lol. Can’t wait to see pictures. I remember loving all of the gardens I saw in my time in the UK. Quite a bit different from we consider a garden here. I think the best kind of garden is the unplanned garden, wild and beautiful. Cheers.

I detest gardening with a venegance.

We’ve a fair size here at Castle Clark at the insistence of my other half. And once a month, I fork out for a team of Irish navvies/Polish migrants to do the soty of ball-busting, back-breaking and frankly all-too-sweaty hard labour you’ve just mentioned.

I’d even go to a Keane gig than have to mow my lawn….

Hello Joolz – It’s not raining here, but it is threatening every half hour or so. As they say in Scotland, if you don’t like the weather.. wait ten minutes and it’ll change. I think Jacob Golden played here quite recently actually, although I didn’t – shame on me.

Hello C&B old chap. Yes, I’m not sure what officially kicks it off around here. Crocuses are out, but the daffs are still sleeping in pretty much every garden. We don’t know much about gardening at all, but pretty much everything we’ve planted has thrived, so perhaps the soil under those slabs wasn’t too bad after all. And we did dig it through really thoroughly, which I guess helped.