A busy weekend...as always.

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As the weather forecast was wrong once again…they had forecast rain and thunderstorms…but I think we had about 10 drops of badly needed rain over the complete weekend !!. For some reason I went to the composter on friday afternoon and saw it was just a soggy mess!, so I did a search here and found the problem…too much green stuff and not enough brown stuff, because I had been at work on friday I didn´t fancy taking it all out there and then and thought that I´d leave it until saturday morning, me being an early riser I was down in the garden by 7 am, got the fork and rake out and emptied the composter

until I could see the chicken wire I had put at the bottom to stop mice and rats getting in..I didn´t find any of those thank goodness but I did find loads of worms,slugs etc etc, so actualy the compost couldn´t have been in such a bad state if they were still there, I then added loads of torn up newspaper and cardboard and did this in layers..compost..paper & cardboard etc until I had all the compost back in it´s home, then I found some planters from last year that still had soil in them and put that on top….now I hope that the composter will work properly, but as somebody else said composting is like baking a cake…realy it´s a hit or miss thing.
When the OH called me on the mobile phone…yes we do have them in Germany..hihi to go and have a very late breakfast…around mid-day I started to think what I could do in the afternoon, then I thought I would take a chance and try to move the crazy paving..“bampy style” although it had only been drying out for just a week..

I turned it over…and it didn´t crumble to bits !!!, I already knew where it was to go so I took the pieces…as you can see I had made some shapes in the mixture while it was still setting…a few hours after putting the mixture in the carboard frame with a big screwdriver, layed them down approximately where they were to be…pushing them all over the place until I found out where was best, then I thought what could I put inbetween them..sand?…no…I have that between the concrete slabs…once again something came in to my little brain that I had seen in GoY… paths made out of bark chippings…what a brilliant idea thought Rogi !, put that inbetween and it will look a little different, but as the shops had shut by that time I had to wait until this morning when a cheap garden centre is open for a few hours on sunday, so after I had been to a car boot sale…of course I bought something for the garden…a little wooden house meant for pet mice, but I thought it could be a good hideout for frogs near my little pond…any way I went down to the garden centre and bought a 60 litre bag of bark chippings for 2.50 €, took it back to the garden after dinner and put it inbetween the crazy paving…well I think it looks good anyway..!

maybe I will make another frame of the mixture so that the paving is not so spread out…but that another week.

I said above about my small pond for the frogs made out of a big old sink….that was in another blog I think…well nature is taking it´s ways, today I spotted some insect lava swimming about…so one thing will lead to another I hope. I also intended to plant some tomatoes outside…but by then I had had enough, realy I don´t have time to sit down and enjoy my garden as I´m always seeing things to do, although I don´t see it as work…for me its relaxation therapy…and on this note I will end my blog for today.

• 15 May, 2011
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