Labor Day weekend

It's a long weekend - yay! It finally stopped raining - yay!

August has been a pretty awful month. It's supposed to be the hottest and driest of the summer, but instead it has rained consistently for over two weeks! This weekend has been much better though - still some cloud around, but plenty of sunshine too.

On Saturday, we invited our good friends Colin and Jo round for food. They were very nice to Steph recently and let her use their computer to prepare her showreel for job hunting, so as a thankyou we made them home-made pizzas, followed by honey cake and custard. Om nom nom nom :) We were all happy and full.

Yesterday, we did some gardening (!). Steph wants to get an allotment plot to grow some stuff, so we went to a work party at Strathcona gardens. This enabled us to put our name down on the waiting list for an allotment there. Apparently, there are about eight others on the list, but free plots get given to those who show up for the work parties once a month, so if we put in the effort we might get lucky. We both enjoyed getting to do some outdoor stuff anyway - we picked apples in the orchard there and helped to clear some weeds. Everyone got to take a share of the fruit home, and Steph has some earmarked for an apple and blackberry crumble - nice.

Today has been pretty lazy so far. In a while, we are going to a BBQ held by some friends and work colleagues. Let's hope this good weather will stick around for a while.