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  • Summer Holiday Clubs 2010 Another school year over and it’s time for the summer holiday clubs!I love this time of year… lazy Saturday mornings, a real treat for me!(no Pumpkin Patch!!) Tuesday mornings however… a mad rush to prepare for the day’s events! The Holiday club is a relaxed mix of preparing lunch ….following a […]

  • Yummy Scrummy and very Messy!

    The Pumpkin Patch travelled to Llwynhendy recently to run cooking with the family classes for a group of Mums and toddlers. The Family Center at Llwynhendy was an amazing venue, well equiped, spacious with plenty of electric sockets for all the induction hobs and griddles that we needed! We cooked savoury casseroles and pies and […]

  • Where have I been? …..Back in 1890! My posts have been few and far between recently… things have got a little busy beyond ‘The Pumpkin patch’. It hasn’t been the garden either! Although we have been busy planting both inside and out. As you can probably see, I’m not in my usual wellies and gardening […]

  • Outside at Last! The long winter months are now over… well not quite but there’s plenty to do in the garden right now. After months of telling myself that it’s too soon to get out there, and too cold by far, I can now justifiably get my wellies on and dig!!! at last!! * * […]

  • Sunshine at Last! Sunshine at last!! It was so great to get out and preparing the raised beds ready for spring. . . ..early I know, but who can resist gardening on such a glorious Saturday morning? William, Louis and Thomas clearing their raised beds and making the most of the great weather! We cleared […]

  • Cookery and Craft at Christmas Christmas seems like a very long time ago now, but I was searching through some Pumpkin Patch photos recently and discovered this one – our Christmas Cookery and Craft workshop. If they look tired it’s because they cooked their own Christmas turkey lunch, went on a country walk to collect […]

  • Happy New Year!! * 2010 * It wasn’t a white Christmas in Carmarthen… though most of it was spent below zero degrees……. But it has been a white New Year!!! Pumpkins in the Snow… Party time!… Anya’s New year cup cakes.. All snowy and white and shimmering! She made them, baked them and decorated them… […]

  • Good luck to the bees!! * * * * * * In May, with the help of our village school teacher, Paul, we set up two bee hives in the garden! Joshua my ten year old singlehandedly built the actual hives, I helped to paint them and Paul delivered the bees! * * * * […]

  • Tidy Up Time!!

    What else is there to do when it’s blowing a gale? Well, I can think of plenty actually!! There’s the ironing, cleaning….. but nothing as satisfying as clearing out the shed and sorting out the pots whilst the rain lashes down! The Pumpkin Patch kids gloves all hung up ready for next time. Spades and […]