The finished garden

The finished garden

yes!! the garden is finally finished I'm glad to say. we finished it yesterday, putting the gravel down in both sides of the garden and moving the pot plants up their, and arranging them nicely. today i'll show you the pics of the main side of the garden. and tomorrow i'll show you the other side. below this post is the before pics of the garden. xx

wyvale garden centre

On thursday mum and i went to Wyvale garden centre in Lelant, we needed to get more plants for the garden, to put in the flower beds. mum bought some alpine plants for the garden and i bought some plants for my room, i bought a Cacti garden pot plant, a Haworthia cacti plant, a Chamaedorea Elegans palm plant. i also bought some lovely brown metallic looking pots, and a craft book with 16 different craft projects to do. the new palm plant looks great, i just hope i can keep it alive. I'm looking forward to trying out, the craft projects in the book, I'm thinking of trying a salt dough project first, in the next couple of days. i've never made anything from salt dough before, just hope it go's well. we had a great time in Wyvale, shopping for plants. the garden is still not quite finished, but its getting there, my brother derek put the fish pond in better, on the other side of the garden and removed some soil from there, ready for the gravel to be put in. and mum and i put the last lot of flowers in the flower beds. we are just waiting for the gravel to be delivered on tuesday, to finish off both sides of the garden. the weather recently, has been great, perfect weather for gardening. well i guess the garden will be finished soon enough. it will look great when it's all done. here are the pics above of the plants i bought for my room. the garden pics will be on here, in the next few days. xx

In the garden

I've noticed recently that the back garden, was in a very sorry state after the bad winter weather we had, the rockery in the centre of the garden were full of weeds, overgrown flowers and a rotten wood border. mum, my brother derek and i decided to get rid of the rockery altogether and flatten it out. it took all day to do, and i also cut down a tree which was their, that had overgrown, it just didn't look right where it was and it was to big to dig up. we've kept the sloping rockery because it still looks good, it just needed two small tree's removed, some weeding done, and a few flowers put in. i also weeded and tidied up the rest of the garden, over a few day's and raked up the soil, to flatten out the centre of the garden. we are going to gravel or patio out, the centre bit leaving a sloping rockery at one end of the garden and a flower bed at the other end. we may put some pot plants in the centre. it should look great when it's all done. i still cant believe how much work we had to do, to get it looking like this, very hard work, but well worth it. we still have the flower bed to do and the gravel to put down. and maybe a few pot plants. i used to hate gardening until now. now i love it, and cant wait to see it finished. here are the pics above of what it looks like so far. i will post an update pic, when it's all finished. shen xx

Just for fun mondays 4.

Just for fun mondays, is a weekly dose of, five fun questions, for you and i to answer, feel free to join in and have some fun. please post your answers in the comments below. :-)

1. where is your fav place to go, to relax?

2. your fav month is?

3. funniest moment?

4. what 3 things would you take on a desert island? (no food or drink)

5. what's your fav thing to do on a sunday?

here are my answers:

1. the beach.

2. October ( my birthday :)

3. sitting on a wall and getting covered in ants.

4. ds game console, 42 games card, fishing net.

5. read blogs.

The Summer Tea Treat

Every year our village, has a summer T treat, the children from the local school, get all dressed up and walk around the village, in the colorful parade with a brass band playing, some people were dressed as clowns and one was dressed in a bear suit. some children were wearing martial arts clothing. and other colorful clothing. and a man was walking on stilts all dressed up. they also make giant paper animals, to walk around the village with. it's great to watch the parade and listening to the band playing. up in the school field they have stall's selling cake's and other item's and also game's for the children to play. they have raffle stall's, and stall's selling toy's. the children and the oap's get a free T treat bun at the local school. i was hoping to get some photo's today of the event, but unfortunately my dog escaped from the garden, and i had to go and find him. oh well, i guess there's always next year hay!. xx

A funny thing

A funny thing that happened to us year's ago.

One day mum and i was sitting in the living room, watching t.v, and in walked this teenage girl, who we didn't know and she sat down on mum's lap and went to sleep. well we couldn't believe it!, mum looked at me!, i looked at mum!, with a puzzled expression on our faces, mum said who is she!?, i said i've no idea, she opened our two outside gates, the backdoor and the living room door, before she came in and sat down on mum's lap, anyway i phoned my brother jason, and told him what had happened, but he didn't believe me, he thought i was joking!, so i handed over the phone to mum, and mum told him, it's not a joke!, she's sitting on my lap!. he took some convincing but eventually, he came up, he said laughing, i don't know who she is, anyway he said well i'll go and get my friend, maybe he'll know who she is, luckily he knew who she was and went out to get her brother and father to pick her up. her sister had just moved in up the road from us, and she must of forgotten what house her sister live in. she came back the next day embarrassed, she bought flowers for mum and apologized to her for what had happened. someone had spiked her drink at a night club, that she went to. we were just glad she came here, rather than anywhere else. it was so funny, we still laugh about it today!.