Gardening and general clean up..

This weekend with much better weather proved to be a great excuse to do a spot of gardening. We have spent two days cutting back very overgrown and neglected shrubs and brambles that were pretending they were trees! It was incredible the hold they had over some of the trees, and very tricky to remove - Richard and I have the scratches and irritations to prove it!
What was amazing was the space that all this was hiding, now we have a much better idea of the size of the driveway entrance and we now have a lovely corner where we think we'll plant our first Maple Tree. We are looking at Acer Griseum (The Paper Bark Maple) which has gorgeous autumn colour and striking bark. There are a couple of pics at the end of this blog of the Maple and of the area cleared and view looking up the drive towards the house (well it'll be there eventually!!!!) note the bonfire - a very successful burn up today!
We are off to look at a house tomorrow built by SIPS ECO UK http://www.sipsecopanels.co.uk/
It won't be the kind of house we are building but it will be constructed the same, we are yet to appoint our chosen building company and we are still trying to sort out ground works.

In the meantime we went to Ikea last week to have our kitchen designed - it was stressful (for me only when I found the kitchen windows interfered with my run of units and yes I did have a stroppy moment and said "well you'll just have to move the window!") we struggled with their computer programme but once Matt the manager of kitchens at Ikea Wednesbury took over .. He was brill! We haven''t decided on an Ikea kitchen but we are really impressed with what they have to offer... The pics at the end of the blog are similar to the kind of kitchen look we are after..
Well I'll be back with more progress as soon as there is any!
Bye for now