Building a garden from scratch is easier said than done, but for 15 years that is exactly what we did at Ravendale House.
It was often hard work, but we loved it and the result was our 'blank canvas' of 1998 was transformed into a beautiful and productive garden, which I hope you have enjoyed reading about in this blog.
But tide and time wait for no man and sad to say I am no longer able to give the garden the attention it deserves. It would break my heart to see it fall into disrepair, so the time has come to move on.
I will continue this blog in memory of 15 happy years gardening, but I don't have a garden at the moment so will start by telling the story of the last 9 months, so if you want to read the story from the beginning, please click here.
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Well, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, “Every day’s a school day”. On this occasion our ‘life’ lesson concerned plumbing. Not my favourite subject but here goes.
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We started this year with a hosepipe ban, and finished it by breaking records for rainfall. The wettest year in England since records began in 1910, and the second wettest in the UK as a whole. You couldn’t make it up.
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I’m not a Xmas person anymore. Having no children and my only family living 400 miles away (Peter doesn’t bother with his family at all) Xmas is just a nuisance.
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So there I was yesterday morning in the little market town of Brigg, posting my Xmas cards to Canada. As I was walking back to my car I followed a young man with a dog. I don’t know what breed it was, a sort of chunky poodle, with a white curly coat, definitely not a man’s dog.
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Well, it’s now exactly 6 weeks since the conservatory was pulled down and what a 6 weeks it has been.
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I’ve just spent 8 days looking after my neighbours ducks and hens whilst they were away on holiday.
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You might be wondering why news of the new patio has dried up over recent days, after all it was all going so well, too well in fact.