a sad morning..

Not quite sure where to start today. We woke up to some terrible news about the rabbits. Our visitors were actually up before us, and had been to see the baby bunnies. Unfortunately some time during the night, a fox and been to see them too, and he took all of them. Mummy and the bunnies. So sad. The poor things never had a chance. I now have to somehow tell the neighbours 6 year old, when he comes back off of holiday. I did find the grandparents phone number and called them to try and get in touch with the holiday makers before they come home to an empty cage. But the grandfather reckons we shouldn't tell them until the last day of their holiday. But I am not 100% sure he is even going to do that. I hope he does, cause the first thing the little boy is sure to do, is run to see if his rabbit has had the bunnies...
Oh dear. My boys took it really well, then again it isn't their rabbit. But Robert was very matter of fact about it. Telling me "the rabbits are in the foxes tummy, Mummy! Can the fox get in here?" "No, Darling", "That's good Mummy, we don't want him in here do we!?, Mummy when Julian comes home, he'll have to get a new rabbit won't he Mummy?!" and so on...

Other than that bad news we had a nice day. Our visitors went cycling this morning, we didn't join them for a majority of reasons, one - Robert hasn't driven very far on his bike yet, a tour that length was not for him, two - Richard hasn't got a bike or bike seat, but most importantly, neither Florian or I have a bike that works! Mine hasn't seen daylight in over 5 years. So we gave that a miss, but we did join them for lunch at their halfway mark. Which was great. After lunch we found a playground for the kids. And then it was time to say good-bye, as after their ride it was straight back home for them.

The boys are so knackered, that putting them to bed today was easy, they didn't even need extra juice! Richard missed his midday nap for the third day running and was actually asking to go to bed all afternoon, but of course we didn't get home til about 3pm, so it was too late.
Tomorrow he can nap! Who knows maybe they will even have a lay in tomorrow!
We don't have to go shopping our neighbour gave us some zucchini from his garden. The other day I asked if he had some growing could he show Robert them, as Robert wanted to know how they grow. Well they are now ready for picking so he showed Robert and Richard them and gave them one each for dinner! Oh and a cucumber too, as they were ripe too. We have already finished the cucumber -mmmh delicious.
Bye 4 now