April started off really nice and warm and sunny which was great. On the first Friday, it was the last day of school for the kids, with them off for their Easter break for just over 2 weeks. That evening we had a braai at home and I kicked off a new batch of biltong making again. On the Saturday we had an outdoors day at home in the garden, getting it Spring ready hopefully. Then on Sunday, Ellen was off to Lena's birthday party, so myself, Una and Ian headed down to the Beach Huts for the afternoon. That evening we got around to making our pottery creations, which needless to say, reaffirmed that I won't be going into professional pottery making anytime soon :)

The weather over the first week was great, which was perfect with the kids on holidays, so plenty of time in the garden. After that week, on Saturday 12th, we had tickets to Ardingly Springfest, which was a family festival at the South of England Showground, featuring monster trucks, fairground rides, entertainment as well as live music. It was a rather busy, full-on day there, but we really enjoyed the festival and kids had a blast too! The Sunday was very much a home and chilled out day.

Over the Easter weekend, we didn't have any set plans - but between Southwick Beach visits, the Easter Egg hunt in the Square, visit to The Pirate Park, swimming at Splashpoint, a morning cycle into Hove, afternoon visit to Mackie Park Playground with the adjacent woods and an evening beach braai in rather windy weather... we kept ourselves busy :)

Last week Wednesday the kids headed back to school after their two and a half weeks off, and with the slightly milder weather now here, I decided to (eventually) take down the back garden mesh fencing we had up for the grass, so good to have the garden open up again!

On Saturday we all headed out to Brighton Marina since Ellen had Lila's birthday party there while myself, Una and Ian went for breakfast at The West Quay Wetherspoons. After the party we took a drive over to Centenary Park in Peacehaven for a few hours and then back home by early evening. On Sunday Ellen had Sophia's party in Shark Park, so after picking her up there we drove over to Three Cornered Copse woods for a stroll through there.

The past couple of days have been nice and mild, so quite a bit of time in the garden when we can, so all looking forward to a warm month of May...