Girlie Gardening (Part 2)
I was in the garden again today. I’m not green fingered and hate the thought of gardening but it has to be done and the benefits are great when you see a lovely garden. So today I’ve been out in my rags with the grass strimmer and my gardening gloves, a pair of clipper thingies, a hand grabber and a saw!
My garden is quite big and using a strimmer is quite rediculous. I had to stop every few feet as my back was aching and I had to stamp my feet to make sure nothing was crawling up my legs. I thought I’d make an effort so I moved some plant pots out the way and was easily distracted – and scared off – when I saw the woodlous crawling and scurrying away to find cover. I thought I’d stop with the grass and wait until they had departed and found a new home because whenever I cut the grass I hate it when bits of it fling up at me, I always think that there’s part of an insect, some blood or a wing or something splashing into my face. Funniliy enough, always towards the eyes!!
The rose bushes got a bit wild so as I edged towards them I tried to dodge so that the branches wouldn’t go in my hair, didn’t want anything crawling in it.
Half way through the gardening I thought I’d pop to B&Q to see if they had any mesh to replace our garden fence. I couldn’t find B&Q so ended up in No Frills. Just before I left I measured the area where we want the fence and I estimated roughly 36ft. When I got to No Frills I checked out the mesh and had to use the converter on my phone to convert the measurements to feet. There wasn’t much stock down No Frills and nothing that caught my fancy so am hoping to go to B&Q tomorrow sometime. The tallest bit of mesh they had went up to my knees and I thought well that’s no good – it’s not going to stop a dog, is it?
When I got back home I had a quick drink then tackled the garden again. Finished off the grass and moved onto the weeds and stingys etc. Putting on my gardening gloves I edged towards one of our bushes, examined the stingys and weeds and pulled away. Using all my strength I managed to yank some of the bastards out but others were so stubborn it wasn’t going to happen. Oh the colourful words I used!!! So I grabbed the clipper thingies and knelt down to try and find the roots. My heart was racing – seriously!! I honestly thought a spider was going to jump out infront of my face and if that happened I’d be on the floor with a heart attack. I managed to clip away the stingies and weeds with a lot of the bushes but there was one weed that wasn’t going to go. I tried with the clippers but couldn’t snip it so I went and got my dads saw and sawed the thing in half. I saw a look of horror on my dads face as I handled the saw I don’t think he knew what I was going to do with it!
My hair is a bit long but the front of it is shorter so I tied my hair back and put on a headband to keep the front part back. As I was knealing over the weeds I saw something black fall across my head and I fell into a huge panic. I dropped the rake (thankfully didn’t land in my foot) and run my hands through my hair – forgetting I was wearing the gloves. This made me panic even more, imagine all the tiny flies, grass and general shite on them things!! So I fling them off and ran hands through hair onto to realise it was that – my hair!! My hair had come away from the headband and was covering my face. I felt a huge sense of relief.
When I was tidying up the garden I raked all the weeds down the garden path. As I was dragging some of the stingies kept catching onto the bushes as if to say “please don’t bin me!! I’m sorry please don’t bin me!!!” but I hated the buggers and just yanked at them, bloody things.
The garden does look a lot better now but I intend to work on it again tomorrow. I need to get some mesh sometime and maybe, just maybe, put some more plants out there but that was enough work for one day.