A good and productive morning

 We've had a really productive 4 or 5 hours in the garden today.  Washing hung out, tree planted, husband fixed a fence post that had broken.  I did lots of weeding and pruned 3 large rose bushes.  I dug up 2 clumps of succulent type plants that had appeared in one of the raised beds out of nowhere and put them in pots - free plants for what will be our new rockery.  Picked up loads of dead leaves and twigs blown around the garden and swept the paths.  Pulled up around a dozen or more leeks that hadn't grown properly or were split or had gone to seed.....dug up 4 or 5 useable ones - we needed that raised bed clear for new veg seed sowings from next month.  Two of the raised beds have been topped up with fresh compost, levelled out and then covered over to warm the soil up ready for seed sowing.  We've half filled a dumpy bag with all the prunings, weeds, leaves and twigs.  Bit more to do when the weather is next dry enough, then the bag will be loaded in the car and taken to the tip.  We calculated how many more bags of compost we'll need - probably 6 or 8 - plus a couple of bags of small slate or pebbles, we'll have all that delivered by the local garden centre.  We also need to get a couple of planks or sleepers for husband to renew the edging on one or two sides of the gravel beds.

I'm hoping - well, planning - for all of the garden works to be completed this year, so it's just a question of maintenance after that.  My little legacy is helping to buy all that we need, that windfall has covered lots of small jobs and some small and larger purchases.   

We've stopped for the day now, both of us have aching backs and sore muscles.  We should both sleep well tonight.  Betty was out in the garden with us all morning, she didn't do anything much except follow us around and sniff everything but it's worn her out too.

I see there's nothing much we want to watch on TV tonight, not all of us are sports fans!  I expect we'll look for a film to watch.