For those of you know me well the following is likely to cause you to raise an eyebrow. This is because I have not infrequently voiced the belief that gardens are for sitting in – and should therefore involve as little physical effort as possible.

It may therefore come as a bit of surprise for you to find that I have started to remove low maintenance lawn in order to replace it with time consuming borders containing plants. On one level this will reduce the amount of grass I have to cut, on the other I will now have to spend some time weeding (unless I can persuade Kate that she would enjoy that).

Nathanael thought it highly amusing watching daddy turning grass into stones. (We think that he thought the pile of sods I was creating was a pile of stones) Rachael has yet to indicate her opinion (although i’m hopeful she’ll just display excitement).

Piccies will be made available eventually.