{"id":13271,"date":"2013-04-20T20:33:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T19:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13271"},"modified":"2013-04-20T20:33:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T19:33:28","slug":"a-hard-day-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/04\/a-hard-day-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hard Day in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, as predicted it was indeed a gorgeous day<\/a> today, and after a solid 12 hours working in the garden my back is killing me and it’s time for a well-earned rest.<\/p>\n

I started off with a little bit of gardening at 6am this morning, doing quiet things like weeding so as not to wake the neighbours. I soon moved on to clearing out behind the sheds around the back of the house. The Ivy had gone mad and was taking over the world, and the sheds themselves needed sorting out and moving a little bit. This meant dismantling them slightly, sorting out all of the junk and clearing out the entire length of the area behind the house.<\/p>\n

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Behind the House<\/p><\/div>\n

Anna and Morgan joined in once they were up and about and we all worked at it all day long, stopping\u00a0briefly\u00a0for cheese and biscuits for lunch. It was hard work to say the least but it looks much better now and should be easier to keep that way. I also have a complete car-load of junk ready to go to the tip – why did we keep half of that stuff in the first place. There is an issue here though because now that we’ve put it all in the back of my car, the back door has jammed shut so we’re not sure if we’ll ever be able to get it out. If you hear lots of shouting coming from the tip in Aberystwyth tomorrow it’s us doing our best to empty the junk via the passenger doors. There are some things that definitely\u00a0won’t come out that way though so I’m not sure what we’ll do yet.<\/p>\n

The big shed could do with a good clear-out as well but I’m not looking forward to that so will save that for another weekend.<\/p>\n

Finding Morgan jobs wasn’t always easy but once we got him cleaning my Surf Ski he seemed pretty happy. What do you expect if you give an 8 year old a hose pipe to play with. I’m not sure how clean the ski ended up but he seemed to be cleaning it for most of the day!<\/p>\n

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Surf Ski<\/p><\/div>\n

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We had planned to have a go at clearing our Dave and Sarah’s greenhouse as well so that we can use it to house some seedlings and cuttings ready for the Scouts to sell at the summer charities fete \u00a0later in the summer. By the time we’d done all the other things though there just wasn’t time to get around to it. We did use their bonfire area to burn a load of rubbish though so kept looking at the greenhouse as we passed, we just never quite plucked up the courage or energy to tackle it – Maybe we’ll have to get the Scouts to do it before they can use it!<\/p>\n\n\t\t