Thursday 19 February 2009

Bobbed

Retired person has taken up a new temporary career as Bob the Builder.
After buying the Big Tool Box in which to stash his garden tools, [so he can become Shed Man in comfort], he realised he would have to make a level platform for it to stand on [when it is put together]. So after much study and trips to the Manly Shops he has produced the necessary.



Very satisfying.

bouquet







Couldn't resist a snap of the first daffodils, which have been waving valiantly at me from down the bank. They get the morning sun, but also the morning frost - so they are brave as well as encouraging. Clumps of snowdrops all over the place, some are hiding behind my "birthday suit"- with gnomes. It must be protected from frost down there as I expected the terracotta to snap in the first winter, but she just keeps accumulating moss and gnomes.
These snowdrops are along one of the dog walks, every year they storm back, total beauty.
Just to finish on the theme, some of the valentine roses. Forced no doubt, in so many ways, but once they have settled in and loosened up - another beauty.