Archive of posts from July 2004


Feature sleeper steps

“Garden with feature sleeper steps” was the only thing that the estate agents could find to say about our garden in the listing of the house on their Web site. As you can see, that was probably all they could say…. Read on

What have we let ourselves in for?

Well, we’ve finally taken the plunge and bought our own house. It’s a 1930s, three bedroom, semi-detached house less than two miles from the centre of Bristol (UK). The house will need plenty of work and the garden is a bit of a “blank canvas”:- This view is from the back bedroom and you can see the brick-built workshop on the right, the dog kennel behind it and er, that’s about it… Our garden has... Read on