Spring is coming ... slowly

Yesterday was a lovely spring day.  Still cold, but the sun shone, and I finally got round to sorting out my garden.  Last year we spent a lot of money on getting our garden finished.  When we first moved into our house four years ago, the garden looked like this:

Halfway through renovations, it looked like this (URRGGGH I REMEMBER IT WELL):

Once it was all done, it looked like this last July:

And it looked like this last August:

However, with the advent of winter, and my course, and being busy and tired and a little bit lazy, it had started to look like this:

I've been saying for months, I'm going to get round to it, I'm going to do some weeding... but I have been so busy and tired.  And lazy.  Anyway, on Tuesday, Amber and I finally got round to it.  OK, I had to pay her.  But it was worth it.  She and I laughed and weeded and weeded and laughed.  The garden still isn't going to look quite as beautiful as last year because I don't have the time and energy and money to spend time on it.  But it looks a lot better than it did last week!