Ride the train, I'm far from home (David Bowie)

First week back in Nu Zild has been weirder than usual!

Hot hot weather, moving all the furniture back into the house, school camp, driving a car again to work, rehanging pictures, and...um... back to work have all contributed to shock the system.

Amongst all that I also found time to weed my zen garden and plan the sail that will go over my new deck to ART. Yes - that's right - a new deck - splendiferous in extremis it is too!

Here's a picture or three:

Only minor fly in the ointment is a sore right arm/hand sustained in a stupid accident before I went to the UK - hot tip - don't try and stop a big log from rolling away, just let it go! 

Means I'm wearing a brace after getting a dose of cortisone from the doc last week. Makes nailing and digging and general handyperson acts difficult. 

Difficult. Not impossible. So, yeah. We'll see how I go.

Love and peace - Wozza

Sacred days, sacred nights, sacred time (Phil Manzanera)

Presenting zen garden 2 at Rochdene:

What I especially love about this is how much of it comes from recycled sources:

• The chair I made from old fence standards
• The agapanthus were surplus to requirements at Woodford House so I brought them home
• Bricks and gravel was moved from the front of the house where a deck is going
• The fencing on the left was originally on the right (you can see the concrete footing is still there)
• Other bushes were transplanted from elsewhere on the section
• The Buddha's plinth was from an old roller at Red Phoenix Farm
• The picket fencing on the other side of the Buddha was repaired and moved from elsewhere at Rochdene
• The Buddha came from our time in Stratford
• The trellis over the Buddha was also from an area at the front of the house that will be decked at Christmas
• The large rocks came from Red Phoenix Farm
• To build up the area, dirt came from a pile of top soil in the paddock you can see

The only things I actually bought for this project were some alkathene for drainage, some weed matting for under the stones and six hedging plants.

Love and peace - Wozza