No surprises!

You may or may not be surprised to know that I have spent quite a while in the garden today! The bed in front of the summer house was quite neglected and full of ground elder and other unwanted intruders, it was also very dry and hard on the surface. I had moved several large weeds and a huge unwanted plant yesterday, so my start picture was worse!

I started digging out ground elder and couch grass and some large plants that were spreading. But the intruders were growing round and even through the plants I wanted to keep so reluctantly decided that they needed to be lifted to be replanted when the ground was ready. So I got trays and a bucket with water in to give them a drink while they were out of the ground! I did a bit over an hour and had a break as it was quite hard going, then did another hour or so before stopping for lunch. I had done a fair bit of digging and weeding by then and had a lot of plants ready to be replanted.

Out again after lunch and it was threatening to rain. In fact is was raining by the time I came in so I was a bit damp. I couldn’t trim the edges very well as the edgers need sharpening and they didn’t like the wet grass! Had worked for over an hour again so probably just as well that rain stopped play!

Came in and dried off and had a cuppa with Tina who came in soon after me. Then I went with her to the tip to get rid of some cardboard and paper. She drove back via the sea front so that we could say hello to the sea!

I started ironing the fat quarters before dinner ready for cutting into squares for the dungarees as the pattern arrived today.

I did start cutting the squares after dinner but my legs were not amused that ai had started a job where I was standing, so will carry on with that another day!