For my purchase of a bench in June, we’d just plonked it on a space by the shed. It’s been shifted to the space outside our bedroom with the bench I had from Waste Not Want Not nursery which has been stained but not necessarily sanded.

I am tired in the early evening and don’t find ideas or desires easy to communicate and having spent more of this day being active, I am feeling it now. But the garden looks better now than it has looked all year.

I’ve grazed my arm and stuck a thorn in my hand which is all starting to throb. Early this morning I cut the grass out front and G has weeded all the front circle and decided that there is an ants nest out there which explains many of the problems I’ve had growing things.

We filled the car with garden waste and delivered it to the local waste disposal centre and I managed two trips before G asked the young lads to help us. Thankfully they did and we have managed to get the weeds there without the car getting too grubby! But the predictions of a busy August are proving true

However there was a little visitor of the verminous variety ran out beside the greenhouse, yikes. I am hoping our poodle might go after it but I think she is too obliging! ‘Come on in there’s lots of food I can share with you!‘ I’d rather she went for them like her predecessors…