celebrate

My favourite kind of celebration this weekend - having all the kids down. There was a fair bit of cooking and eating, some sitting around the fire pot and the planting of some trees.

(Some rather grainy and blurry snap shots!)

A watched pot never boils

Beanie buddies

A spot of fire contemplation

The resident chefs cooking up a storm

Gnocchi making, with the genuine article gifted to Rachel from family in Italy when we visited last year

Meanwhile outside the trees were going in (there was a slight oh oh moment when a water pipe was damaged - a wonderful local plumber fixed it up in no time)

And the gnocchi was very very good...