*Daily Chat* 29/6/09 Monday *Come onboard the HMS Chatterbox*

bookseller1980

Keep doing that and everytime I go back the chat thing says I haven't bought any/

whatatwit

I wonder if you are turning it off.....I kept doing that. click on..click off.
You have to keep it open though, and just use other tabs at same time.
Can only be in one room at once.

Burlesque_Babe

OK

To put this into context, this was my garden when I moved in 5 years ago



At the time I thought.....hmmm..bit stark and boring. I'll probably stick a load of pots along the 'levels' and add some bushes at the back. This is the photo from the estate agent house particulars and is probably taken from the garden on the road above me.

I was quite good for the first couple of summers - we sat out in the evenings and had dinner at a table and then OH bought me a patio heater.

Then I had my run in with Cruella and didn't stray much outside the front door that summer after I left It was also a wet summer.

Last summer I didn't go up there at all - again,it was a washout so I wouldn't have been able to access it easily because it turns into a bog.#

Note particularly the lack of absolutely nothing growing in the 2 levels between the garden and the house :whistle:

I'll upload the other photos in another post..........lots of piccies alert......:rotfl:

sammy115

£109 + VAT for new garage door lock!!!

but its booked now....

(Land_of)_Maz

sammy115 wrote: »

£109 + VAT for new garage door lock!!!

but its booked now....

it's only half the cost of your Gertie......

<maz runs out again, before she gets walloped!!>

bookseller1980

We are taking the Brownies to McDonalds tonight. Joy! :rolleyes:
DD2 has just asked me to lend her the money until she gets paid tomorrow. I have 21p in my purse.
Is it cheap there? :rotfl::rotfl:

sammy115

sammy115 wrote: »

£109 + VAT for new garage door lock!!!

but its booked now....

and he will be here in 60-90 mins:eek:

becky_rtw

It might be if its a magic 20p bookie

sammy115

(Land_of)_Maz wrote: »

it's only half the cost of your Gertie......

<maz runs out again, before she gets walloped!!>

good job you are getting too fast to catch young lady...:rotfl:

Had to be done I suppose...

Next job - I am to source a burglar alarm....OH is starting to get stressed about leaving the house at the weekend with no one in....does anyone know how much these things cost or should I be asking for certain things...

Burlesque_Babe

Welcome to the guided tour of my garden Please be extra careful for any frogs in the shade or cats who jump out of long grass :rotfl:

This is the view from the top of the driveway up the steps - note the appearance of a pampas grass on the right and the ever marching rhodedendron bush on the left which was cut right back by my mum in March (it didn't get cut at all last year and was right across the steps -ahem..)




Moving up the steps, this is the first view of the garden as you are just reaching the top.



Note lovingly cared for bbq bought by OH 3 summers ago, used once and has been 2 wet for the last 2 years. Also note the careful placing of the bbq cover on the floor after I gave up re-covering it and it kept blowing off



OK - on reaching the top of the steps, look to your right for your first full view of the garden, complete with ever growingly wonky shed :rotfl:, rampaging bramble bush and uneven half of the garden which is grassed and for a rare time - quite short in comparison to previous months.



The view from standing in front of the wonky shed. Lots of 'nature' has sprung up since I first saw the garden and thought - hmmmm, bit bleak.



OK, back down the steps and after not breaking your neck on the pampas grass across the steps and back into the house - this is the view from the main bedroom and looking to the left. Please note the proliferance of long grass in previous barren pebbled levels and nice green wall which was previously cream.

Also note the big green bush - this has sprung up from goodness knows where and is smack bang inthe middle of the middle level.



Again, view from the bedroom - this time straight ahead.

Note the full wonkyness of the shed on its uneven ground. Also note the jungle nature of the view straight in front and marvel at how nature took a barren landscape and populated itself :rotfl:

I quite like the last photo - it almost makes the garden look good!!!!