Cooking for cousins No2. Dry brined roast chicken & Yorkshires. No1 was hard fried salmon + macaroni salad. 3 Barnsley lamb chops wi mint & beetroot sauce & their first taste of Jersey Royal potatoes. All enjoyed.

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Olli & Sirpa 3, got them home. Youngest son Caius called to hear of the already legendary forced tram trip to Rochdale.

 

Welcoming Finnish cousins Olli & Sirpa 2. Grey Horse, Great Portland St, Manchester.

 

Welcoming Finnish cousins Olli & Sirpa 1. On the Manchester tram (Sirpa concealed).

 

Saw 2 grey squirrels on Manchester Rd at 06.20 this morning. This one ran across it in a panic and was fairly lucky to get across alive.

 

Using my right foot to scrub with.

 

Spiders. 5 with bumbags close up, and a clutch of spiderlings, of I think, zebra spiders, the other side of the water feature.