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A wanderer's return!
Hi Everyone.
It's been a long time and life's changed a lot, but a little bird told me that my name had been mentioned in dispatches earlier in the month and I thought it might be time to catch up with old friends. Jenny C was right - new house and new garden to start on............. Sadly David (who some of you will remember from the urgmeet of 2000) died two years ago, so it's been a time of adjustment, challenge and learning to be independent. This move really is the start of a new chapter in my life which I'm really looking forward to. The old bellsbarn website is no more - Demon's tortuous procedure for moving a broadband account finally killed it off (6 weeks of progressively more fraught phone calls, more stressful than the house move itself!!), but I hope to re-institute the geranium pages when I have time, and to produce some new home pages to show the work on the new garden. Briefly, it's a small cottage garden which has been worked for the last 200 years. The soil is wonderful - black, crumbly and so easy to dig; a big change from the clay at Bellsbarn which is only a mile up the road. I'm finding it hard to be patient and see what grows - from what I can see, there is a multiplicity of all my least favourite plants. A spirea I've hated since childhood which I've removed several specimens of, a huge evergreen something or other that was taking up an entire flowerbed to itself - this has gone too, after hours of fun with a bow saw, a ratchet and pulley, a chain saw, the help of assorted neighbours, numerous cups of coffee and several packets of chocolate hobnobs!!! I've also risked life and limb up a cherry tree in my wellies removing the branches which were catching on the mains electricity cable! First important thing is to install a decent shed as I've no garage - at the moment guests have to share the spare bedroom with my garden tools! Once I've got that sorted I can set about redesigning the garden - a pond is a must have, once I've decided the best position for it. That's most of the news for now, other than I'm now working at a local nursery( www.mercastontreecompany.com ). It sells mature and semi-mature trees, shrubs and topiary....... summer days clipping the cypress spirals were glorious, though it's less fun now the weather is getting colder!However, my terms of employment state that I don't have to go in if it rains - what could be more perfect:-) Jill |
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