Snowboard havoc

Three years ago, we spent an incredible two months being snowboard bums in Canada (if you're interested, check out our pictures here, here, here, here and here). During that time, we became very attached to our Burton snowboards! Now, back in the big city, I wanted to remember that trip of a lifetime by having our personalised snowboards on display permanently.

So, after a bit of internet research, I finally purchased some specialty snowboard mounts from Hangtime USA. Next, I payed an extortionate amount of import duty (thanks Royal Mail!), and then our snowboards lay around for about a month in the hallway.

Today my handyman put them up - and they look amazing!

Check them out!

Whole lotta snowboard love

Vege patch havoc

I have the opposite of a green thumb, it's brown. Yet I strangely love being out in my garden pottering about.

This weekend after planting some bulbs and then weeding my mint patch I got carried away and moved onto the larger, raised, overgrown sandpit/garden bed. It was previously a covered sandpit (complete with discarded sand toys) but after years of neglect it was covered with weeds, debris and was a big eyesore.

So I cleared it all off, rescued some plastic cows and then took a trip to Homebase for a LOT of compost. I tried not to go too overboard on the plants, and asked my wise younger sister, who has a green thumb, what to grow. She suggested tomatoes, and told me to plant marigolds next to them and also basil. So I got all of that, plus two strawberry plants. I later read you can't plant strawberries and tomatoes together, so they've gone into two pots on the edge of the garden bed.

See my weekends efforts below... and I'll report back in a few weeks... but only if:
a) the fox hasn't eaten everything
and 
b) if the plants are still alive, and I'm eating gorgeous tomato and basil salads with strawberries for dessert!

a vast improvement from a weed covered sandpit!