I just love to make potato cakes ...

And eat potato cakes too!



For some time now I have had some willing helpers to do some mashing and mixing, and i can often leave them to it now for the most part, but not way back, when this video footage was taken, Baking with three under three I needed several pairs of hands and I can't imagine how I filmed it too!


So cute to see! And it used to be the only way my children would eat their 'tapeos', but now its a fab way to use up leftovers!

A Round Up .....

A lovely piece of hemming and creative sewing by Daisy, and sent with my sister's handmade Birthday cards ...



We pulled up one of our potatoes-for-schools plants and washed the new potatoes ...



The Fuzzy girls climbed in the Bin when my friend James and his family came to visit! i should have been brave enough to take a pic of James playing my mandolin ... this is only a garden bin though, full of stones dug our from out borders by Steve ...



Daisy pleased with her new 6-inch embroidery hoop and some felt shapes ...



And our porch, all finished now, re pleat with petite wicker chair, is a lovely place to sit, and to play...

spring rain ...

using the stickers and instructions in our potato growers kit, we made this lovely rain gauge ...

and then it rained ... sorry about that ...



following our pipeworks from last year, we had a repair done to the cement on the patio, and of course we had to leave our mark. our hands looked great after the rain had filled them too ...



i like this time of year, the light is brighter, the days longer and things are growing ... soon i hope to see a shoot from one of our aforementioned potatoes ...

planting potatoes ....

time to plan our free home educators spud generating kit ... Matty has out 6 seed potatoes that we have been chitting in the pantry on the window sill ...



Daisy has the stickers that go on the grow bags ... we have 2 varieties ...



Mary wants hers mashed, with cheese, please ...



spuds ready to be covered in orgasmic compost ...



where have they gone???