Slán go fóill, agus míle bhuíochas duit as ucht na h-éisc go léir

Now this one will be an update and a half! Here we are in March 06 and the last update was July 05 - Yikes!

Well, I will try and start from where we were.

We built the raised area sucessfully and yes it's still standing! Then over a few hot summer days, we laid the granite sett patio and circle lawn edging. Now I know its not the best quality work you'll ever see but I am hoping that once the gravel and plants are in place, and the setts and mortar become weathered you won't really notice!

I have to say it was hellish work and something I will never attempt again. I think this kind of job requires experience and skill. However, we did manage to get them into fairly reasonable circles and they are certainly not going to move for the next 100 years or so!









Anyway here is the finished product being fitted with lawn!


The laying of the lawn, also meant the small matter of delivery of 1 tonne of topsoil, which was wheelbarrowed in by my good self and spread before actually laying the lawn. Unfortunately, the lawn does not look so green after the winter and somehow has gone a bit lumpy! Mmm I have some grass seeds but not sure what to do about the lumpiness! Any ideas anyone?










You don't supose the lumpy soil had anything to do with my lawn mowing equiptment do you?
















No, I guess it might have been Rachel! What are you doing????














Ah, these are pictures of our holiday in Ireland when we visited a old Irish village theme park type thing - it was actually very good!

Anyway, winter came, and I got a lovely cat called Chorlton .





Bless, he does look so skinny in that pic! Well, he been at home for 41/2 weeks now and has been properly fed up! Now he has a nice rotund belly ;-)








The next stage for garden, will be vege's and hardy perenials as I cannot afford all those lovely big plants I wanted to get at the moment (due to learning to drive - test date 20/04/06!) and I got a bit excited about growing veg anyway! So more on that soon, bye.