Working Wednesday.

My task for today in the garden was working up the top.

These photos might not be interesting to a lot of people, but I want to record my progress as it will be good to look back on hopefully.

I wanted to start clearing the path that runs behind the summer house.

It has become pretty much completely covered.

Starting to make progress.

There IS a path hidden under here, but the rocks over the years have moved down and are now on top of the paving slabs.

Can just see the path starting to show now.

The path then curves up towards the orchard fence line.  This is where the rocks have moved down the hill and ended up on the path.

Looking along the path from the other side.

You can now see that the path curves.  It curves in lots of places, adds interest I think.  It would have been great to have seen what the garden used to look like pre-the people we bought the property from.

I also started to clear along and beside the brick retaining wall that is in front of the summer house.

This is what I have to contend with!

It was hard going, but there was a path along there as well.

This is going down from the large tree at the back.

A path is starting to appear.

I found a good bucket underneath all that shrubbery as well as rubbish!

In the front

My Zinnia (I think that was what I planted) is starting to flower.

My lunch time view.

My loaf of bread turned out a funny shape today, but tasted delicious when I used it to make a sandwich for my lunch.

Rather proud of this yellow courgette!

I did 20 minutes sanding on the bedside cabinet in the afternoon - that is about all I can manage at a time.

So slow progress is being made.  I might need to put some more varnish/paint stripper on it.

The guinea pigs spent the day in their outside hutch.

Jeremy and Murphy 

Bailey and Felix.

I went for a nice walk late afternoon, before dinner.

Ships passing.

Glistening sea - quite a contrast to the other day.

Cows on the hill

Mostly with their back to me.

Cinnabar Moth caterpillar

Bright colours, probably poisonous

Total walked today: 4.1 miles

So a pretty full day of working hard.  Hopefully that will mean I sleep well.

Friday

A quiet walk before lunch today.

Nature seen:

Cormorant

Bee on Teasel

This bee was alive, but not sure for how long.  Sorry out of focus!

A Cinnabar Moth caterpillar

Total walked:  4 miles

In the garden today:

I moved the bird feeder to the front in the hope that I might get more birds after seeing how many the people across the road have on theirs.  This way if we do get bird life I am more likely to see it than just from the kitchen window when it was out the back.  Hoping so anyway.

Gorgeous rose.

I did some strimming of the long grass and weeds in the orchard today and dug up some potatoes and beetroot.   I was a bit disappointed when I cooked the potatoes yesterday - they looked lovely, but they just seem to crumble up into nothing.  I thought the first time it happened it was because I boiled them too long, but I know that wasn't the case yesterday.

More beans also picked and also chard.

I'm a bit worried about how dry the ground is.  

Large cracks are appearing in the garden, front and back.