Another busy busy few days with one thing and another. At the weekend we removed one of the kitchen cupboards. We intend to take down the others as well in time and once we have something to replace them with, as the cupboards are a pain - you can never find anything, there is never enough room, and things get forgotten. We replaced the first one with a plate rack that I bought off Gumtree a couple of weeks ago and already the kitchen is so much nicer and more open.
Again, I forgot to take a picture to compare, but the picture from when the house was sold shows how covered in cupboards the walls are, and with our appliances and jars on the counter that didn't fit anywhere, the kitchen looked and felt very cluttered.

Much better.
The wall to the left of the place rack is empty because we are planning to remove the base unit as well when we get the chance and put our fridge-freezer there.
Will also build a large shelving unit for all of our jars etc. I still haven't really sorted it out, but already much better than having things cluttering up the counters. Once we have moved the fridge, we will slide this along.

 Yesterday I went out in the garden and planted our pear tree. I had planned just to mark out where I wanted a flower bed so I could come back to it in the week, but the first thing my fork hit was concrete. A bit of scraping and digging, and I found a section of path from the old garden, 40 odd years ago. I spoke to our neighbours who have lived here about 35 years, and they said the previous-previous owner had a wonderful garden, with lots of paths - oh heck! The family who moved in at the same time as them did nothing to the garden, and it was left for the brambles to take over. I look forward to returning it to how it was.

I'm off to knit and knatter with Pam today, I'm quite excited. I had planned to go to a baby group in the next village yesterday but Ivy refused to nap all day, and it wasn't fair to drag her out knowing how tired she was. I'm about 2 inches into one of Will's socks, with any joy I'll do another row today and he may have a pair of socks by July!
Oops, Ivy's awake, no title today!