paddling, hens and our beach

The boys can't keep out of the padling pool and are getting through far too many sets of clothes each day just now, a couple of days ago young Stanley was very keen to join them, Ruan and Bindle are inspecting one of the two new scarecrows in the background. Bindle was the main architect while Ruan and I spent a couple of days uprooting and moving a fence that used to separate the trees from the rest of the garden but now runs across the bottom of the garden to try and keep the jabali at bay. I am going to try and finish the fence at the top of the garden today but the ground is full of stones and progress is slower.

The boys discovered the new PhotoBooth effects and actually appeared to get on with each other for a few mins the other day. Rowan has been cutting his hair again.
Some hens are happy with ordinary eggs...

Snowbird is sitting on some special ones and is very proud of them although the other hens keep laying proper ones next to her and she takes them in too... not sure what she will do when a load of little Kinder figures hatch.

The boys now think of Pantin as 'our beach' it is only a few kilometers further than Vilarrube and is a rather wonderful place although also has a lot of dangerous water but it does not have the sinking quicksand that we keep finding at Vilarrube. There are some lovely sand dunes and pretty patches of hotentot fig.Great places for boys to jump off.

And for dads to rest.