"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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You know that feeling when a favourite garment seems to have shrunk,
and you wish it had an elastic waist?

Well, today a very satisfactory sweat was raised in the Baraclough
garden, some slack was cut, seams were let out, and I'm enjoying the
ineffable comfort of letting out the belt and making room for expansion.

It dawned upon me on Thursday, that a large island bed I made last year
was a design irritation, foolishly marooned in a sea of grass. It's full
of cracking plants but somehow lacks an identity and purpose; it
urgently needed to connect to the rest of the planting. By digging a
causeway bed, the "island" could join up to a much larger sweeping
curved bed. I rushed out with me spade, and cut two little channels
through the lawn, making the curves by eye, to mark the proposed
surgery.

That's a secondary use for hosepipe, no? rearrange the hose till you're
happy with the look of it, then cut.

Steve