Maintaining our garden can be quite time consuming, and so we welcome any help that we are offered. Andree wanted to borrow our jet-washer for her slabs, and so we kindly allowed her to practice by cleaning our patio. Obviously she was closely managed, as indeed am I whenever I do any tasks in the garden. All we’ had to do afterwards was to deal with the dirt that was lifted from the patio and placed on the patio doors….
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A post and photos from our Northumberland holiday will appear shortly!
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
