I've been waiting to take some photos of the garden covered in the 5 inches of snow we have been promised all week, but the nearest we got was this slight covering in the distance on the slopes of the Sugar Loaf.
As you can see the garden is quite bare at the moment but I daren't take any close-up pictures in case I inadvertantly show you any weeds Elaine is trying to hide, so you will have to make do with this longshot from the house. This picture highlights my next job, which is to build a support for climbing plants along the top of the far wall, in order to hide the road, at least from the garden if not from this angle.
Most of the limited time I have spent in the garden this week has been spent here, sawing and chopping wood in preparation for the big freeze. You may have noticed that one of my other outstanding jobs is to finish painting the shed.
When we first got here we arbitrarily divided up the garden, Elaine got the front and you can see how much she has already done there, I got the back (for the time being) and this picture shows that instead of gardening I spend most of my time nurturing websites, pinball machines, and children (in that order).
About the nearest thing to gardening I have done in the back garden is the erection of the decking and polytunnel around the above-ground swimming pool. Mind you, I think the only thing preventing Elaine from filling the tunnel with seedlings is the possibility of chlorine damage to the plants. If this clear bright weather continues for much longer I shall have to hoover out the pool ready for the kids to use. Last year they were sunbathing in the polytunnel at the beginning of March.
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