Coffee Break sketch......To my Son

A day off spent with my son, out in the country at mum & dad's aka Granny & Grandads.

The sun is shining, the coffee is never far away and I'm sitting outside relaxing.

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Homemade Dad......the front garden clear up (at last)

The small garden at the front of our home has be neglected since we've moved in, the inside was the main concern over the later Autumn, winter and much of the Spring months getting everywhere decorated and the way we want it (still many wee things still to be finished off 🙄).

So when I have had a chance to get into the gardens, I have mostly be working on developing the back ones. Starting on the vegetable garden and building a pagoda which also needs finishing but is well on its way to completion. Leaving the front garden to get the occasion grass cut and that was about it.

It was starting to get really unsightly, so on Sunday I decided it was time to face the issue head on and to get it looking at least respectable. 

We had a few near misses with major pile ups, but they managed to survive.

My very keen helper hard at work.

Getting the ground work done, amazing how a few hrs can make a difference to the way the garden looks. 

Now you may not notice the difference from before I started the days graft but this has been a good tidy up. I have finally managed to get the Christmas tree planted that we brought with us last year when we moved here. That was planted three days ago and fresh buds are already growing, so that move from pot to earth looks to have worked.

These bushes have been trans-planted (like that pun?) from what is turning into the vegetable garden to the front garden, to hopefully grow and give some coverage to the right side of the garden, which is open to the elements.

I managed to save a few Lavenders from being skipped. They are at this moment, looking a bit worse for wares but I am hopeful that by being planted here they will start to flourish. 

The Christmas tree from the pathway.

The machinery from the building squad.

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Coffee Break sketch......not to be trusted

The sunny weather in Northern Ireland just keeps on surprising us and it is another wonder week off great weather. I managed to get back out into the garden on Sunday and get started on the forgotten front garden. It has been left to grow while I get the chance to work in the main gardens. So yesterday I decided to tackle that problem with my young apprentice in tow. I'll get another blog up about how that all went.

Its a start of another week and another say closer to a couple of weeks off, not that I'm wishing time away but I'm deffo looking forward to a few days not having to set an alarm to get up for work. 

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Coffee Break sketch......looking optimistic

Haven't been blogging that much recently and I have I no reason why. I've still been taking time to get a sketch drawn at coffee time, just haven't got round to sharing them on the site.

The weather has changed and we are now back to the normal kind of Northern Irish Summer, four seasons in one day.

I'll try harder to get a quick blog completed each day.

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Coffee Break sketch......Fathers & Sons

I have a few exciting projects that I am working on at the moment and it's great to be finally getting something worked. One project is a long standing one with me and I'm finally getting back to working on one of the projects evolving these guys.

The other will be an illustrative project with the boss as the main character. Hopefully get started on this in the coming days.

The sun is still blazing away and it looks at least another week of this beautiful sunny weather. Remember those cold, dark nights will come soon enough. Enjoy the colours while we can. Don't get me wrong the festival period is still by far my favourite time of the year but it's definitely nicer having a sunny summer rather Northern Ireland's normal ones.

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