Hitchin Lavender farm

What a wonderful sunny day and perfect for going to Hitchin Lavender farm.  So after dropping Sophie off at school Ella and i jumped in the car and headed out, with acres of gorgeous lavenders coming out to bloom.  The day was made extra special as it was a meet up bloggers organised by Annie the lady formally know as Mamasaurus but is now AKA Manneskjur,  there were names i recognised like Helen from Actually mummy and new people too which is wonderful it is fab to make new connections such as Sarah from Grenglish and Victoria from Southbourne gardens. Check out this lovely old barn and the beautiful timbers inside was lovely and you could get a nice bit of cake. Outside was great too with a large variety of different lavenders to buy, which i could not resist and i bought 4 a white, pink, purple and blue types the white was really different i have not seen before.  Warning there will be many photos here i could not help myself, lots of lovely blue lavender and when Ella and i stepped into the lavender field the first thing you became aware apart from the beautiful blue lavender was the buzzing as the flowers were alive with bugs, bees and butterflies which i have taken many snaps of as the bugs looked like jewels against the blue lavender, Ella enjoyed watching the bees and trying to grab at the butterflies of which there were thousands of them bright beautiful and fluttery perfect to capture our attention.  It will be great to see the posts from the other ladies as i didn't get to spend time with them so sad, as i had to make sure i was back in time for the school run and my pictures were take while Ella was in my arms wiggling making it rather difficult to snap.  However we both had a glorious time and in 2 weeks i here the whole field will be blooming what a sight that must be.  There are so many great pictures here of the wonderful lavender and wildlife i am thinking i must get round to printing some out and getting them framed for our new house, it much nicer having pictures on the walls that you have taken yourself rather than buying from a shop.  If you would like to see more amazing pictures of lavender check the lovely Manneskjur blog post on Hitchin