In 2008 my wife and I bought a little cottage on a large block of land in Sydney’s far south. We had dreams of a great garden in which our daughter Rhiannon could play to her heart’s content. We bought a wooden play centre with swings and a slippery dip. We bought a trampoline.<\/p>\n
But we neglected to consider a few facts about ourselves. The biggest of these was that neither of us is a gardener. I had lived in units\/apartments for 40 out of my (then) 44 years of life. And those 4 years had been in my childhood. I had no idea how a garden worked, let alone a massive monstrosity of a garden. Nor did I have any inclination to learn. Somehow I thought that it would come naturally because my paternal grandfather had been a gardener and many generations ago I had farmers among my ancestors. Yep – I’m a moron.<\/p>\n
Until I lost my job I did manage to keep the garden kind of neat-ish (imagine a very big “ish” on the end of that “neat”). For a few years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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