A place to call our own

On Friday we took possession of Sunnyside. We have been busy over the weekend cleaning and emptying the house of junk, and we haven't even finished the downstairs. It's amazing how much dirt a few spiders can make in the space of five years.

Whilst Mum and I tackled the kitchen and Pops went in search of a wine cellar (which sadly didn't materialise), the Bid and the But spend Saturday afternoon transforming an overgrown patch of the vegetable garden into this -
five beautiful rows of potatoes and a few shallots.

Our neighbours gave us this old aerial photograph showing the garden in it's

prime (complete with busy gardener to the far right of the garden). This is a lot to live up to - I think we might lay a bit more of it to lawn!