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Another lovely weekend which was cool enough to actually get some work done in the garden. I started off just tackling the weeds between the patio paving slabs, and ended up hosing the dirt off the slabs. Mind you, it does look a lot better! And I did get a bit of reading time afterwards.

I've done some work on the computer to bring aout the details of the slabs.

I hope you all enjoyed the sunny weekend! We had the usual jobs to do, and moving all of the things back to the lounge/dining room after having the carpet fitted. But most of the time was spent keeping cool in the shade in our garden. We got the hammock out and I managed to be on it for a while. Our son was hogging it for most of the time though.

It was a busy weekend - we visited Alnwick. I took my pro camera and didn't take any photos of the beautiful town! It was raining though and we were supporting a photographer friend of mine who was opening a new studio. We also visited the fabulous temporary exhibition of Jim Kay illustrations for new Harry Potter editions at the Bailiffgate Museum.

It was half term last week and we took the opportunity to spend a few days with my brother-in-law and his family in London. On one of the days we drove across to Margate. We went to the Turner Contemporary Gallery, had great fish and chips (on National fish and chips day!) and spent some time on the beach.

A day late for the 52 Weekends project photo but we have had a bank holiday! It was past time to tackle the weeds in the patio this weekend so out came the gloves and the trowel. I didn't get as much weeding done as I would've liked as I had a portrait session later on.

Luckily the next day was dry and cool so I managed to get all of the dandelions out of our block paving at the front.

My son ran the North East Children's Cancer Run for the first time this year. He was determined to do the five mile course, but as it was his first event, we talked him into starting with the three mile course. He ran (and walked) it in just over half an hour. He agreed with us afterwards that three miles was enough! Maybe with some more training he can tackle the five mile one next year!

Here is his well deserved medal.

We were child-free this weekend so had a fairly lazy time, but we did get out for a bike ride on Sunday morning. It was only my second ride of this year - the weather has been quite bad and we've had other commitments. It was great to get out in the sunshine and fresh air! Here's to many more to come this year.

I finally got some time to spend in the garden this weekend. I love this time of year when the apple tree is laden with blossom. A promise of all of the lovely apples to come this year.

Jobs this week included the dreaded weeding, but I felt so much better when (most of) it had been done. The garden certainly looks better. I even got some time to sit and enjoy the garden after working in it. That's always a bonus isn't it?

I was away on a residential business training course over the weekend so I had to do my 52 weekends project on my phone camera.

35 of us were staying at the Novotel in Kingston Park for two nights. A bit of an irony for me as I live less than a mile away! I also hold my wedding consultation meetings at this hotel.

Last weekend was quite hectic and chilled at the same time. How can that be? Well it was the final two performances for my son in the Newcastle Gang Show on Saturday and also the end of the Easter holidays. I had only realised I hadn't done a 52 weekends shot when my celebratory pizza arrived yesterday. Hence the phone photo! I had also been tracking my brother's progress doing the London marathon so nothing much got done on Sunday.