Top Garden

Aghhhhh will my builder ever come to fit the bathroom?..............

Deep breath! In the meantime I have decided to focus my energies on the top garden. Its going to be a big job! But not as big a job as the bottom garden eh!

So what are we dealing with exactly?

Well this is how it looked when we moved in.....

We moved the greenhouse down to the allotment soon after we moved in to open up the space. The wall behind it turned out to be concrete panels from an old garage. They took a lot of smashing up and trips to the top. Once removed the wall looked like this.....

Spot the castelations! A bit of emptying and the wall once again looked as it should.....

 Briefly the garden looked quite respectable......

And last year Noah and I replaced the pathway with slabs left over from the terrace.....

However it didn't last long. The front garden always seems to be the casualty whenever there is building work elsewhere and the quest for the cold water mains caused devastation....

The challenge now is moving forward to create a garden. Now I have my lovely kitchen I want to be able to look out onto something respectable! There are a few tips to the trip in store but the scrap metal man called yesterday so the rusting land-rover roof-rack (dumped when the land-rover went), the old filing cabinet (abandoned by you-know-who) and the pile of scrap metal are all gone. Today Noah and I started clearing some of the old redundant bits of drain and I've re-rendered around the window with traditional lime render. Not the smoothest of finishes but I like to think of it as organic! I also plan to re-point the wall in an effort to cover some of that white paint and loose some of the snail hideaways! 

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15th May

Trying to repair the render round the window. In despair as to how to stop it cracking as it dries - impossible to get the wall wet enough when patching repairs. grrrrrrrr.