gardening talent

Some people have it, others, like me don't, but try to develop it every now and then. My recent idea of shaping the lawn into an ellipse has now come to fruition and although I've got a fair bit of messing around to de weed and de grass the newly extended flowerbeds, it looks really good. Gypsy Tart deserves credit for helping with the digging (that girl really loves digging and smashing things).

It was also incredibly easy to mark the shape out using this guide. I didn't even have to measure anything, I just unhooked the string, found the halfway point and marked with another bit of string. Mr McMuffin helped a bit and within ten minutes I had marked out a perfect ellipse in flour. There is something very satifying about seeing geometry in action and all our maths teachers are right, we should shut up and pay attention because we shall use some of the things they taught us, in the real world.