My shrub roses are flowering.

Abundantly this year!
I have four different ones.
A very busy morning with the two youngest grandchildren.
They also enjoyed seeing the Woodpecker on the feeders, like their older siblings last week.
Only today a rival Great Spotted Woodpecker also came along. News about the fat balls must’ve reached him!
This meant that the children had a grandstand view of them having a tussle, pecking each other and generally in a flap!
Our 9 year old grandson wanted to make icecream in a bag..He told us about it the last time he was here.
Grandad gathered the simple ingredients together yesterday.
So this morning the attempt was made.
Here’s the recipe:

1/2 cup Soya milk (our grandson is lactose intolerant) but whole milk usually.
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon sugar
1/3 cup rock salt
ice
1 gallon bag
1-2 sandwich bags

Pour milk, vanilla, and sugar into the sandwich bag. Add a little chocolate syrup if you’d like to have chocolate ice cream.
Push the air out of the bag and zip it shut. You might want to double bag to avoid spills. If so, place your sandwich bag inside another sandwich bag and zip it shut.
Shake the bag and squish it around to combine ingredients.
Add ice to your gallon bag until it is about half full. Add the rock salt.
Place your sandwich bag inside the gallon bag and zip it shut.
Shake, shake, shake it up until your ice cream freezes – around ten minutes in most cases. I suggest wearing gloves or wrap the bag in a towel so their hands don’t get too cold.
Add your toppings and enjoy!

He then with grandad’s help doing some of the shaking, produced some passable icecream. Amazingly enough..
He and his sister, 6 yrs old, then enjoyed it at snack time with grated dairy free chocolate!
His sister had been sitting at the table with a puzzle book, doing some colouring by numbers, and then planting some more seeds in the garden, which she loves doing.
Her last lot are now already above the soil. She loved seeing them. I netted them against the birds last week. It will be a very colourful display of they all manage to survive.
Just before we took them home at lunchtime, they had a short time in the garden with the Stomp Rocket, which is always great fun, watching the plastic “rockets” shooting up into the air!
(Screenshot in extras.)