VERY PRODUCTIVE DAY!

That's the garden sorted - for now anyway. It looks much tidier after our blitz this morning. How do buttercups manage to survive the winter and come back as strong as ever? That's what I want to know. We've got plenty of plants that haven't survived the severe winter (quite a number of cordylines and a very attractive bottle brush plant have failed to thrive), but buttercups are not amongst them unfortunately.
We let the girs have a run around the lawn this afternoon. The experience does not fill me with confidence however. They raced around like crazed things, chasing in and out of the flower beds and exploring under the trees and behind the bushes - and there was no way they were going to come when they were called, regardless of the veritable truckload of treats we were armed with. In the end it was pretty much a case of throwing ourselves to the ground in the hope of rugby tackling one of them as they sped past. We managed it in the end, but I hate to think how we would cope in a more open space like the dog park or, heaven forbid, the beach!
James has been round for lunch, accompanied of course by his laundry. He's coming down with the cold I had in New York - and STILL have actually. In fact I'm getting a bit fed up with it now.
We had a roast dinner today, which has just confused me further about which day of the week it actually is! I've got that drowsy Sunday afternoon feeling despite it being Monday, so I might go and see if the girls are ready for another walk just to perk me up a bit!