We've been here a year!!

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  1. UsedtobeDendy

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    Thanks for that, Fran! :D
    We're nothing like finished, though - just wait for the year 2 update!! Mind you, we'll probably need to be wheeled about in wheelchairs by then... :rolleyes:
     
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    It's looking Fantastic Dendy [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] Soooo much hard work you've put in and all that in a year!! I'm not worthy!! [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]
     
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    What a transformation Dendy - amazing [​IMG] I dont how how you did all that and managed to work for others too! [​IMG]
     
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    Thanks everyone!! It's not just been me - Mr D has done loads of invisible jobs, like laying the electricity and plumbing down to the greenhouses and garden, and other things like the greenhouse, building the picket fence, and now he's digging the pond! And M-in-l down in the dungeon is a very enthusiastic gardener who does more than her share too! And, of course, Plant with a Pickaxe came along and did a spot of rotavating in what was then almost a sea of mud, and is now the cottage garden, and took down and away the large shed in the same area!
     
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    Paladin Gardening...A work of Heart

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    :eek: ..... [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]
    You ought to go into business :D
     
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    All I can say Dendy is WOW!!!!! You put the rest of us to shame........ what a transformation!!!!!! How on earth do you get time to work??!!

    ps - the Tomatilloes didn't come to anything - lots of show, though... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: theres always next year......
     
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    Thanks for the tip, Nick! I'll bear it in mind.....

    Maybe I could call myself - oh, no, that could be advertising, couldn't it!! :D
     
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    Paladin Gardening...A work of Heart

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    And if you over charged customers it might a case of in 'd end, rob i um' [​IMG] :D
     
  9. UsedtobeDendy

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    It's how I get those muscles, HB!! :D A great workout, of at least 7 hours a day throughout the summer - and quite a few most other times!!

    here's how it got done!!
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    I'm so glad I hadn't seen that last comment before I posted the photo - I might have felt inclined to say something!! As it is - what can I say?????

    Oh, BTW - note Bella - ever present companion!! Seems to be eating the soil, for some strange reason....
     
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    Spread The Word...... ;)

    [ 04. October 2006, 06:58 PM: Message edited by: Webmaster ]
     
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    Thank you so much, Roders!!
     
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    Now, that's cheating ... I see you have help you have not told us about (except being company in the car/van)! :rolleyes: Poor Bella has probably been digging like crazy and you lazing back with a cuppa watching her do all the work! :D :D :D
     
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    Quite right, LoL! She loved to dig up the grass - unfortunately some of it we didn't want dug up.....

    And it wasn't a cuppa, it was [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]
     
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    In looking back, Dendro, I have to apologise. I made lots of comments before dinner and obviously my Add Reply did not get done.

    I think the railings are fantastic and you put your neighbours to shame. You've worked like a slave with fantastic results and you must be very proud.

    I particularly like the driveway area and your hanging thingys down the side, looks classy!

    T'other half said that it may have been on the side of the garage but you didn't have to put the picture on it's side so we all had to put our heads on our right shoulder, did you? :D :D
     
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