Richard's Website

The Garden Before and After
	This is a picture of my garden as it used to be. Again first glances mislead you into thinking it's nicely groomed. NOT. I mowed the lawn about twice a year, so consequently I needed an industrial strimmer and a hundred metres of chord before I started. The dog pooed all over the shop but the garden was so overgrown only my shoes ever found it (unless I was strimming then it tended to fly vigorously in all directions). Notice the nice peach coloured roses, the only reason they were not dead was because they'd been there that long they didn't know how to die. The post you can see at the far side is a signpost directing you to the nearest garden centre.
	This is a picture of our lane (our house is the first one on the right nestling nicely behind that poisonous laburnum tree). One day I came home from work to find two cars facing each other in the middle of the lane. The next morning they were still there. It turned out to be the two women who live opposite each other at the top. One was leaving at the same time as the other was arriving and neither of them would back up, so they just got out of their cars and left them. :-)
	The early stages..getting rid of the old knackered porch ...Now you can see the original stone!