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Since getting some gardeners to help cut back the overgrowth, we have had them back semi-regularly for maintenance. Unfortunately some of the plants were too far gone and had to be removed, so we have been investigating the local garden centres (and their cafes!) for new plants. These have now been planted and we hope in future to have some jasmine nicely trained around the patio and wisteria on our archway.
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Whilst at the garden centre, we bought some herbs for the kitchen balconet 'breakfast bar'. They are doing amazingly well so far, but we will see if we can keep up the watering schedule long term. It's really convenient to have fresh herbs readily available when cooking.
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-- water wizards
One of the other improvements we have made is to improve the wifi signal at the back of the house. Originally we would have little to no signal in the garden due to our very thick walls. It now works so well that we sometimes end up connected to the wrong wifi depending on whether we enter the house from the front or the back.
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Our garden gate has been getting steadily less and less secure. The lock was dangling by a single screw in a slowly rotting screwhole. It would probably have given way with a good shove or a particularly gusty day. We thought this less than ideal, so we bought a new garden gate lock. It was a bit annoying to install, avoiding existing rusty screws and holes and the doorframe, but we managed it with (on average) half our tempers lost.
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Well, we are delighted to announce we actually did order one. It was made to order, so it took several months to arrive. One of the reasons we went with this company was that they could use the exact same shade of paint as our walls.
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Woohoo bench. Very useful to sit on to put shoes on. It is very long, can fit many shoes and has a little basket with spare slippers that our visitors can use.
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So we bought some anyway with our personal 'Fun Money' that we allow ourselves out of our monthly income.
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The biggest downside so far is that they are so cool that everyone we pass in them has to ask us about them.
This also means we have a spare inflatable tandem kayak if anyone wants to come join us in a flotilla down the river!