What a glorious weekend – so much sunshine, and chocolate.

I hope Easter was good for you all – it was delicious for me. No shortage of time spent in the garden. I have three veggie beds in order and looking very spick and tidy. I have to construct elaborate devices to try to distract the various interlopers in the garden from messing in my beds. It never works and I have a summer long fight over territory. The cats, foxes and the badgers insist it belongs to them and I say it is mine. I currently have lots of Christmas baubles dangling over one of the beds so it looks very jolly. I did a kind of cats cradle effect over another in garden twine and Sylvester takes great delight in showing me how easily he can work the ground in the small gaps between the string.

There seems to be such a lot of toads this year. The frogs are always around in vast numbers in February and March and the toads take up residence a month or so later but not usually as many as there are out there at the moment. Toads are quite different from frogs in their character and I have a special affection for the toads.. They are much less brash and noisome. And I just love the way they walk. Frogs jump, toads walk.

I also enjoyed lots of cooking this weekend. I made these humongous hot cross buns which were pretty yummy and I made chocolate lollipops to give people.

And then there was dancing. Spent a splendid day out in Hastings yesterday dancing. We started opposite the Standard, then across from the Hastings Arms, then in the garden of the Stag, and after that opposite the Albion. We can’t be too far from beer selling establishments. Then we toddled up the West hill via the funny peculiar railway to roll our eggs.