Eeek! Yes, this is a face only a mother could love. Max and Pippa spent at least an hour playing silly buggers on the front lawn this afternoon and I was diverted enough from gardening by their antics to nip inside and grab my camera to snap photos of all their shenanigans and the priceless expressions on their faces. Oh, those very silly dogs…

In other news, today the Other Harf hired a “splitter”, which is basically a gigantic axe on a horizontal mechanical pile-driver. He and Dad spent most of the day feeding it bits of ancient stump which in turn it annihilated at the turn of a lever into perfect pieces of kindling, and now we now have a six foot high by eight foot wide pile of firewood all ready for the winter. Result!

And speaking of results, I took Miss 8.7 shopping In Town this morning, as she has totally sprouted in the past couple of months and all her pants/trousers are flapping round the bottom of her shins. Several swipes of the credit card later and she has three pairs of pants, some cool faded black jeans, skinny-leg of course (boot-cut is sooo 90′s, schweetie), two long-sleeved tops and some black canvas slip-on shoes covered in multi-coloured spots. I was never this cool at 8.7 years old, I tell ya that much.

And tonight dinner is being “cooked” by Niece T and Miss 8.7. Their choice of dish is homemade pizza, which each person has to prepare themselves, so that kind of takes all the hard work out of the “cooking” as such, but the thought was there I suppose.

So that’s Saturday, done and dusted. What did you get up to, or what have you got planned?