Garden stuff

 This photo was taken yesterday on my phone from my kitchen window on a rainy day, so apologies for the quality and poor light.  

But that view gives me so much pleasure - a pretty little garden stuffed full of plants, lots of which are starting to flower.  They've really filled out the space nicely and the new rockery is looking lovely.  I've bought trellis panels to go on top of that fence, once they're up and covered with plant growth it'll give us so much more privacy.

Actually getting the trellis put up is proving something of a problem - well, we've not started yet because of the cold wet weather over the past week or so.  This is the sort of job which husband would have done quite easily in the past, and on his own....now it's a different story.  I've said I'm happy to help him but the trouble is he's getting himself tied up in knots trying to work out how to do it - he over-complicates things nowadays, he insists on a 'right' way of doing things which to my mind just seems to make things unnecessarily difficult.  But he won't be told, he dismisses my ideas because I "don't know what I'm talking about", I'm not a builder apparently.  Well no I'm not, but I can think straight and see a simpler way of doing things.  He's going on and on about brackets and T-bars (??) and is confusing himself, never mind me!  I think I might have to seriously consider finding and paying someone to come and do it for us, to save the sanity of both of us.  Trouble is though, a couple of neighbours have each been trying to get someone local to do jobs in their gardens (some fence work in one case) but have had no luck, it seems handymen or gardeners are all booked up for weeks/months ahead, or just unwilling to do the work for whatever reason.  I'll work something out, I'll give it some more thought.