Bank Holiday Madness

I'm lucky that often my regular days off fall on Bank holidays so I get to enjoy them with everyone else.  Unfortunately Al had to go to work but this time I had my hands full with my niece and nephew helping me out as my Dad finished a project started last autumn.

As you can imagine we got a lot of planting finished, always helpful to have a bit of child labour in the right situation.  They both helped out planting out the tomatoes into their final place. The fork is/was bigger than my niece but she managed to plant a fair few tomatoes!   We also planted  little gems, beetroot, carrots and sweet Williams seeds, in fact the majority of seeds left to plant.   Their garden at home is about the size of our plot so it was lovely to see them getting so into everything.  In the end they also planted a pumpkin each to take home with them with a bit of luck I will be blogging to tell you how big they are at hallowe'en.  

We also placed out the CDs to use as bird scarer.   Originally I left my nephew to take them out into the garden and then we were going to put them out together.  He jumped the gun a little and started to scare the birds his way.....

Yep, he propped the CDs (in the covers) on to our bamboo markers and left them.  I'm not sure if he was making a comment about my taste in music or not but as one was a freebie of British birdsong I doubt it would have much affect on keeping birds out.
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The project my Dad was finishing was the shed base.  My Dad is the type of person who has to do a job properly otherwise he doesn't start or doesn't do a project, so they can take a long time to get done.  As a child I fondly remember the one piece of wall paper up in the living room.  So when Al was given the shed as a birthday present we needed a base.  Due to the garden being so forgotten about we had already found a range of paving slabs ranging from brick to huge thick sandstones (as seen in the middle of the photo) and had decided to use them rather than buy cheap new slabs.  About last November he came and put down the front row of bricks and then it started to rain and kept raining so it never got finished.  Roll forwards to  this week and a few hours later it as done!  The problem now is that we like it too much to use it a shed base and keep toying with the idea of using it as a patio and putting the shed further back.    It doesn't get a lot of sun and is next to the compost bin but is nearer than other points to our door.  What do you think?