{"id":15914,"date":"2014-03-31T09:48:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T08:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15914"},"modified":"2014-03-31T09:48:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T08:48:47","slug":"mothers-day-weekend-spring-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/mothers-day-weekend-spring-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day Weekend and Spring is in the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weekend turned out quite nice in the end. After a fairly damp camp with the Scouts<\/a> up at Devil’s Bridge on Friday night, the sun came out on Saturday and temperatures reach 17.3\u00baC, the hottest day of the year so far.<\/p>\n

A First Time for Everything<\/h2>\n

I spent the afternoon cleaning cars and working in the garden. Cleaning cars is something I rarely do, but seeing as it it a new car for me I wanted to look after it at least for a while and give it a good checkover. I couldn’t very well do mine and not do Anna’s though, especially as it was Mother’s Day the following day so I spent quite a while washing, waxing and polishing both cars. They do looke btter for it as well and for once in my life my car was actually cleaner than my bike. I couldn’t leave it like that for long though so washed and polished my bike too.<\/p>\n

It was then time to do some work in the garden, mowing the lawn and generally tidying up. Morgan came out to help for a while as well and we got a fair bit done preparing beds for vegetables, edging borders and weeding. There’s still loads to do out there of course but it is beginning to look a little more under control.<\/p>\n

Mothering Sunday<\/h2>\n

Sunday was even warmer and my day started with my usual run and swim in Machynlleth. Nothing too special as far as that was concerned this week, but it was the first early\u00a0morning run of the year without a jacket and hat. I then did some shopping for ingredients to make the latest recipe box we’d received from thespicery.com<\/a> and headed back home.<\/p>\n

We had sort of planned to join the Devils’ Bridge Walkers on their end of month walk but decided it would make more sense to have a fairly chilled day and hopefully get a few outside chores done too. We also had to pop into town for Morgan to spend his World Book Day voucher that was due to expire. So, after the obligatory phone calls to Mums we headed into Aberystwyth, did some shopping, took some stuff to the tip and visited the garden centre. This took longer than I thought so it was already mid afternoon by the time we got back, which\u00a0didn’t leave a huge amount of time for gardening. Especially seeing as it was time for tea and cake first!<\/p>\n

The sun was out though and temperatures were almost reaching 20\u00baC. They actually only made it to 19.3\u00baC here in Ynyslas, but that was plenty warm enough for a bee inspection and then some more gardening.<\/p>\n\n\t\t