JON'S JOURNAL: The Garden Game

Spring has definitely sprung, and Graham has been busy in the garden.

First of all, he has been putting our new chainsaw to good use, and preparing some firewood for next winter. It all looks uncharacteristically neat and tidy.

Those of you who have been to the CFZ in the last few years will remember thnat at the 2007 Weird Weekend cocktail party irreparable damage was done to a chunk of the lawn underneath the old spreading beech trees in the middle of the grounds.

We have tried to replant the lawn with differing degrees of success: we tried re-seeding, re turfing, and even translocating chunks of turf from elsewhere in the garden, but nothing worked for more than a few months.

So, we have finally given in to the inevitable, and Graham has created a rather swish new flower bed...

Looking at that picture here I rather think that the handsome fellow on the left has lost some weight. After being on this very stringent diet since the beginning of December I bloody better have!