Plastic, tadpoles, tents

Excuse the gap of a few days - once my Dad and family went home there seemed to be endless (still are) jobs to catch up on, and now we're finally a bit more organised the weather has been far too glorious so spend time sat indoors. Also, despite the weather I have found myself a little down and muddled these last few days.
On Tuesday Ivy and I went to knit and knatter with Pam again, and I got nearly to the heel on a pair of bed socks before deciding that I didn't like the mohair-type yarn after all and didn't really feel like finishing them. They came off and a new pair in a much more 'me yarn' went on, and I'm on my way to the second toe with those. I finished a pair with some lovely wool Pam gave to me and I adored them, wore them, washed them, and then one blew away off the line in a devastating turn! I'm not holding out much hope of it coming back to me, but I think I have enough wool to knit another. Will post pictures of both when they're finished.
I have spent a little time out in the garden, though not a lot. A gravel path across the garden is the only major change - put in there so I can still get to the beans and onions as we are planning to heavily plant the space between the large bed with the wigwams and the walled area.
It was a fabulous day on Saturday. We spent the morning running around the house getting jobs done, and FINALLY unpacking the two remaining boxes of bits and bobs. Really I should have just chucked the contents as it's  nothing we've needed for the last month. I'm not quite there yet, but I can feel another purge coming on.
After that we walked out to the greengrocers in Glanaman. I've been really conscious about the amount of waste and recycling we've been producing creeping up, and it's been making me feel pretty guilty. I think there are quite a few changes we can and should make, and reducing our super market shopping is a big one. I am very eager to work towards becoming Zero Waste, if that is a possibility, or as close to Zero Waste as possible. Less waste in our foods is a part of it, and using the car less is another, although we use that very little anyway. Glanaman is about a 3 mile walk and was fabulous in the sunshine. Ivy slept in the connecta and we took the granny trolley and filled it up for £13 and zero plastic. On the way back we stopped at a pub in Garnant and had a cider in the sun, then found a slightly longer, but off-road walk back to Brynaman, and then back down to Cwmgors.
We went to Swansea in the afternoon to pick up seeds and a few shrubs. I'm hoping to come by a greenhouse and be working mainly with my own seeds next year.
Sunday, which was Mothers Day, was very nice again. Beautiful warm sunny weather and a day spent mostly out in the garden, and then in the afternoon a short walk to a place where we saw frogspawn a couple of weeks ago to check on the new tadpoles - there are thousands! We will go up again next week to see their little legs.
That's about it. I only have more pictures of the garden, so here they are!