The week starts moving towards another hot spell this weekend which happens to be why this is being typed when it is but this week I'm talking a bit about gardens and no I'm no expert on layouts, plants - never would of moved beyond getting a badge in Brownies for identifying flowers and that but my home is a semi-detached (and that hyphen matters!) which means your house is joined to just one other and typically both of you have gardens.
It's also fair to say we've got a much bigger plot than most here being on a corner too.
In the last few years as Mom got more infirm before this coep/covid related business kept her in bed, she did much of planting, planning and oversight while Dad did the more muscle based stuff like trimming, lawn mowing and the like.
We'd employed a neighbour to whom notes of the realm worked well to do odd jobs and up to around September and October last year he was working on various things we either never got around to or she couldn't do and dad was too busy progressively doing more that she used to around the home.
Inevitably over Christmas and up to Mom's death, the garden was neglected a bit as there wasn't the time to do anything and in any event hardly time to either plan anything as caring became increasingly the sole focus of everyone's activity.
We are picking up on what was left starting with some garden features bought in the last two years that never come out of their boxes and are now installed complete with a bird feeder.
The hedges a little overgrown have been trimmed together with the bushes while plans are being made to tackle the area that leads up to and around one of two sheds to tidy and trim the vegetation that has taken over and maybe put in some planters for easy maintenance plants to make the area enjoyable again as you approach via a gated wall.
Progress is being made catching up with things.
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