Hi apples, we are very well thank you. Hope you and Mr apples are doing well too.
We had the most FAB time in Wales, sooo much fun!

We had a huge jacuzzi, biggest one yet at a holiday let. This was great for hubby and his lovely long legs.
We did loads of day trips, went to the coast, it was boiling hot the whole time...not so good! I'm not a lover of hot weather, and that could be putting it mildly. But it was nice to be able to do things outdoors and not worry about rain. I also fit a bit of fishing in here and there, but didn't have any luck.
Speaking of fishing, I am finding it tricky because of heat. I went to the river the other day, and was in my waders. Oh never again, too hot! Didn't catch anything, well almost did, but it got away. Hate it when that happens, because you get all excited, and you never get to see what it was. Grrrr
Never mind, I always enjoy myself, fish are a bonus.
We also have slightly brown lawns, you can't really do much about it. Our neighbour watered the garden whilst we were away, so that was great. It would have been worse if it had been left for a week. Hose pipe ban soon, so the watering will be by can only. We are doing hourly rain dances, hoping it will be cancelled.
We are down to one fox cub at the moment, and two adults. We saw one cub had been run over on a local road, such a shame! We are hoping this one cub does well, it does come every night, and most mornings around 5-6am. We feed it chub dog food, eggs, nuts and any scraps. The other day it ate a baked potato, and a jam doughnut...more spoilt than Rudey!
Rudey was so glad to be home I bet he hates these longer stays..but we are off to see Hub's mum in a couple of weeks, and a few weeks later we are back to Scotland, this time staying in a friends holiday let, who we met previous times we were there. So we'll do a bit of fishing, hopefully some BBQing, and a lot of laughing!
I wonder why your families cats aren't very friendly? Some cats will go to anyone, and other cats are very aloof. Our Rudey trusts people as long as they are with us, so outside talking to people he is fine, and when people come round, he is also fine. But if he sees someone walking down the road when he's at the front, he runs with his belly on the floor.
Rudey sends a belly flop to Pirate, I'm sure they would get on like a boxing match!
I'm not going to do any more planting this year, purely because we will keep going away, the weather will stay awful till Autumn this year I would imagine, I just can't be bothered. It does look nice outside, I think I'll just admire it, water it, and we'll eat in it and have fun. This weather has been too much for me, how people live a life in this heat I will never know, I think its worse than snow. Shall we both hope for an early ice age?
Christmas is coming! Oh yes I can hear the sleigh bells already...but can't get carried away, I mean its not October yet!
When do you usually plant your pansies? Are you doing much other work in the garden? We plan to build a deck next year, and add some lighting and an arch feature. This year we were supposed to finish the path from the shed to end of extension. But our neighbour has a damp problem on her garage wall, so we are waiting for someone to put some drainage down the side, or we have offered to do it if they can tell us what wants doing. But I don't think they will hurry on it, so that has saved us a job for now. Hub has pretty much finished the garage, and all lighting and new sockets...oh the sockets. It is fabulous, I'm so proud of him, and we both get to benefit from this new fabulous space. We have made lots of things in there already. We still have oak counter top pieces left over from the job, so we might make a table one day.
Well I've rambled on enough, I will upload some more vids to the tube soon, some fox and holiday fluffy vids. We did see a lot of birds on the last hol, a fily of woodpeckers were in the garden almost all day long. I have never nown brave woodpeers,but this lot weren't too bothered when we were in the hot tub outside. It was cute!
