If you've noticed something strange happening....

I have just been having fun trying out new templates on this blog.  I found a website where I can download free blog backgrounds (just click on the link in the top left corner of this page or type the address into the address bar), and I just can't make my mind up which one I like best.  So be warned that there might just be a new background every time you visit!

While the rain held off today I managed to get a little bit more gardening done, I have finished the 2nd 1/2 of the garden bed at the front of the house and took away a big wheelbarrow full of weeds.  Yesterday I had two wheelbarrows' worth of scrambling roses, blackberry, English ivy, nettles and goodness knows what else.  It is starting to make quite a nice burn pile!

Then I started scraping the footpath with a square mouthed shovel to lift up all the moss and grass that had almost covered the concrete.  I think doing that was more exhausting than pruning and pulling weeds, I felt stiff and sore for the rest of the day and I'd only worked for about an hour.  The war has only just begun on the garden though, I'm sure the blackberry will be back in force by spring.  I even found it growing directly out of the stone wall - the mongrel stuff will grow anywhere.

So the garden is looking quite forlorn now as there isn't much left of it - just a few clumps of grasses, some snowdrops that I accidentally started chopping into with my new garden hoe (pffft!  that's what the Poms call a garden hoe, but it's a tiny little thing compared to the big hoes we can buy in Australia - where's a Bunning's when I need one??), some nasturtiums that are growing in a big wooden trough and some gnarled old shrub that I have pruned back so hard there is probably one twiggy little branch left on it.  I'll give it til late spring to start getting shrubby or it will be mulch!

And after all that talk about gardening, disappointingly I have no pic.  I will try to post one tomorrow.