Working Hard

I uncovered one of the patches before we arrived to begin some work. We learnt so much in that one afternoon. For one we didn't buy enough compost, another is pulling weeds is bloody hard work!

That's me with the pink hair and pink gloves. Can you tell I like pink? Anyway I'm actually breaking up lumps of soil because it's actually damp even though we've had no rain for a long time, however when we did have rain it was buckets loads. We also learnt that we needed a few more tools for the job and my fiancé's boss kindly gave us some basics but we forgot to ask if he had a rake. That would have been of much use to us, but we'll use it tomorrow when we're back up there again.

We did however get to sow the seeds of parsnips and carrots. We have put some wood into the middle of the patch you can see me working on in the photograph as it was way too big for us to get into the middle to water and tend to so did what others have done and made a walkway in the middle to allow us to go over to look after them without doing any harm. The wood we're using at the moment is rotting away though so we'll need to get some better stuff soon enough.

Also I've learnt another thing to always have with you.

I look like a roast chicken, as my fiancé kindly put it. Been having cool showers and putting Sudocrem on the red skin to help soothe the pain as well as help with the healing. So yes I recommend you have some sun lotion with you during these summery days.

In other news remember in my last post how I roughly drew our a plan? Well that's scrapped. We found healthy raspberries where we were going to put the flowers and they need something to keep them upright. I'm rather excited about this find and only realised it was ours when our friendly neighbour stated they were ours and sure enough they are on our land, all over the place they may be but they are rooted on our side. He is also kindly making a bit of space in his shed for us to put our stuff in until we get given our own shed and has given us a key. He also warned us to cover the large hole at the bottom of the door as wasps enjoy coming in and nesting. Oh boy, I cannot wait(!)

Tomorrow will be tricky. Well for one I still in a fair bit of pain from the sunburn, but it's going to be mostly tricky as it'll be the first time we'll be there as a family with our two your old boy in tow. I think we're going to have to swap jobs as one of us looks after him whilst the other does some gardening, hopefully things will work out ok. We have shade from some apple trees so we can go under there when we want to cool off. Perhaps bring a picnic with us. Who knows.

Wish us luck!