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Operation Garden Renovation #7 The Landscaping is finished!

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Yep this is it, big reveal time! Although the garden is far from finished and we still have a lot of work to do, the landscaping work has now been done. First of all a reminder at what the garden … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Home & Garden, Life

Tagged Garden, garden design, happiness, Operation Garden Renovation, outdoor play

Apr·30

Operation Garden Renovation #6 – Work begins!

Posted by Caroline Elliott

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Regular readers will know that we have been renovating our garden. It has been a real labour of love and we spent about 5 weeks on the clearance side. We decided to get landscapers in to do the actual um… … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Home & Garden, Life

Tagged Garden, Operation Garden Renovation

Apr·16

Operation Garden Renovation #5 Bringing in the Big Guns

Posted by Caroline Elliott

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So far we have pruned, chopped, broken, burned and disposed of almost everything in the garden. After last weekend we had a pile of rubbish and broken slabs that wouldn’t fit into the skip, so we agreed we would need … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Home & Garden, Life

Tagged Operation Garden Renovation

Mar·26

Monkey is in charge of Operation Garden Renovation

Posted by Caroline Elliott

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With Operation Garden Renovation consuming our lives at the moment, we haven’t been out and about quite as much as usual, but Monkey has been more than happy to help us in the garden, and has very much enjoyed all … Continue reading →

Posted in 21 months, Garden, Home & Garden, Life

Tagged Garden, Operation Garden Renovation, outdoor play

Mar·14

Operation Garden Renovation #3 The Bonfire!

Posted by Caroline Elliott

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Operation Garden Renovation is now well under way and with the help of hubby’s brothers we made some fantastic progress last weekend, though I have to say I never realised before that my hubby’s family was a family of pyromaniacs!! … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Home & Garden, Life

Tagged Operation Garden Renovation

Mar·12

Design Ideas for Operation Garden Renovation – Our Spring Project

Posted by Caroline Elliott

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You may have read that we have started Operation Garden Renovation this Spring. We had it in mind that we would get going with this project this year and with the sunny weather arriving, we have made the most of … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Home & Garden, Life

Tagged garden design, Operation Garden Renovation, The Prompt, The Theme Game

Mar·10

Operation Garden Renovation #2 Starting the Clearance

Posted by Caroline Elliott

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If you read last week’s post, you’ll know that we have a whole load of clearance to do in this garden, and that one post is not really going to cover it. It is probably going to take quite a … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Home & Garden, Life

Tagged Operation Garden Renovation

Mar·05

Operation Garden Renovation

Posted by Caroline Elliott

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The first breaths of spring are in the air and it is time to venture into the garden and start our mission to make it better. Our back garden is a mess. When we moved into our house a couple … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Home & Garden, Life

Tagged hard work, Operation Garden Renovation

Feb·26

Loving our Garden

Posted by Caroline Elliott

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I have never been much of a gardener, and in all honesty have been pretty uninterested in becoming a gardener. That is, until we renovated our garden. Suddenly I really enjoy it! I don’t like weeding and I still don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Age 3-3 1/2, Garden, Home & Garden

Tagged bugs, digging, family fun, Garden, gardening, happiness, mud, nature hunt, plants

Aug·13

Adding some colour to the garden

Posted by Caroline Elliott

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A big project for us this year has been our garden. Regular readers will know all about Operation Garden Renovation and the time and effort we have put into turning our garden from this: (although at this point we had … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Home & Garden, Life

Tagged Garden, happiness, hard work, Operation Garden Renovation

Jun·17

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