My youngest daughter and her boyfriend have just bought a house.
When they viewed the house the garden was tidy and neat. The previous owners have obviously not no bothered cutting the grass or tidying the borders since the sale was agreed.
You can see the depth of the grass by looking at the 'whippet scale'. Ruby or whippet is hidden at the bottom of the garden.
It's 'just not cricket' that the previous owners did this to a young couple taking their first steps on the property ladder
As a surprise, my wife and I did a 'ground force visit' while the young couple were away for the weekend (to none UK readers 'ground force' is a tv program that does garden make overs to unsuspecting owners !!!)
I think we underestimated the size of the task. It took us all day Saturday and Sunday morning to 'makeover' the garden
Wasn't that kind of us? A nice way to spend our wedding anniversary :)
A sign of the times Phil! I remember buying my first house - it was even more overgrown than this! my next door neighbour told me (after the first clearance) that it was the first time in the 18 years that they had lived there that anyone had tended the garden!! Good on you for helping out, happy belated anniversary!!
Well you are fabulous parents & a credit to your children!!! They certainly brought you up in the way they wish you to behave in the future so well done to them!!! Miserable devils though they got their money & that was it !!! A very happy anniversary to you both!!
@happypat thanks Pat, it was my wifes idea to do the makeover :) although I had thought of doing it too, our eldest daughter helped us on the saturday morning , so it was a joint effort :)
@marlboromaam Maggie, lol, it's only a small urban garden (a back yard in US speech !!!!) ...I should have got you over to help because you are very experienced at tidying back yards :)
Hey, its a conservation area! lol Faced with this would my idea of a great weekend!!! Then again I'm a strange sort of lady............Good on you doing such a great thing for your daughter! So where are all the photo ops of buggy things you found??
July 6th, 2012
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