Stretching is innate

I forgot to mention that I am the proud mother of a gorgeous 9 month old boy...
As is usual, for the last part of his time asleep, he comes into our bed.
When I woke this morning he was still asleep, but then was roused by the sound of my alarm clock. I looked over to him and saw that the first thing he did upon waking was stretch his arms, like the rest of us adults do...

It is then I thought, well no-one's taught him to do that, I don't particularly do it, nor does his dad, so he's not copying any of us....so it must be an innate bodily response to waking....

hmmm - I pondered this thought on my commute this morning - the memory of his cute little half asleep face and perfect little arms stretching in the glorious expanse (in his opinion) and much coveted territory that is mum and dad's bed!

Now at work, and procrastinating I've Googled said phenomenon.....nothing much to be read other than this funny trivia site!

www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question59407.html

From barking dogs to tree bark mulch

Moving from a gritty part of north east London to a garden city in the home counties was always going to be a life changing event for us. However, neither of us could have known the extent to which the perma-green of our new town would inspire us to do what seemingly every other resident of this town has done: to care for, and make beautiful, our garden.

As busy professionals both commuting daily, and with three young kids between us we don't have a huge amount of time to devote to our project, nor do we have any existing expertise in the green arts, beyond a few pansy growing attempts in our last dwelling. We take some of the advice we're given (from friends, books, TV etc. more on which later) but much of what we've done so far has been more of the Jamie Oliver approach - i.e. just throwing stuff together casually, but artfully, and hoping, feeling, it will, eventually look and smell good. So far, we've been really pleased with how things have turned out.

So this blog has two functions really:

It's a means to chart the progress of our garden city garden for our own sake.

BUT.....

We also hope that all you busy, but inspired amateur gardeners out there will learn from our mistakes, find or give us inspiration, post tips, and make comments on our progress so far...

Primula Viali

Wallflower

Jasmine