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Picture post!
Since not long after we moved in, we've been a little concerned about the wall along the path behind our garage, which holds up an earth bank and is not exactly vertical. It's been on the 'to sort out' list for a while.
One of the fence panels between the garden and the stableyard fell over this winter, and has been held up since with baling twine. It's part of a fence that really needs to be entirely replaced: it's six feet high and wooden, and really cuts down on the light to that part of the garden, and the gates in it are increasingly rickety and hard to use.
(That's also where we had the polytunnel last year, in an otherwise-useless patch of garden, but it didn't really get enough light. It'd be nice as a little cutting garden, if it didn't have the six foot high solid fence along the south side of it.)
The fence along the edge of the back garden has been fairly dodgy since we took out the leylandii that were growing through it, but then I planted the willow in front of it so it didn't matter too much. Still, a bit messy....
This winter, the fence along the front garden has started to lean over rather, in a 'not long for this world' way.
It didn't really make sense to do any one of those jobs without doing the others, so we never really got around to any of them. A few weeks ago, I said to Mike "Let's just ask Jobbing Farmer to quote for it." And I did.
And today he came long with a mate and a digger man, and they started work:
Before and after:
And the new view from the stableyard:
I think I'm going to have dahlias in there. I bought a bag at Costco the other week.
We put the ducks in the garden for the day (shh, don't tell DEFRA). Poor Erzuli was never very good with going down steps, and didn't have much time to practice between coming here and being exiled to the stableyard. She spent a good chunk of the afternoon on the patio, looking desolately down at the lawn and then wandering around looking for the way down.
I, on the other hand, have taken advantage of the fact that my pre-Follycon stuff is pretty much finished to do a bit of sewing:
The next job is replacing the fence between the front and back gardens, which is going to be a wooden lattice affair, and then there will be a pause: when Jobbing Farmer went to order the fenceposts for the main fence, he was told there was a three week wait. Oh well, we're getting there!
One of the fence panels between the garden and the stableyard fell over this winter, and has been held up since with baling twine. It's part of a fence that really needs to be entirely replaced: it's six feet high and wooden, and really cuts down on the light to that part of the garden, and the gates in it are increasingly rickety and hard to use.
(That's also where we had the polytunnel last year, in an otherwise-useless patch of garden, but it didn't really get enough light. It'd be nice as a little cutting garden, if it didn't have the six foot high solid fence along the south side of it.)
The fence along the edge of the back garden has been fairly dodgy since we took out the leylandii that were growing through it, but then I planted the willow in front of it so it didn't matter too much. Still, a bit messy....
This winter, the fence along the front garden has started to lean over rather, in a 'not long for this world' way.
It didn't really make sense to do any one of those jobs without doing the others, so we never really got around to any of them. A few weeks ago, I said to Mike "Let's just ask Jobbing Farmer to quote for it." And I did.
And today he came long with a mate and a digger man, and they started work:
Before and after:
And the new view from the stableyard:
I think I'm going to have dahlias in there. I bought a bag at Costco the other week.
We put the ducks in the garden for the day (shh, don't tell DEFRA). Poor Erzuli was never very good with going down steps, and didn't have much time to practice between coming here and being exiled to the stableyard. She spent a good chunk of the afternoon on the patio, looking desolately down at the lawn and then wandering around looking for the way down.
I, on the other hand, have taken advantage of the fact that my pre-Follycon stuff is pretty much finished to do a bit of sewing:
The next job is replacing the fence between the front and back gardens, which is going to be a wooden lattice affair, and then there will be a pause: when Jobbing Farmer went to order the fenceposts for the main fence, he was told there was a three week wait. Oh well, we're getting there!
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And the quilt looks super -- love the colors!
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