Simon's sister came down this morning to help us in the garden/around the house before the wedding ..... did I metion there was going to be a wedding? We had already had quite a busy morning. Rushed to B&Q for dowels (- the blinds for the living room), went to the fishmonger in Rainham (brilliant if you ever need fish I'll give you the number!), I delivered the material and dowels to Gravesend, we collected the table/chairs from the Garden Company and I was still at the railway station by 11.50ish to collect the lovely Helen (my sister-in-law to be ...... which might change if they don't sort .... hang on I'm getting ahead of myself!)
We all worked really hard all afternoon - unfortunately I didn't myself organised enough for before photos - but the battery is now on charge for "afters". We (the royal we!) cut the grass & strimmed the edges, put new fence panels in, weeded and dug out a flower bed, ate lunch al fresco and put down a membrane to stop weeds and filled said bed with bricks - ready to cover with gravel and cobbles!
At 5 o'clock I left for Tesco safe in the knowledge that Helen was going to paint the water butt and Simon was sweeping the patio. I mooched around the supermarket for an hour so before returning home to find that my beloved and his sibling had been "creative & artistic" whilst I was out! I know have diagonal blue and white stripes painted on the garden wall! The "troublesome twosome" have painted every other breeze block on what was a blue wall white!! Yes I know the blue wall/fence was a bad idea in the first place ..... but Alan Titchmarsh made the colour look so good on Ground Force! But by gosh it didn't half show up the pigeon poop!
Do I really want to be joined in wedlock to this family? Do I? Honestly? [See the rest of the garden pictures here]
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