Every time I have thought about this or talked about this it has been primarily in concern to my pregnancy, and when we were getting ready to move it was the thing that I was focusing on; pointing out to anyone who was holding up the process that I was only getting more and more pregnant as the time went on, and the last thing I wanted was to be moving house at a time when there was a risk of the stress putting me into labour, or that it was going to happen and I would be in the hospital and my partner would have to handle the move on his own.
It was definitely something that was a big concern, and rightly so because it really got in my way for things I was able to do on the move day and also the things I have been able to do since, but it's not just that I was thirty odd weeks pregnant, it was partly the way that the house had been left - with many spiders and many, many cobwebs, so there was a lot of cleaning to do before we could even think about putting anything away - but also because the state that the gardens were left in.
Every time this comes up, people tell me that the gardens are something that can be ignored for now and the most important thing is the house and whilst it's true to some extent, it's also evident that they have been ignored for a long time anyway, or the level of effort needed was a lot higher than the level of effort that they got. It's partly where plants have gone out of control, or where the trees just haven't been pruned so they are damaged in places and wild in others and things like ivy have been left to run rampant and trying to now tame them is difficult, and it's the wrong time to be sorting it out because of the pregnancy, but also the start of winter is not the best time to be trying to get out and do anything with the garden and it's not the best time to be trying to sort out all of the garden waste as well. I know there are a few things about gardening where it's like, No Mow May or thinking about baby bunny season and not raking leaves because of nesting hedgehogs, but because of the sheer amount of garden waste there is in the garden we need to do something with it and leaving it to rot in place isn't really an option. We're also in one of those councils that make you pay a suplement for garden waste collections and they're only just starting to do a food waste collection in the new year. Naturally, I'm frustrated by this, but I'm just trying to get what I can do done and accept the fact that it's not going to be perfect.
We've been able to look back into an archive to see what the gardens used to look like, and we have our own ideas as well, of course, of what we want to do with them, but there is quite a big gap between where they are now and where we want them to be.
Like with a lot of things though, I know that part of the joy of it all is going to be the journey of getting it to the point that I want it to be at, rather than just walking into something that is perfect from the first minute, and I'm looking forward to doing this with my son in tow, getting to teach him about it and get him involved in it all as well.
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