summer days Archives - In The Playroom

As it’s been such nice weather recently we have been out in the garden a lot. We have an overgrown section at the back and the boys noticed that some garden berries and apples had started growing.

They really enjoyed exploring here and picking some of the apples. They are still very small and need to grow much more before they will be good to eat, so I had to make sure they left some on the tree so they can still grow!!

In our old house we had blackberries growing in the garden which they loved picking and eating. I’m not sure exactly what the berries here will be, there are some small round black ones and some small round red ones. I couldn’t let them eat anything as I’m not sure! So I let them pick and them put them back down on the floor so that birds can come and eat them if they want.

I quite like this photo of the little apples – experimenting with the macro 😀

After picking some of the little apples they could play picnic with them by putting them in the play table. It’s nice to see them enjoying such a simple thing and being so excited by what they discover growing in the garden!

It is definitely BBQ weather at the moment with all this heat. It seems like everyone is wanting to get outdoors and enjoy it while it lasts. Luckily for me, MoneySuperMarket had given us £50 towards hosting a barbecue for their #thecharcoalchallenge competition (see here for more details)

To make the budget go further we got together with friends and contributed jointly to the barbecue. I was in charge of bringing the vegetarian foods:

vegetarian bbq food for bbq challenge — Vegetarian selection from Tesco

I got a mixture of quorn burgers, bean burger, bbq salmon and bbq prawns. This was all bought from Tesco at 2am the night before as I was in a bit of a rush and knew I wouldn’t get much time in the morning either. Thank God for 24 hour supermarkets 😀

I also wanted to have halloumi and falafel as they are always nice for a veggie BBQ, but couldn’t find it at the time. Never mind though, all was nice, especially the sweet chilli prawn skewers.

My friend’s flat has a large communal garden so that is where we held the barbecue. Luckily one neighbour had all the barbecue equipment, which they kindly lent so we did not need to buy any of that. My friends provided all the meat, which was delicious as you can see below

To make the barbecue more fun for all the children we put out lots of activities like slide, tunnel, paddling pool with loads of plastic balls, and a small bouncy castle and decorated the place with balloons.