Some progress ??

At last it has stopped raining for a few hours, enabling us to actually get in the back garden and try and reinstate some order and correct the damage we have done! M'spouse has been busy building a retaining wall around the new round grass area, this has envolved moving soil from some of the newly un-turfed areas.

I seem to have been moving barrowloads of turf and soil to this area. We have put black weedmatting behind the logs so that any grass that has been used to fill in does not start sprouting out of the sides...M'spouse has ruined our chainsaw too, we had the piston replaced and 2 days later its gone again, this was a stihl model which we were ill-advised about, we should have had a much tougher model or a new husband - the chainsaw guy suggested !

I've had to transplant all the shrubs and daffodils, hellebores from the bed covered now by this grass area, down to the lower area. I feel it looks much better now, and you get a nice view from the house with all the yellow, it'll be really nice when all the rhododendrons and azaleas are out in May (hopefully).

I've started digging over some of the beds that I've started rearranging. I'm making them much longer, joining some together and turfing over some parts of others, hopefully it will come together before long and the first open day.