50ft - Makka Pakka is my favourite too! Dd knows the names of all of the characters, but is currently into Thomas the Tank Engine - both the tv series and the original books. She can name any engine you point to .
Star, Winchester is near us and lovely, we go to the Christmas market there, though never actually buy anything.
Myjob, glad to hear your washing machine is behaving again, what would we do without them? In fact I don't know how people coped with kids before all the modern gadgets and tv
Aubergenie, sad about your veg patch, but we've successfully grown cherry tomatoes in hanging baskets, and potatoes in bags. Could you maybe get some planter boxes for your patio and fill them with veg instead of flowers? Not quite the same as a veg patch, but enough to stop any veg-growing withdrawal symptoms .
We've had an interesting weekend so far - we went to Venture photography studios yesterday to see the results of our photo session (my grandmother bought us a voucher for Xmas and I didn't have the heart not to use it). The session was cr@p as they said they only did one style of photography (not the style that we wanted) and the photos were not great. We got our free pic, but there was no way we were going to buy more. They charge you £600 for a memory stick with 15-20 pics on and they are print protected and general photo prices range from £150 to £3,500 . Actually I nearly died laughing when the guy described them as 'value for money'.
We've been swimming and to the park today, but it felt really like autumn already.... I can't believe summer is nearly over . Dd was picking blackberries and I was telling her about me doing the same thing as a child and got a real shock to realise that my memories of blackberrying are at least 20 years old. I'm feeling rather nostalgic for those days and some of the people who were around then....
Anyway, I'm off to bed, night all!