Well, you say that Aya but try telling my Mrs.....
Poacher turned gamekeeper GB or should I say Sir Clifford now ?Well, you say that Aya but try telling my Mrs.....
She insists that I’d do a far better job if I had a bigger mower. She’s become obsessed with gardening since lockdown, even makes me doff mi cap to her and call her Lady Chatterly.
Trim it right back shouldn’t be problem then #sorted
We've 'future proofed' the garden with the complete back garden being a deck and the front, which was 3 levels of shrubbery terraces, now 2 large levels completely covered with gold coloured pebbles.Just awaiting the planting of beech hedges either side to tidy up and keep the neighbours' weeds out (hopefully).Were it just a single lonely bush. We‘ve got a protected hedgerow down one side of the back garden and amongst it there‘s just about every type of Thorne and Holly variety in the land. I still fall for it even after all these years...I did yesterday. ‘You’re bigger than me! You’re stronger than me!’...‘I wish I didn’t have to ask you’ as she points out the offending branches and sends me in armed with the saw and loppers to be ripped apart.......while she potters about.. To be fair to her, she’s very good at pottering.
I‘ve been considering doing something to reduce the maintenance TT, it’s definitely getting harder to maintain as the years go by. The front’s not too bad, just the lawn to cut and a mixture of slow growing shrubs, roses and the odd tub and basket, but the back garden is another matter. The lawn alone can more than fill the green bin after one cut and then there‘s the aforementioned protected hedgerow and a few other trees that the builders planted initially. To be honest I used to manage it all myself without a problem but in recent times I‘ve got somebody in every couple of years to sort it. I use Bakewell Tree Care, they’ve always done a good job. Shred it and take it all away.
I'm just hopeless at DIY GB so, apart from a bit of outside painting, garage etc, I keep well away.The wife's OK at decorating but age catches up and so , apart from repainting the non papered walls , and re-touching woodwork that's about it.I‘ve been considering doing something to reduce the maintenance TT, it’s definitely getting harder to maintain as the years go by. The front’s not too bad, just the lawn to cut and a mixture of slow growing shrubs, roses and the odd tub and basket, but the back garden is another matter. The lawn alone can more than fill the green bin after one cut and then there‘s the aforementioned protected hedgerow and a few other trees that the builders planted initially. To be honest I used to manage it all myself without a problem but in recent times I‘ve got somebody in every couple of years to sort it. I use Bakewell Tree Care, they’ve always done a good job. Shred it and take it all away.
I was in my 40’s when we moved in here, jees it’s nearly a quarter of a century ago and it seems like 5 years. We always wanted a bigger back garden and this fit the bill. Climbing up an unfooted double extension ladder swinging on the branches with a saw or extended loppers in my hand wasn’t a problem back then but when I reached my mid 60’s, I (or rather the Mrs) decided that it was daft and the time had come for me to pay somebody else to do the heavy stuff that I can’t reach from Mother Earth... See, she’s all heart.
My problem is that I’ve always enjoyed sorting and fixing things myself, I‘ve still got my electrician’s certs and I love a bit of plumbing and heating work as well as gardening. I’ll have a go at anything except decorating these days which fortunately isn’t an issue because one of my lads runs a decorating business and does a far better job than I ever could. I don’t mind blobbing a bit of paint on something like the greenhouse if need be but that’s as far as it goes, I suppose it’s like you are with gardening mate.
Shhhhh!
Is that on before or after the Hairy Berry’s cooking posts?
Snap, not a recipe follower either. Give me a bag of ingredients and I'll produce something more than acceptable but never follow a recipe.Normally goes down well with friends etc but I have to tell them that , if they want some excellent food, they need to taste my brother's cooking- he is a professional chef by trade.
I enjoy a bit of cooking myself TT in fact I’ll be creating something tonight to soak up the red wine while we watch the match...creating being the operative word. My problem (according to the Mrs) is that I don’t ever do routine meals. Can’t be bothered to make up anything out of a packet or tin me, it has to be my own creation and of course suitably acclaimed afterwards.
Pay attention please- it's more about non gardening.
Having a professional chef in the family must be brilliant as long as he doesn’t mind mixing work with leisure.
He's better off staying in Treeton than getting into that midden that Swillsboro's built around.
