What an arse Wreck and Wolf. Seems you’ve both been struck by lightening twice this week. Hope it turns out to be a false alarm Wreck. And enjoy your sparkling oven (briefly) Wolf
The eye is a little better, thanks for asking Girlie and unescorted. It’s the second infection I’ve had this winter and it’s been years since I last had one. I think my immune system is struggling at the mo! I am still streaming with cold and have a sore throat but the cough seems to have tailed off a bit thankfully.
Kew was pretty nice. I thought we’d made an expensive mistake when it started to rain about 30 mins after we arrived (and it was colder than I expected) but it only rained for about 3 minutes and then the sun came out and the wind dropped. It warmed up a lot and was a beautiful blue sky day in the end so we managed to picnic without being cold. The dc seemed to really enjoy that part, especially the giant confetti cookies 
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Unfortunately once the picnic was over ds wanted to go straight home and got quite difficult so home we went. Dd slept in the buggy all the way back so at least she was okay. It was quite an expensive day for spending less than 3 hours there (total entry fees almost £40 and then tube fare for me, dh has a travel card) but that’s life with DS - overall I’ll count it a success! though he’s been a nightmare since we got home
Girlie that’s so cool about your grandad and obviously where you get your green fingers from. I can’t believe you’ve never been, with the family connection! Hope you make it one day.
We missed the peak of the crocuses, which was a couple of weeks ago, but the magnolias were amazing. Pic attached!
Someone wanted to know what we had for a picnic... nothing exciting, sadly! I love an excuse to do an exciting picnic but unfortunately only I appreciate it . We had roast chicken sandwiches (in naice granary bread, cheese sarnie for ds), confetti cookies, strawberries and cherries. And hard boiled quails’ eggs for me and DD (given to us by pils last weekend as they overbought, and it turned out dd was a fan 
) We had popcorn and satsumas too but didn’t get round to eating them.
The confetti cookie recipe I used is this one. It’s American measures but I have cups anyway. I used 240g butter for the ‘cup’ and as we don’t have cake flour in this country I just used plain flour for the lot but for the last cup I put in maybe 3 tblsp cornflour and then topped up with plain flour. I tried the size of cookie they suggested but they were huuuuuge so I went for 2.6oz ish (measured the first few just to see). Cooked for 9-10 mins at 200c fan (I suspect my oven is a little slow). They were really good, still squishy in the middle like a proper American cookie. I think they’d work well with choc chips or nuts or whatever instead of the confetti
www.modernhoney.com/funfetti-cookies/