over grown, home grown.

hello there me again the ninja (Matt). weather is awesome hear in north Devon, so if your reading this and i use to work near you and the weather is poo out side, ha ha ha ha ha. 

any way gloating over, we have the oddest wwoofing blog going, as we have not actually started yet were still working in Sophie's parents house and garden. we will be leaving for our first wwoofing house soon i just forget the dates. Sophie's parents garden its one hell of a wilderness, some days it seams like i shall never tame it ( i wont there is too much for just me) but ill keep trying, hacking meter after meter in to terrace after terrace, i have found seven so far and I'm not half way up the garden!!!!!! to give you some idea of scale, the forth terrace higher than our bed room and were in the attic. it is hard to explain how steep this garden is some days. the house is cut it to a old quarry behind the house is a sheet slate wall higher than the house, its quite impressive really, it has been reclaimed by the wild so the local birds nest all along the wall,  with out worry of predators. the garden is very hard work most days i cannot wait to wwoof in a garden with a tamed flat section ha ha .

 

above is a picture of the house in the woods. 

hear are some home grown Gooseberries, red currants, black currants, raspberries we "found" in the garden. the gooseberries were hidden in a mess of knot weed that almost faced the wrath of a brush cutter. this fruit was made in to yummy jam that is now in my tummy so no you cant have any.

while we were bored one day we went for a bike ride, hear is proof that Sophie can ride a bike, she still claims she cannot turn corners. Sophie's brother Carey helped her with some confidence games to help her ride more confidently, which helped. 

on my last blog i told you about the untamed terrace hear is some photos. 

i have now found the boundary wall 2 meters further to the right of this photo. 

hear we have a rare photo of the lesser spotted smudge (sopeus longestmonkeyestoedst ornatus) in less educated times this fine specimen would have been shot, bagged, stuffed and mounted above a fire place to make delightfull after dinner conversation.

this is our next challenge its a raspberry patch gone wild 

well i hope the next blog i write is about wwoofing in another place i could keep working hear for months/years trying to tame it but i would like to explore other places 

hope you enjoyed reading this and if you were looking for a little joke

"if ignorance is bliss the government must be in a constant state of orgasm"

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