We've not been around much lately... partly we've been very busy and partly because we needed a bit of a break - we tend to get far too absorbed when we're building websites and it's nice occasionally to chillout and catch up with ourselves. We really enjoy the websites we build and are far too attached to our computers most of the time! We can lose weeks at a time if we get stuck into something and the rest of life tends to get stuck on hold.

If you've seen Paul's latest blog entry you'll know that we've been busy in the garden - I'm sure we should really have been working on websites but things are a bit "inbetween" at the moment and I really want to get the garden looking nice for the summer so we decided to take a weekend off and play with mud and seedlings.

Originally I'd only intended to repot some things, get the grass cut and have a bit of a tidy up but when Paul suggested going to the garden center to get a rake I knew that we'd get carried away! I was actually quite restrained - usually a trip to Wyvales ends up severely denting the finances... so many pretty things! but this time whilst being a little more expensive than planned was still very cheap

So... we returned armed with a rake, a Rosemary plant that had been reduced because it was looking rather sorry for itself (but should perk up quite nicely), a Salvia (the lavendar-looalike that Paul mentioned) and a couple of herbs for the pots on the patio to replace a couple of casualties that didn't survive the winter.

We decided to dig a small border to plant the Rosemary and Salvia thinking that we'd wait till I had more plants before digging the rest but Paul figured that while we were on a roll we may as well dig more. Now we have a border that goes most of the way round our little patch of grass! I found a few more plants I could add to them and am planning to get a few more of the £1.50 herb pots later on so things don't look quite so bare. Then I'm going to have to wait till the seeds I planted are ready to put in the garden... there are lots of little green shoots so far so I'm optimistic that we'll have some nice plants to show for our efforts but I'm still waiting for the Lupins to germinate so I can plant Lupins and Foxgloves along the back of the grass.

It felt a bit sad digging up the edges of the lawn - we worked so incredibly hard to get nice grass! It took us about 3 weeks to dig it over, sieve out rubble, level it off and seed it. Paul had a battle of wits with a very tatty Laurel bush that needed to come out culminating in a triumphant cry at 10.00 one Sunday evening when it finally gave up the fight! Sad though it may have been we know it will look really nice when the plants have established so it should all be woth it in the end - and we do still have a nice patch of green in the middle. Another good thing that came out of the digging was finding lots of Bluebell bulbs which were duly rescued for future use - I love Bluebells!

We have some Heartsease, Violets, two varieties of Cornflower and several varieties of Sweet Peas for the patio pots which should brighten things up a little. The Jasmine is starting to fill out the trellis and the herbs seem to be doing well. The patio had a really good scrubbing on Sunday and is looking loved again.

I'm off to get a few more plants now though the weather doesn't look very inspiring today - I'm praying that it brightens up later on or at least doesn't rain so I can finish what we started yesterday.