Lovely day spent tidying up in the garden yesterday, but despite three hours of solid work and four bin bags full of leaves and weeds - I’m slightly gutted that the pictures don’t show more of a difference.

The big green thing in the foreground of the first picture was particularly nasty. It popped up in spring and, hoping it might be an exquisite self-seeded flower (I’m optimistic like that), I left it to its own devices. It was clear months ago that that had been a mistake, but I hadn’t managed to get out there with a spade, and boy did I regret it yesterday! It took a good half hour of back-breaking digging and heaving to get the blighter out. Lesson learnt!

Natasha, fair manager