life with nelly: sleeping better, new toys in the house , getting the garden designed...

I am feeling better Nelly is sleeping better - although I now have to sit with her and rock her as they do at nursery! well hopefully this will only be a passing phase.....here's hoping - she still wakes in the night and wants to come into our bed, so am very loathe to take the sides off the cot and convert into bed!

Rob has a brand new toy in the house - A Geneva sound system - looks like one speaker on a stand but does a whole lot more - Ipod, CD , plugs into the projector we bought and we can now watch films on our perfect white walls at 71 inches wide without having to have a nasty plasma in the drawing room!...I approved...

Last Monday our good friend Lesley came over to look at our garden - we rented a house from her and Stephen in oxfordshire in 1995 and have been friends ever since - she is a garden designer and they now live by the sea in Swanage but all her work is in Oxfordshire so we asked her to come and see our garden , I trust her enormously and Rob will trust what she does so I am really looking forward to a amnageable garden with some style... What I really need is trees and hedging which I want to get done in the autumn ...

We had a houseful this weekend = hungarian cousins were over and came for lunch on saturday and our great friends kate and Frank popped in !!! from Cornwall ! I had been moaning about the fact that nobody around here ever pops in and they called on Saturday afternoon to say they were taking their brother to Bristol airport and would come over - so they arrived at about 9 00 Nelly woke at 11 30 to total surprise that Kate was here...we had a lovely Sunday, breakfast and papers, pub lunch, walk through the cornfields and football in the garden...