Our House

A few images of the house and garden which I hope will be of interest to Lavinia and her family.

The lane outside the house

The front of the house

The back of the house

A view of the garden

The main living room

The bedroom that Lavinia will have during her stay

 A view from the window of that bedroom

The cherry tree in the spring

 View of the countryside just behind the house. If you look very closely you may see some pheasants.

A view winter scenes, this was 2013

The local beach which is often this crowded

 Emma and Claire in the garden

 Valerie, Maman

Woodshed, moving of.

Just have a cup of tea

And off we go.

Slowly roll it forward to the step

Inch it forward until it starts to tip

wiggle and roll

turn it around

Lay down some weed mat and place pads in position

Lay some tracks to raise the shed above the height of the pads

Roll into position

Tip it back and forwards until we can remove the last roller and slide out the tracks

Jobs a good'n

Took 55 mins start to finish.

Getting Water in the geenhouse

First attach hose to the water butt and run though a protecting pipe and under  under the path

  Then run the hose around the inside of the greenhouse

 

  

Then attach to s suitable tap. A few spare tiles set in sand will suffice until I get a couple of paving slabs.

 

 

Lettuces bought as plugs from the garden centre under the cloches (5l water bottles cost €0.85 or 71p)
Parsley and coriander behind the watering cans.

Tidying Up

Last weekend I managed a severe prune of this flowering cherry. the rest will be felled later.

 

When felled I can attacked the conifers to the left which will then let in more light for this beech hedge planted to hide the composting area.

The small branches and twigs from the aforementioned cherry provided enough chippings to go around three sides of the greenhouse and the path inside.

The gutters have been connected to the water butt which is filling up nicely at the moment.

I also managed to use sold old bed slats I had lying around to make a small potting shelf. 

 I didn't cut them too short,by the way. In fact they were only just long enough to reach the brackets.

The bed on the third side of the greenhouse is no prepared ready for the strawberry cuttings.