Adventure is not always just bad planning...

... Sometimes it's just what you need.

Every now and then I like to go on city adventures, we live in an amazing city but occasionally when I've been so busy living in it I forget what it's actually like! 

So this week, on a lovely sunny day, we went on one of our explorations to try and go somewhere unfamiliar where we felt lost. We got lost alright, but look what we found...

...An unusually placed apple...

... A man buried up to his chest...

... And a sign to make everything better.

Our mini exploration was fun, especially this super slippery slope!

(Afterwards we saw a sign then said please don't slide on the slopes... woops! What do they expect if they construct a super steep slippery soft slope with a walkway up it??)

But as we sat on a bench watching other people slide down the slope, spot the sign and scamper away, we realised that what we REALLY wanted to do on such a lovely day was to spend some time in our garden.

We share our garden with 5 other flats, but no one else uses it except to hang up their laundry. It was a wilderness when we arrived and we have slowly tamed it over the past two years with help from a neighbour. So as a reward for our hard (maybe unappreciated?) work, we decided we were allowed to make one of the beds a little bigger and plant some vegetables in it, maybe our neighbours will be inspired to join in? I certainly hope so. 

First things first, I needed some new gloves...

... My old ones fell apart. So we set to work digging up the turf along the bed...

...putting my knot tying skills to the test by making a shelter for our spring onions...

...and finally relaxing with a glass of home made lemonade...

... yum!

Steve was inspired to mow the lawn so it looks really neat now. 

If only the mysterious vanishing builders would come and finish our wall then we could plant things out without worrying about having to leave enough room for them to trample over without destroying our plants!

=D

I hope you're all enjoying the lovely sunny weather and having some mini adventures of your own, whether they are far away or even in your own back garden!

xxx