Playing with Toys

As we have the surround of the courtyard finished (John was determined to complete it before the winter), it is now necessary to keep it pristine. Therefore a sucker /blower to remove the leaves was purchased. It was assembled and I was poised with the camera for "blow off" if you see what I mean. However as he switched it on the wheels fell off. Much abuse followed about Chinese workmanship until he found the nut he should have tightened!! As you can see it eventually worked and it is now up to me to spend all winter finding and barrowing earth from wherever to fill the centre for grass.

Not to be out done I wanted something to play with. Fortunately we received a leaflet saying that the local garden centre had loads of offers, so up early to catch the "plants". And then, on Friday almost 1000 bulbs (never one to miss a bargain) arrived from Holland, so I will be playing for a long time yet.