Hope that goes well @Busy-Lizzie. Exciting but potentially messy in the short term.
Weekly raid for me tomorrow and OH will come too because he needs to tackle the shop where we've ordered the new sit-on mower. It is late being delivered and the website now says no longer in stock and the phone line is blocked. Humph.
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How exciting @Busy-Lizzie, how long do you expect oi to take? Hopefully not too much disruption for you.
We are having our 3 trees felled tomorrow, he just telephoned this afternoon too. I have mixed feelings about losing them, but they have definitely outgrown their space and are extremely messy, I am forever picking up broken off twigs and branches, some quite big on occasion. It will hopefully allow space for the other trees to grow better and give us back some light in the house too.
Very pleased to have used my new seat at the end of today's gardening session, again mixed feelings because the beautiful flowerbed that was there is now just grass, but practical reality had to be considered, I just can't manage all the gardening and a full time job - that's if we ever get to open again. Anyway, it was pleasant to sit in the sun at the end of the day.
Here it was in it's heyday, but gosh it was a constant struggle to manage.
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I don't know how long it will take, there are 2 rooms to make, insulated plasterboard on walls and ceiling. A big pipe that goes to the septic tank from the loos needs moving outside so will need a trench to be dug. The floor will be tiled, there is a bit of stone wall to point and a shower to install and the taps of the sink probably need changing. There is a loo in the garage already.
Your chairs look nice there @D0rdogne_Damsel, that tree has grown a lot. We are both doing shrub beds now, easier to manage, a few years ago we were doing herbaceous borders.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Quite a project by the sound of it @Busy-Lizzie but it will look good when it's done.
I like your seating arrangement @Dordogne_Damsel and I think I'm also going more for shrubs instead of perennials - hopefully it will make life easier.
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The builder sent an email to say he's starting the garage conversion tomorrow
Weekly raid for me tomorrow and OH will come too because he needs to tackle the shop where we've ordered the new sit-on mower. It is late being delivered and the website now says no longer in stock and the phone line is blocked. Humph.
We are having our 3 trees felled tomorrow, he just telephoned this afternoon too. I have mixed feelings about losing them, but they have definitely outgrown their space and are extremely messy, I am forever picking up broken off twigs and branches, some quite big on occasion. It will hopefully allow space for the other trees to grow better and give us back some light in the house too.
Very pleased to have used my new seat at the end of today's gardening session, again mixed feelings because the beautiful flowerbed that was there is now just grass, but practical reality had to be considered, I just can't manage all the gardening and a full time job - that's if we ever get to open again. Anyway, it was pleasant to sit in the sun at the end of the day.
Here it was in it's heyday, but gosh it was a constant struggle to manage.
Your chairs look nice there @D0rdogne_Damsel, that tree has grown a lot. We are both doing shrub beds now, easier to manage, a few years ago we were doing herbaceous borders.
Quite a project by the sound of it @Busy-Lizzie but it will look good when it's done.
I like your seating arrangement @Dordogne_Damsel and I think I'm also going more for shrubs instead of perennials - hopefully it will make life easier.
among that grass ... is that ‘too English’?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.