There really is no better sight than a man on a digger, doing a year’s worth of hard spade slog in a single afternoon. (Single green-thumbed ladies: I highly recommend you start hanging out at new subdivisions, building sites, roading developments and anywhere else earthworks are required. A man who can operate heavy machinery, especially while dressed in a reflectorised vest that’s fashionably colour-coordinated with his excavator, is very useful indeed.)
This is where our new lawn is going. It will be a formal, slightly sunken lawn edged with a low wall of recycled kerbing stones (the Hunk brought them home from work too) and it’s going to look magnificent surrounded by a meadow of wildflowers. That’s if it ever stops raining for long enough for me to spray the old grass off around the edges so I can start sowing. Is there any such thing as a pagan sun-dance?
Hi Linda, I quite agree about the usefulness of a digger in the garden. But why wait for a man???? I am a Grandma in my sixties, and I use our digger to “garden” all the time. I love it, you can get done in an hour what would normally take a month with a shovel and wheelbarrow.They are not hard to learn to ‘drive’. Every girl should have one!!!
Cool, can’t wait to see the finished garden (obviously no garden is ever ‘finished’ but you know what I mean!).