Gated Community

Earlier in the year, we started work to sort out the garden, primarily by splitting it in two, and making one half “dog-friendly” while letting the other half end up with decent grass and “human-friendly”. It’s been a fairly hefty process, involving two tons of gravel for the dog-friendly half (it’s easier to pick the dog-shite off gravel than it is in grass), a skip for removing all the turf from that half, putting in fencing to divide it all up, and some other stuff.

Over the summer we kind of took a break from it, but while we’re away next week we’ve got a friend who’s going to finish things off – stuff like putting in a new gate within the fence, which’ll finish off the divider between grass and gravel. He’s also going to do some other odds and sods – finishing off edging the flower beds with railway sleepers, that kind of thing.

Anyway, yesterday it suddenly occurred to us that with all this happening, and with us being away as of tomorrow, we’d really best buy the gate that’s going to be fitted. And of course then get a 6′ by 3′ iron gate home. In a Ford Focus.

We managed it – pure comedy, and some creative organisation/positioning, and lo, we now have a gate.