Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
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…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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… 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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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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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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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
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I booked today off work so I could spend some time in my local memorial garden followed by lunch out. I was hoping for a nice relaxing day away from work and was rather dismayed when I arrived at home yesterday to find that one of the front tyres on my car looked rather deflated. [...]
7 Comments CherryPie on Jul 15th 2015
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This bank holiday was a strange one for me. It started off with a houseful and I was more or less confined to upstairs at my home. The boys had taken over my living room once again for a two day Napoleonic war-game. They no longer have to crawl on the floor as two 8ft [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Aug 26th 2014
