Discarded ideas were a water park, a nice flower bed of small flowers, a zip line, and blackberry bushes. You may be able to decipher who suggested what.
So we decided to (hopefully) create a wall of sunflowers, to cheer everybody up. Who doesn't like sunflowers?
Thank you Auntie Lou, for sending us a packet of sunflower seeds. Thank you also Jennie from work, who has loaned us a sack-load of gardening tools and gloves to get the job done.
It was after school on Friday that we began work....the vegetation grew to a metre out from the fence, and at its highest was over two metres tall. NO PROBLEM!
We set about our spiky foe with gusto, with Sam to the fore but Dad actually doing most of the work. But it was a team effort, and every chunk of hedge removed was a cause for comment...."Look at this big boy Daddy!"...."Ow, buggrit, me arm.....again".....
When we decided to call it a day we had already given the hedge a haircut that hinted at further snippage.
When we decided to call it a day we had already given the hedge a haircut that hinted at further snippage.
An extra piece of entertainment was provided by Dad when he was disposing of some clippings and didn't see a hole in the embankment....cue full falling in and thinking he was going to die, ended almost immediately by a safe cushion on a bed of thistles.
Operation Sunflower is go!
1 comment:
It will be such a happy sight to see every day from your flat, lots of smiling Sunflowers. Well done all that hard work but Sam obviously loves it.
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