We christened our new 'Italian Garden' this evening.
As people know we bought a project hosue last year and inevitable project houses come with project gardens. We razed the garden to the ground and had a large area paved and fenced some of it off, planted roses and lavender beds and containers round it and put a suitable table and chairs in the centre.
At lunch time it was too hot and sunny to use, but in the shade of evening, we sat in the cool of our formal Italian garden looking up the side garden to where, at the end, the tower of the parish church is 'framed' by the side walls of our bouse and our neighbour's house and agreeing, that we made the right decision when we pushed ahead with buying this house, despite our doubts and those of others.