Pergola Dreams

Well, the pergola is up and has been decorated with hanging baskets and various other bits and pieces - isn't it fab? It's been like something off Ground Force except my dad looks nothing like Tommy Walsh. It completely transforms the back of the house and frames the view of the flower bed as I sit on the settee looking out of the patio doors.

We even found some canvas to put on top of it to give a bit of shade this afternoon and it was just like the episode of Robinson Crusoe where he builds the bit at the front of his cave and puts a bit of sail up to shelter it. I loved that series, and that episode in particular, and always harboured a secret desire to live in a cave like that. It really upset me when the cave got attacked later in the series and the shelter destroyed by the cannibals.

Right, I'd better go and water those plants ...