall…well not quite, it pretty much rained the whole trip but we did manage to have a lovely sunny day in St Ives where we even got to hang on the beach. 

Between the showers there were still plenty of fun to be had such as investigating the new World Heritage Site Heartlands with Uncle Tony and granny.

As Tage’s birthday was only a matter of days away (actually yesterday!) granny put on a grand birthday party with plenty of food and presents! As Auntie Marie was much more on the ball with the camera at this event I will use some of the lovely pictures she took. Thanks Marie!

We made a last quick stop in London again on the way back but we must have had so much fun that I didn’t have time to take any pictures. Anyway, thanks all you lovely friends and family for making our trip so great! And for those of you we didn’t manage to catch up with this time I’m sure we see you soon.