Blame it on the weather!

It may seem like we have not done much to the garden, and in reality we could have done more if it were not for the Grand National and the rain! The good news is that we both won the Grand National by betting on Hedgehunter, the winner, but with all the excitement we ended up getting a little worse for wear and ended up hung over the next day which was perfect gardening weather.

Anyway, on with gardening news - and to make up for the lack of apparent progress, here are some pictures of the garden when we first moved in and before we took down the big old shed and Rachel broke up a couple of tonnes or more of concrete with only a sledgehammer and crowbar! (now tell me who the butch one is?!)



Here is Rachel posing for the Lesbian beauty contest! A contender me thinks!





See Rachel can look happy doing hard gardening graft!




Well, Sunday, Jules' hangover day, Rachel did most of the digging up of the turf;

as you can see in this picture:

Then Monday (Rachels Birthday), I did LOADS of turfing up while Rachel was at work and then while she was at home relaxing!

Jules digging up the turf with her implement of destruction!

Jules forking in Rachel's Gay and Proud top.

But back to the present. We have completed the removal of the turf and weeds and everything, and put them into piles! Umm what shall we do with those!

After contemplating the cost of hiring a skip and seeking advice from my manager Sian, we decided to buy a seive from Wilko's and try and seive the turf from the soil and use the soil in the raised area! Nice idea, but how long does it take two lesbians to seive 5 tonnes of soil? Too f**king long!

So instead we decide to pay for a skip, and then spend Tues night after work moving 5 tonnes or more of soil and turf in a wheel barrow and stuff it into said skip!

As you can see the front garden needs work too - I think that requires a separate Blogger! Something for you all to look forward too!
and then the final result is an empty canvas for us to create our perfect garden. Yeah right!