Middle-age celebration

Been on half term holiday this week.  On the first Saturday I formulated a project to turn my mess of a front garden into something new.  It was an uneven, wild, grass/weed cat toilet (bloody pests) of a wasted space and I had plans....

With Jnr Jnr, we drew up a scaled drawing of the layout and talked about what we could do, even creating a rather whizzy costing [colour-coded] spreadsheet.  With a lot of digging (a hell of a lot), levelling, chopping, lifting, spreading, screwing (easy now) and planting we now have what Jnr Jnr described as "something you'd see in a magazine".  That cheered me up when she said that :)

I now have borders with lavender, box and some other plants (not sure what, they're green) held in place with some hopefully long-lasting sleepers.  The grass has been replaced with a series of raised beds, surrounded by gravel, that I have populated with a wide range of herbs: the aim being to have a diverse edible garden that anyone who walks past can help themselves to for some ingredients to use if they so wish.

A glass of bubbly had already taken away the pain from my left shoulder - the only injury I suffered over the week's toil.