We had the folks round tonight. My folks this time. We are terrible at seeing the people we care about – you know, work, work, work means that when we’re at home we tend to pull up the drawbridge and spend our time on our own mostly.

Recently, we’ve been making a concerted effort to spend some time with the people we love so we had DMs folks here a couple of weeks ago and mine today. This time though, it wasn’t just the parents, it was my little sis, her hubby and her brood too. It is always chaos when they are here. As I’ve said before, when you are just not used to having children around, they are incredibly wearing.

Having said that, they idolise David, who has all sorts of things that they find completely fascinating. Motorbike, Beetle, Electric Guitars, Radio-Controlled Cars……coming here must be like walking into Aladdin’s Cave I think. Anyway, they were entertained by David who hooked up his echo pedal for his leccy guitar onto a mike and they did karaoke to Karma Chameleon and others.

They also do this little hurricane-like spoof of that wonderful Citroen ad where the car becomes a transformer and dances – you know the one – it’s for the C4 I think. They do the dance, with music, then fall to the ground into the car-shape – hilarious!

We had supper in sittings because I was worried about cooking for a whole bunch of fuss-pots who won’t eat this or that so I made a huge batch of pizza dough and sauce (three times the usual quantity) and they each chose what they wanted on as a topping – dunno why I didn’t think of that as a solution years ago!!! BUT – the trouble with this solution is that I only have three pizza trays so we had to do them sequentially. Ah well, I’m pretty sure that the informal nature of this actually seemed to go down quite well.

After putting in a batch of pizzas, I wandered out into the garden where Rosie was enjoying having some willing partners in the tennis ball game and spotted my Mum looking skywards as if for inspiration. After I snapped this one, I took a few more but I like the ‘grab shot’ best and I think my Mum looks exactly as she is – just lovely.

Last year we were in Launceston and two years ago, I was in my herb garden photographing aliens.