40 days and 40 nights
Posted on Monday 7th July 2008
When we moved into our current house, we knew the garden was under development and in dilapidated state. To give Neil, our landlord, credit he had sought planning permission to landscape the backyard, had plans for a carport drawn up, and retained contractors to do the work. In typical petty public service bureaucracy, we are still living with a wilderness and waiting for the applications to be processed
We have been making do with this suboptimal yard for 4 months now and finally progress is on the horizon. The planning permission application has been approved and hopefully in the next month or so, we should witness a transformation. In the meantime I felt there was little point in putting a lot of time and effort into maintenance, which has contributed to the overgrowth you can see above. Perhaps before work starts we should invite David Attenborough to examine the microcosm that has sprung up in the absence of human intervention!
