Has anybody else noticed that gardening seems to be something that you only "grow" into as you get older?? When you are small the garden is somewhere to play and build dens. Once you reach your teenage years gardens cease to exist. It stays that way until you have your own children, when once again it becomes a play ground. Then some more years, where it is, "garden? What?? Garden?"
Then suddenly you hit your "mid" years and it becomes "lets do something about the garden"!
You may have gathered by now that we have (sort of) rediscovered our garden this year. In the spring we built 2 deck areas. Great for putting your sunbed on! That is of course, on the rare occasion in Britain that the sun decides to shine! We were going to pave much of the rest to make it easier to manage with the dogs. However that didn't happen due to lack of funds. We have ear marked that for next spring. We did plant lots and lots of pretty flowers and things, some of which are still putting on a show now due to the mild autumn. We also got an old butler sink from Simons school which we planted up with rockery type plants.
Today, we have paid another visit to the garden centre and got lots of bulbs. We have Tulips, Daffodils, Crocus and Hyacinths which we have planted out this afternoon. So hopefully if the dogs or squirrels don't dig them up we should have a nice show in the spring.
I have concluded that the fact I derived pleasure from this is a sign, that I am in fact now in my "Mid" years!! 
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