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one step beyond

This morning, the view from our kitchen window was this:


Then the Fella started doing this:






And I got dolled up like this (complete with drawn on snout for that Swine Flu Paranoia look):



And I had a go too:







We made a lot of mess:








And then we had to tidy it all up. Which took 12 trips to the tip. But the end result is worth it:

it's nearly a garden

Honest!

a simple maths lesson

Hurrah!

getting there

Today, with the help of my parents and a chainsaw, we chopped up all the roof ready for the skip on Saturday. Wheee!

Then The Fella got home, with his little friend:



And decided the door could do with a catflap:



Here's Johnny!

We're going to need a skip!

The garage roof is gone!

It used to look something like this:



We are one step closer to getting this:



Woohoo!

it was a very good year...

We've had the house for a year! Mental! Developments have included:
- adding a new electricity meter cupboard next to the original. To house the new fuse box after the first went up in an arc of sparks and smoke...
- lifting all the tarmac from the front path to reveal lovely slate flags.
- taking all the plants out of the front garden ready to dig it up and terrace it with railway sleepers, gravel and pots full of pretty things.
- this weekend the garage roof might be coming off! Ready for getting the back garden done... have been taking inspiration from small gardens at Chelsea.

Living here is ace! It's our place and it's just wonderful.

if not you, then who else?

Today I have been up to River Darwen Parkway with a bunch of volunteers, organised by the Lancashire Wildlife Trust. Click here to read more about their work at RDP. It's a lovely big bit of land, with good views and nice wide open spaces for getting lots of lovely fresh air. Community projects like this are only as good as the people involved in them - so support your local community projects!

I've had a really good laugh today - we were working on an area of heather, that is being encroached upon by trees. So, trees that had taken root in the heather needed to be pulled out before they affected the pH balance of the soil and cause the heather to die, and the bigger trees needed to be cut down to prevent their effects on the soil.



I was trusted with a band saw and a pruning saw and everything. And I only nearly hit a person with a tree once, so all is good.



Look at the views and space - a brilliant amenity for the people of Ewood and Fernhurst - but do they know it's there and what's going on there?



Click here to read about the site on Blackburn Council's Website

Click here to see how work done by Changing Places on the site.