Sunday is good

Have been doing good work today--stuff that really needed doing. Have fixed the fence all around the raised garden. Too many children finding their way unattended into backyard pools. They would have to climb a four-foot wall before being able to find way through broken fence, but it needed fixing, and now it's done. Not the prettiest job ever, but one day the whole fence--and possibly the retaining wall--will need completely replacing, so this is one of the times when "OK for now" will do. Sometimes I demand perfect. This is not one of them.

Also been playing in mud. The so-called "dry well" for the grey-water-from-the=washing-machine type of mud. It's not a dry well at all, it's the end of a pipe that goes nowhere. Plan is either to have someone dig and install a real dry well (bit daft seeing as the water table is at best a foot below the surface), or build and plant a grey-water wetland. That idea appeals much more: you plant plants that naturally love wet conditions and which filter and clean the water. Have to do more research. Need a solution pretty rapidly, before the winter sets in. I wonder how often the previous owners did laundry?