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    Collecting leaves:yahoo::autlvs::thumbsup:
     
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      Loli

      It must be the dry weather as the trees around my office are falling so much earlier than last year,
       
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      Oh no, it's not that time again is it Loli! You seemed to be collecting leaves forever last year. :heehee:
       
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        :yikes: Trees? Or just the leaves Spruce?

        Hasn't been that windy lately has it?
         
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          Collecting dry :autlvs: too :) ready to protect the musas with.
          Collecting seeds ready for the seed swap;)
           
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          My 3 cyclamen have stated disappearing, 1 is completely gone already. They were summer flowering ones though I think. Maybe it's weevil grubs, I've just left them to it as got many things to take their place. :)
          That reminds me- a job for tomorrow is to plant more in the shadyish path where they are. At the moment I have astilbes, primroses, hostas and aquilegia there. I'm going to add more aquilegia and possibly foxgloves. I've also got 3 dianthus to plant out, going to be busy!
           
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          leaves :snork: but saying that last summer as I was walking into the office I heard a noise in the canopy and a huge branch just missed me the woman behind me screamed and then told me how lucky I was
           
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          I love it Sheal:hapfeet:...have I shown you my leaf mould? I think I have but I'll show you again:hapfeet::rolleyespink::heehee:

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            looks like a Christmas cake mix
             
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              Yes, I do like your leaf mould Loli, I could do with some of that myself. :)

              Spruce....I wouldn't want to be eating your Christmas cake. :heehee:
               
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                Just spent an hour collecting snails. I'm not allowed to stamp on them any more. They're kept in a cage with some dry pasta for a few days, then.....well.....they get an exciting if brief ride in the car to my bestest friends place. 'Nuff said.:eeew:
                 
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                  @JackJJW I liked what you have done but are you going to try to get your house upright? :heehee:

                  With the new path that I made we decided we didn't like the look of it. We've removed the pretty stepping stones from the driveway to the front door and replaced them with rectangular slabs. The idea was to do away with all the awkward trimming of grass around the edges of the old paving. I had to have the lawn around the old ones cut away from them because my feet are too big! :hate-shocked:

                  When I first laid them down, many years ago, the idea was to have them sunken in the lawn and no need for edges. The trouble was, after having laid them, we found that my size 12's were too big to fit on the stones and were turning the edges of the lawn around them in to mud patches in wet weather. So I had to cut out approx. 2" around each of them. This has become very awkward for me to keep trimmed. Hence the change of path.
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                  So we (I) decided to make a solid path in its place and remove all the lawn between the path and the flower bed - also an awkward bit for mowing. When I laid the slabs in a solid line they looked awful! :sad: So I had to apply Plan B. (There had only been Plan A up to that moment :heehee:.)

                  I spaced the slabs out, patched in some of the lawn I'd taken away and I hope I will just be able to mow over it.
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                  I now have Plans C and D.

                  Plan C is to buy some metal lawn edging to stop the slabs moving into the flower bed. I'll then be able to take some of the soil away from the edge of the bed so that there won't be much mud splashing.

                  Plan D is a contingency plan. If the lawn between the slabs is too much of a nuisance I'll remove it, put a small amount of cement (sunken) in its place and embed some shingle/stones in it.
                   
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                    I'm definitely planting my Tulips today...I've been saying this for days:rolleyespink:
                     
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                      Me too. I have been given 2 bags of Tulips from the local garden shop for buying Wolf Garten tools.
                       
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