Yesterday we undertook a day trip to visit my Aunt who lives in Manchester. There was a time when we always used the same tried and tested route to her house. That was until I purchased a new SatNav last year and tested it out on a visit to my Aunt. The SatNav took us [...]
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In Search of Fennel
Lunch today was intended to be earlier than usual due to my scheduled hair appointment at 1pm. Following my hair appointment, Mr C and I planned to visit a particular garden centre to track down (and see) a garden bench that we had in mind.
Whilst I was quietly reading before lunch, the phone rang… It [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on May 14th 2016
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A Perfect Day…
…to enjoy dinner on the patio as the sun went down.
The garden plans are taking shape and whilst Mr C and I were at work today the two garden fairies had been at work cutting out new borders around the patio area.
The plan to continue the wall around the patio has now been put back [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on May 12th 2016
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A Perfect Evening…
… to sit on the patio enjoying the early evening sun before dinner.
As part of the garden project the front of the house has also been tackled. The small island border has been removed and re-turfed. The euonymus has been relocated to the back garden and the daffodil bulbs are temporarily in a pot. I [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 4th 2016
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Garden Update
There have been no major changes since my last photographs, but on the whole the garden is a lot tidier than it was. I have persuaded Mr C to help me with the Laurel at the weekend. I need the top cutting off before I go about tidying up the sides.
The next major task is [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on May 3rd 2016
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Garden TLC
The patio furniture has now been moved off the lawn and back it its former location. I have not placed all the tubs in their final locations yet, I haven’t quite decided what I want where. I don’t want all the bins cluttering up the garden so I need to clear a space for two [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 31st 2016
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House Renovations
Although our tired tarmac driveway has needed replacing for a number of years we kept putting off replacing it until recently. A local builder was laying driveways in our area and we decided at long last that we would have ours replaced including the path up the side of our house. The path up the [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 30th 2016
