So far mostly so good with this staying at home arrangement. The kids have been getting on surprisingly well and though work is a challenge we have spent so much more time in the garden. The pond is dug, the new bed which has been created out of the spoils from the pond is finished and we have tidied up.
The plan for the corner with the pond is to make it wild. We will sew meadow rattle in the autumn as this should take nutrients from the grass reducing the lawn in the area and creating, eventually, a small meadow around the pond.
We have a plan, a good one and then I had a text. Hi Gemma, would you like our trampoline? This is a problem for me. To me things in a garden must be beautiful and functional. A trampoline is neither but the kids are at home for what is reportedly going to be an eternity and a trampoline would come in handy. So at 13:30 today Will dived over the fence and began posting metal rods, a huge net and eventually the trampoline. It is MASSIVE, 12 foot to be precise and the only place it will fit is the beautiful wild corner. I was not that impressed it’s not beautiful at all but then came the kids. They bounced, they danced, they sang, they laid and looked at the early evening moon and they laughed a lot. Damn it.
So the trampoline will be staying, where exactly I am not sure, I think today’s isolation time will be mainly spent hauling a massive trampoline around the garden and laughing lots of laughing!
Rewilding my family 