When I was growing up I remember my mum collecting all the magazines about interior design and gardening. She still is obsessed with her garden. She can spend hours planting, trimming and do all the stuff a garden needs and you know what, it bores me silly. I hate gardening. I want a nice garden but I lose patience within 5 minutes of being on my knees stirring soil.
I have all the stuff a girl needs to garden though: the pretty flowery gloves and all the rest. I bought them following a huge impulse to become a gardening queen. I was dreaming a lovely flowers growing in my garden and especially tulips (my favourite ones). I lost all interest in it the minute I noticed that all my lilies had been decapitated by my sons... why bother...
Anyway I have been advised to stay away from the garden and just stick to putting the washing up to dry or lie on lounger when I step outside. Actually I have been clearly requested to stay away from any green living stuff as the minute I lay my hands on them they die! I already explained this in the past when I found myself amazed that I had three LIVING plants in my house. They have all died since then, due to excessive watering and being exposed to the sun at the wrong time of the day...
Lately I have also pulled the mint Craig has been trying to grow for a few months thinking it was weed and emptied a whole bucket of water with cillit bang on the potatoes he is growing at the bottom of the garden.
If only I was the only one but even the dog is a disaster in the garden and the cause of terrible lawn problems we are having! Her incessant peeing on different areas of the garden resulted in a very patchy lawn and this following a whole weekend that Craig spent digging, turning soil and laying new lawn...
Maybe we should purchase an allotment for Craig's next birthday, a place where both the dog and I would be banned...
Just a note - I have a "Cybermummy" post brewing, but until then, I wanted to say a huge thank you to the organisers (Susanna, Jen and Sian) and of course Huggies for sponsoring me and other great bloggers to attend this FABULOUS event!
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