Seeing as neither Mike nor I have updated for a while I might as well give a short summery of recent weeks.

Last weekend we went to visit Mike's Mum in York.
Pretty and very sunny it was too and as she live a stones throw from both the city town centre and some horsey racecourse, there was much of a hubbub on the streets both days.
She was quite chatty to my relief and has the most beautiful of back gardens which she proudly showed me round all her fruits of labour before we went out to look around the dainty streets on Saturday morning. She also ensured we took a home some planting pots and seeds to begin growing our own herbs. So I now have some basil and some rocket on the grow. Mike thinks it all looks like cress, well he would.

Toto, our cat seems to have settled into her new home just fine and Mike installed her catflap last week. Since then she's still reluctant to use it on her own but with a bit of coaxing has managed to figure it out. Mostly she just peers through into the garden especially in the morning when birds are particularly prominant.
On Monday both Mike and Toto got a bit of a fright, some big neighbourley cat, one which we've not seen before found itself in the Kitchen. It was in the day and Toto head downstairs to find this big brown moggy halfway up the kitchen window having knocked some plants and making a bit of a racket. Mike came downstairs and scared the blighter out, by shouting at it and the cat seemed a little distressed by it's experience too so hopefully that will be last of it. Toto needed a bit of TLC and treats before she ventured out from under her hiding place behind the rocking chair in the Den. Yesterday morning however she 'done us proud'. Next door's cat, a scarey-eyed grey cat was staring through the flap at her. This one is actually a nice little thing who travels through the garden every night. Anyhoo after a moment and on spotting me glaring through the window the grey cat turned and Toto dashed out through the flap, big bushey tail puffed up and chased grey-cat down the garden. So she can defend herself then, which is good to know.

Lastly, it was DEFRA's sports day again last Friday.
This time I umpired the rounders matches again and we struggled to beat Kew Gardens in the semi-final heats. Last time they slaughtered us 16 to 2 and a half. This time we made them work for it and with a slightly dodgey qwin they went through by 6 and a half to 6. Next year I tells ya, we'll have em.
Anyway, we played the other semi final losers and won giving us 3'rd place in the tournament.
Meet the Leicester Allstars team:

I enter the mixed-relay this year and, well, we didnt drop the baton and I didn't die after sprinting so .....came 6th, out of 8th. So not last /proud.

Thats all, and thats my lunch over so till next time, I'll trying keeping it positive eh.