Category: Back Garden
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End of September 2018
So, I missed a week, and to be honest, weekly updates were probably getting a bit tedious. So here’s a round up of the last couple of weeks of September. The car park was full again 🙂 The neighbours on the caravan site cleared the Confer hedge trimmings that had been in the Dyke since […]
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8th – 11th September
This weekends guest workers were Phil and Wendy. Thanks Chaps! …with Andy supervising the grass cutting A trip to Alford. Some nice buildings, And they were auctioning second hand wares on a corner of the market – ye olde equivalent of a pound shop? And as we’d had the chimneys swept, it would […]
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25 August -3 September – Long, long weekend
So this was a much longer visit overall, a long bank holiday weekend, stretched into two weekends, and the week in between. There was a changing workforce, from just me for a couple of days, with up to 5 some days. It was generally good weather so once Christine had gone, more work […]
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Weekend 3 -17/20th August
Another long weekend, and those helpful elves are back again… Painting and plastering Rebuilding the stairs Cutting the grass (Again…) Taking down fences Clearing the goat’s stable Tidying fruit bushes, picking grapes and tomatoes, fixing shelves, testing the new wagon and finding butterflies in an old feeder
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Weekend 2 – 10/13th August
A long weekend. And lots of help. Christine came down to scope out the decorating required, and Dad and Dorothy came to assist in the mobile country cottage. Lawn mower was commissioned and tested Orchard tidied, and a few apples picked Meals were eaten Ceilings were painted and things were measured Wood from store demolition […]
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First Day Tour – Front and Back Garden
The front Garden is fairly small, and one of the few places with purely ornamental plants. The back garden has been partly lawn, and mostly goat paddock – with another shelter for them there. And yes, it does go beyond the little fence all the way to the trees at the end.