Setup Spare Room Urgently

I am going to be very busy tomorrow night, I may have a friend staying in the spare room sometime this week. The spare room is currently a dumping ground and the pine bed is in pieces on the floor, so will need to assemble it tomorrow night and buy some sheets, etc. As well as clear all the junk from the room. I still haven't painted the walls either but it doesn't matter. They said they would bring their airbed and sleeping bag and it would be like camping. Hopefully I will have the room a bit better than that.

It may not happen but best to be prepared.

Garden Progress

I finally got around to taking a picture of how my garden is at the moment, it needs some weeding (again). The pictures below show how it has changed since March. Still loads to do, but will get there in the end.

(Above) 23/09/06

(Above) 21/08/06

(Above) 14/06/06

(Above) 29/05/06

(Above) 26/03/06

House Prices

While mentioning useful sites I guess I should mention Net House Prices, it's an excellent site that I've used for over a year now. It shows every house that has been sold in the country and the prices they were sold for since 2000. Interesting to see how prices have changed and how much people have paid for their houses.

Gardening

I didn't get up until late this morning, it was almost dinner time. Yet last night I managed to get to sleep almost straight after writing the post on here. Maybe the relaxation music I was listening to while blogging actually helped. I must of slept about 10 hours last night :-)

I got up and decided to work on my garden, I flattened it down by treading it in, my mother helped with this and we tried to make it as level as possible. I then spread the grass seed as per the instructions on the packet, it almost covered the entire area. I had marked it slightly bigger anyway (luckily). I then lightly raked the grass seed in.

After doing the grass I planted a few plants at the house end of my garden. I had a rhododendron I rescue from my garden before the tractor originally turned it over. I also had a dwarf rhododendron in my parents garden I bought over 10 years ago. I got a couple of other plants from my parents garden as well, like a hosta (snail eaten). It certainly looks better but I need loads more plants but will wait until the grass is coming through before planting anymore.

I watered the the plants in but it started to rain just after I finished, which is good for the grass seed and the plants :-)