I spent several hours in the back garden today. I have a white step stool that I use in the kitchen to reach the high cupboards. I used it outside today to get onto the flowerbed above the low wall so that I could do yet more pruning and clearing. You can hardly make out the stool in the picture and I had to find another route down!

It took me a long time to get all this cut up and that filled another two garden bags! I have about 10 out the front ready to go now and I am not sure if there is a limit on how many you can put out at a time! I then reassembled a concrete bird bath that was already in the garden and then set about digging a small bed just behind the wall. The soil was heavy clay and it hasn't been touched in years, so not easy going. A sparrow chirped away in the tree above me and wasn't even bothered when I was talking to it and whistling replies!

I used a couple more bungee ropes to brace the other side of the bird feeder and removed the ropes I had used weeks ago. I am hopeful that this will now be a long term solution.

Back in the autumn I 'rescued' some very sad primulas. This one has now regrown and flowered.

And this one has been really tall and not opening for a week or more, but looks like it may actually open up soon.

Tina took me across to Deans Garden Centre this afternoon, I got some sharp sand to add to the clay soil, a couple of paving slabs to go in the centre of beds I am going to dig so that I can get across them, some more bird seed, a few pansies and some seeds. I put the sand on the bed and planted the pansies, Darren will get the slabs in for me later. I am helping at the ceramic studio in the morning, have the button class in the afternoon and the craft class in the evening, so no time for gardening tomorrow really.