Scarborough Fair

So, another month has passed - time I updated you all on the goings on here at Le Domaine du Chasselas. In contrast to the dreadful UK weather, we have had some nice sunny days so there has been lots going on outside. The herb garden is looking good  and I have spent some pleasant afternoons foraging around whilst sheltered by the lovely new fence:

Here I am sitting in the parsley:

 

and the sage.........

.......can you guess what the other herbs might be? My more mature fans will simply refer to the title of this post for the answer - younger ones may have no idea what I am talking about as I don't believe that there has been a recent modern mangling of this particular song - if any of my readers feel strongly about modern manglings of classic songs,  I would refer you to the excellent Greg Davies DVD  "Firing cheeseballs at a dog" which has a wonderful rant about this subject.


Anyway, I digress.......Elsewhere in the garden, the mammoth task of cutting the grass has begun - as you can see, it was pretty high, but now it's starting to look like a proper garden:

The new games room was finished in time for the party, and I had a busy day trying out all the equipment:

The main thing I learnt was that you should never play poker with a cat - mostly because they are cats, and can't hold the cards in their paws.

After I had quality assured the games room, it was time to put my PR hat on and wait for the guests to arrive:

Happily, no-one was deterred by the thunder and lightning and a jolly evening was had by all. Lots of people brought gifts - many of which could be eaten or drunk - I was particularly impressed by this lovely chocolate lion (although I'm not sure where lions feature in the Easter story - you'd think they would just eat the rabbits?). There was also a giant chocolate egg, but that disappeared before I could get a picture of it - wonder where it could have gone?!

 The lion was a bit big for me to manage all by myself.......

.....so I had to enlist the help of some friends and we soon made short work of it:

Well, lunch-time approaches, so that's all for now, but I'll be back soon with tales of a busy Easter weekend........