Cake

S has arrived back for a while (we're never sure how long). To mark the occasion and that of his recent birthday, E had made a cake.

Dad would be pleased to see the train candleholders still in use. To give an idea of their age, he often recalled that he had to go searching for another carriage when I turned four...

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Meanwhile, we arranged where we wanted the plants from the latest bootload in the newly prepared bed...

and went and got another bootload.