Gardening and wall papering

So yesterday Keith's parents came over to help us put up the wall paper in the bedroom and also tidy up the garden.

Keith and his dad got to work in the bedroom and I am really pleased with how it has come out, which is always a bit of a relief with the wallpaper costing £30 a roll you don't want it to be messed up! The only things left to do in the bedroom is to put up some shelves and change the carpet, then I can decide what room to do next!

As far as the garden goes, we had a very large and overgrown shrub which appeared to be dead underneath, so Keith's mum and I have cut this right down. Whether we decide to keep it or take it up, I will need to think (it is on the right hand side of the picture above). When cutting that back we discovered another shrub there and a trellice, so again we cut that back and I have decided to place the jasmine plant there and get that to climb (hopefully).

Unfortunately the little seeds I planted have died as we left them outside, so will start again with some new seeds. I think I may see if I can get a small glass house which I can put them in and keep an eye on them. Maybe on bank holiday Monday I might take a trip to the nursery and see what takes my fancy!

Hi all, thought I would give you a brief up date on how the garden is doing and the decorating generally. Hoping to finish off some of the painting as that has going by the way side slightly. As far as the garden goes, you can see that the fruit plants (gooseberry, raspberry and blackberry) are coming on nicely. The gooseberry seems to be the best so far with more green leave on whereas the blackberry seems the worst with only a couple of new buds, but I am sure we will get there.

You may be wondering why there is a picture of a cat that isn't Arwen. Well, it seems that Arwen is a bit of, well.... a tart, and has two, yes two! boyfriends. There is a big black fluffy one which comes calling but she isn't keen on him and I think he is a bit of a bully so we chase him out of the garden. The other one, who we have affectionally called Bob (as he doesn't have a name tag on his collar), is very friendly and is happy to be stroked and picked up. Arwen is a little wary of him and tollerates him being there. He is very sweet so we don't mind him so much, plus he was happy to pose for a picture.