I started doing this diary in June. If you haven't been following have a look at the Cast of Characters which gives a quick low down on the essential day to day characters who are mentioned here...it will make more sense if you do.

Well, I did get out in the garden today and spent most of the day hacking and slashing. Not a horror movie, just a lot of brambles and nettles and various other stuff. Most of the nettles were bigger than me and I kept stopping because I wondered if I was about to chop a small tree down. I also had to stop frequently to pull all the bits of nettle leaf out of my glove where they were merrily stinging me in revenge. It's also hard to cut down nettles that are taller than yourself without them constantly slapping you in the face, well, I haven't found a way yet. And the brambles scratch your legs of course but I preffer that to being slapped by nettles. At one point the sun was actually out but dressed as I was in long sleeves and already sweating profusely I was less pleased to see it than I might have been otherwise. I've cleared the top foliage off a good size patch now the roots have to be got out and then it will be mulched to be ready for planting in the spring. That's the idea at least.

When I had had enough of that, which was long after my arm was asking me to stop, I came in for a cup of tea and fell asleep under the stairs for two hours, quite unintentionally. By the time I woke up and had a bath it was dinner time. I've been reading a book about planting by which sign the moon is in and last night I read the whole book about composting. Hopefully this week I will have some time to go and find a load of pallets to make the compost bins with. I'm still obsessed with compost.

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