Toby the rover

Used a new recipe last night for rhubarb cake. It was easy and very light and tasty. I'll probably put more rhubarb in next time though. 

It was used as a birthday cake for Sam in Zac's. (I'd taken two slices out before I left the house . . .)

You can't tell that Sam is only pretending to blow out candles, can you? It was so windy I couldn't even light them!

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Lovely walk with Husband, Daughter and two dogs this morning. Lovely until Toby wandered off. That in itself isn't unusual - he's a great rover - but we knew a dog he was obsessed with was also out on the tip so I took the path up to the road to make sure he hadn't gone that way. He hadn't but he didn't rejoin Husband until I'd walked to the road and was on the way back. At least two miles! (-ish, or a lot less.)

Then it was back out into the garden for more clearing. Ta-dah . . .

The bulk of the clearing and clearing up is done now. I still have to work out how to get rid of the bamboo. I suspect it will be cutting them back each time they appear until they give up hope. We've also got a couple of tree stumps that will need digging out before I can replant. I'm thinking azaleas for some late Spring colour. 

And I can almost feel the roses beginning to straighten up as they realise they don't have to lean to find the sun.