Don't play with your food !
The sun finally put in an appearance so after a quick trip to McDonalds indoor play area (Sophie's decided her all-time favourite Happy Meal combo is ... McFish and carrot sticks !!! We didn't twist her arm, honest !!!) we headed off to the garden centre to stock up on plants. I must have a lower boredom threshold than Mike because after 1/2 hour, I wandered off with Sophie and Juliette to look at the animals in the pet section and buy treats for Charlie (carrot flavour biscuits !?!) and Vicky (chewy bones ... decided against the plastic honey flavoured pigs snouts, when I suddenly realised they weren't plastic at all !!!). We watched a cute little white mouse scurrying about and playing in a cage ... until I spotted a snake in the corner of the same cage and realised that was its lunch !!! I pointed this out to Sophie and for the whole of the rest of the time we were there, she wanted to keep popping back to see if the snake was eating the mouse yet !!! (It didn't, luckily !)
Got home and Mike set about planting the new stuff, opened up the growbags, wandered down to get the flower pots, came up and moaned abut the birds throwing dirt around and trying to get the seeds, then discovered that it wasn't the birds at all, Vicky had buried the end of her chewy bone in the growbag !!!