The Daily Mail judges,
David Stevens and Hamish Webb, arrived today at 8:30 to decide whether or not we should progress to the next level. we had been too busy getting things ready to take any photos in the last few days, so here are some we took after they left.
The summerhouse finally has a roof, complete with a cast iron nipple that was originally the lid of an urn, sold at our local salvage yard for a fiver. This structure is far from finished as it is intended to be the summer residence for child number seven's chinchillas.
Some flowers in the red bed, don't know what they are but suffice to say the red is so bright it seems to have maxed out the colours on my (normally very good) camera
My sister has recently been attending a welding course in Ebbw Vale and this is one of her efforts. Since seeing her in her boiler suit and welding mask she has been rechristened Aunty Fred (as in Dibna).
The bog garden and some Candelabra Primulas which have the rare distinction of being a plant that even I know the name of. We originally had the stream fed by a small solar powered pump, but the Welsh weather simply wasn't up to it. Now the pump has been connected to the mains via a transformer which meant placing it further upstream, however we now only need to run the pump about once a fortnight for an hour and gravity does the rest.
One of the major changes of late was the ten tons of gravel I bought for Elaine's birthday present. She suggested it might be a bit better present if I helped spread it over the yard, but I got round this by paying child number six to do my share of the work
It is uncanny how fast these plants seem to grow in this area, look out for more updates later in the year
Dave
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