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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As a child I loved doing jig-saw puzzles, in fact I still do, and I’m quite good at them, but yesterday we spent all day doing the hardest jig-saw of my life.
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Over the last couple of years or so I’ve written at some length about some of our less successful EBay transactions. Who could forget the curse of the footstools and then earlier this year there was the revenge of the wardrobe.
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What was I thinking? “brick walls and concrete base, which shouldn’t prove too much of a problem with Peter wielding a large sledge hammer.”
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So there we were, a lovely, warm, sunny day in early October and the conservatory was dismantled. All that remained were the brick walls and concrete base, which shouldn’t prove too much of a problem with Peter wielding a large sledge hammer. Everything was going well, too well in fact. Something was bound to go wrong.
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Historically this is the time of year when I turn my attention to outside painting, making sure things are ‘ship shape’ for the winter months ahead.
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It’s no secret that this year has been rubbish for growing just about everything due to the poor Spring and Summer weather. Therefore it came as no surprise to me when the apple harvest was poor compared to previous years. And yet.
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Eleven days ago we had the kitchen window replaced. The old one had developed a fault in the double glazed unit and it was like looking out through a thick fog.
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I’ve mentioned before how a lot of our garden birds seem to go missing in August. The wood pigeons are still around, as is a ‘this years’ robin and a handful of sparrows, but that’s pretty much it apart from a blackbird.
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When London won the Olympic bid in 2005 I was completely un-moved and as I watched the spectacular opening ceremony of 2008 in Beijing, followed by the hand over to GB in the closing ceremony, I was convinced that London 2012 would be an embarrassing disaster.