We finally completed the garden, 10 years after moving in to this house, while we did every other room first. 10 years of rubble, weeds and cat poo. It took several hundred quid, lots of timber, two tons of topsoil and 10m2 of lawn, but finally got a garden to take a well-deserved break in!
Things that are great:
- Watching our daughter running around on the lawn, in and out of her playhouse where the rubble used to be.
- Watching our daughter playing in the sandpit that I made with decking off-cuts.
- All of us sitting on the deck eating lunch together in the sunshine.
- Seeing how much the runner beans grow each day.
- Planting our own lettuces and seeing if we can get them before the snails.
- Watching the bees and hoverflies on the flowers.
- Using power tools and wood at weekends to feel like you achieved something more than a Powerpoint presentation or an Excel spreadsheet.
- Drying laundry on the line, instead of on the radiators.
Summer is brilliant. Life is great.
STOP PRESS: We also had a barbeque! Yay for summer evenings!
2 comments:
Well done, it makes all the difference to a house to have a garden, or outside room, that I like to think of mine as. If you go back to May 2008 on my blog you'll see my garden getting renovated, slab by slab.
Well done Shacklemore. It looks really good. Low maintenance too. Good plan !
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