Too funny! I seem to have the same problem and I already have specs. Probably just a case of wishful thinking, always wishing it were bigger :)

Almost exactly half the estimate! Lol! It shows you have a generous nature, Sharni :-)

So easily done: it's very hard to estimate distances by eye alone unless one has something to use as a visual ruler: street lamps a set distance apart, etc (used to be telegraph poles *s*).

It's what gets me with mobility forms - "can you walk 50 yards undaided?" I don't know, what's fifty yards? I know it's 150 feet, but how far is it *on the ground*? I've no idea!

wishful thinking, perhaps haha... I thought I was close but was so far out, I was rather put out when I found out it's so much smaller than I imagined... Still at least now I know so when people ask me how big is my garden I can officially say, ohhh about the size of a postage stamp. :D

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lol my "garden is 10' at it's "longest" - *that's* a postage stamp!

Well Fran before I moved here I had a balcony measuring about 20' x 4' - I loved it though and filled it with pots of sweet peas and geraniums. Big learning curve living here.

lol indeed! up until a year ago I was on the 7th floor and not the communal balcony not eve wide enough for a blade of grass. sigh, I was sort of hoping for a new place that had a garden about half the size of Epping Forest, but ... maybe next time *s*