Shhhh.........is winter over?

11th February and it's difficult not to think that it's Spring!!! Snowdrops blooming, we've found a few daffodils just about to open and certainly the birds are thinking about pairing up. Although we're still getting a lot of rain, and it rained all night, today the rain stopped at about 8am and then the day got better and better. By the afternoon it was lovely Spring weather, the birds were singing madly and the 'common english gardener' was to be see beavering away in the hedges.

Sue was seen to be smiling again as she she spent the afternoon clearing more of the brambles and undergrowth out of the last part of hedge on the front 'garden'.

Meanwhile I finished clearing the 'cave' which we are now going to use for storage and for my workshop.

We're off on Monday to buy more gardening equipment. We are generating so much prunings that it seems stupid to keep burning it. So we are going for a shredder so that we can make our own chippings to use for mulch. Whilst we are at it we'll get a decent hedge trimmer. With the work we will be doing it's silly not to get properly organised to save us time and effort.

We think we've upset our architect when we told him that we only wanted him to draw the plans for obtaining our planning consent. He would like to organise the work as well ( for even more money). We had a visit from a girl who works for an architect. She will draw our plans but, the size of our project means that we are obliged to use an architect. So she can do our work through him(?). She has promised us a quote in about 10 days. All of this messing about before we can get going is starting to become annoying.