I have lots of long term plans in my head for my garden, but first thing's first, it needs a serious tidy!... It seems the previous owners weren't too familiar with the concept of a lawnmower amongst other things...
First of all, clear all the rubbish lying around... In particular, the random bits of junk dumped down the side and back of the shed!... Amongst the junk was some really really rusty old scaffolding, a car bumper, lots of junk wood, a rusty washing line pole and a rusty tairsgeir. I don't think I'll be cutting any peats with it anytime soon though... So all in all, lots of rusty things in my garden...
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| I think the tairsgeir needs a bit of tlc... |
You can now walk all the way round my shed! :)
So time to tackle that grass! Out came the lawnmower and the strimmer... I was tackling the edges with the strimmer, whilst the bodach was in charge of the lawnmower. He got a brand new lawnmower for Christmas this year and so donated his old one to me! Unfortunately, he only got about one square foot of lawn done before it packed in!... Luckily, one of my neighbours was pottering about his garden at the time and very kindly lent us his flymo! :)
The grass had also grown over the paving slabs near the house, so much so that it was difficult to work out where the edge of the paving was... This set about the next task of finding these edges... This job was particularly satisfying!
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| Still need to neaten it up a bit, but looks SO much better! |
After a bit of pruning of what I decided were weeds, it was time to build a little fire at the bottom of the garden to dispose of all the waste! :) Although the area on which I had the fire was lawn, the long term plan for this area is not such, so it was decided that it was the ideal space... In the future, I will also have a compost bin, but this does not yet exist...
Although there's a long was to go yet, I'm sure you'll agree there's a vast improvement already!...
Now time to sketch out those grand plans! :)
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