Alright for some in this heat.....

Absolutely beautiful day today.  Very hot which I don't normally like, but I knew it is time to hack away the wilderness in the garden.  Not sure if I will get it all done this summer, but worth a try.

Getting started on this patch - first - thats all gone now, except for a few blackberry plants up in the corner. 

Now to attempt to put up the pagoda.  I just happen to have one that is at least 15 years old, when you had a bag full of numbered poles, a silly instruction sheet, which is so difficult to follow, some pegs, string, stands, joins, and last of all the plastic sheet to go over.

There is only me to do it - not that there isn't anybody around, they decided to be just an audience and make jokey comments.  Not my husband I hasten to add, he was busy in another part of the garden. 

Well here goes.....

Hey some of the numbers have come off the poles.....oh no.....which goes where?  I scrabble around for the instruction sheet, only to find out that it had got damp in the shed and here I am pressing out the creases so that I can just about see the number poles to go where???

Whee - so far so good - now the tricky bit, getting the last two poles onto each corner.  Thats three poles to hold this up on each corner.  Oh no the wind is picking up.......huff and puff......holding on the whole thing with one hand and trying to place the poles in the corner......

I have done it!!!  Well done me. 

Oh look you can see beyond the pagoda where I have been working today.  Lot better, but still got at loads of "patches" to do. My patches are about 3 meters square. I couldn't cope with any more than that in a day.

Our garden has an abundance of self sown blackberry bushes, everywhere.  I won't allow them to be dug out til I have harvested every blackberry there is.  Only then can the roots be dug out - because at the end of the day it is a weed, a weed that spreads with the help of birds - cos they like blackberries too and spit the pips out somewhere else...and presto another blackberry bush for the following year!

Ahhh here I am sweating bucket loads......and here is my companion -

Resting in the sun......Its alright for some!