Our house should be exchanging this week, slightly scary as this was where our children grew up, a little bit exciting but mostly a huge weight that will be lifted once it's actually gone.
What was to mostly be a one woman project, started in May 2020, with the garden being the biggest element by far that needed the most work. When you're faced with this its extremely daunting.
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| A view from the bedroom window |
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| A view from the bedroom window |
As well as working indoors on clearing and decorating most of the summer was spent outside tackling the garden.
Bit by bit the garden started to come back to life. People were paid to do the initial clear, which then left all the bramble and ivy roots to be dug out, which believe me is back breaking work that just goes on and on for week after week.
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| Initial clear |
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| Initial clear |
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| Clearing out the greenhouse |
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| Shed down |
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| Fences up |
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| Top level cleared and a border planted |
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| One day of social distanced help, digging out more roots |
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Cleared of roots and level
 | Turf down
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| Before |
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| 2 tonnes of gravel later and were done |
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After
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All in all I'm pretty pleased with the final outcome of the garden, even though it did take me months. I relaid part of the patio, took car loads of bramble roots weekly to the dump, took down a shed, spent days clambering over rockery digging up ivy and brambles out of all the nooks and crannies, helped lay the turf and generally spent my whole summer digging.
Fingers crossed everything goes through ok in the next few weeks.
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