Well here I am on the brink of erecting a greenhouse. Over the summer, gardening sort of crept up on me. It started off as an exercise to reseed the lawn, but as soon as I'd poisoned all the grass and reduced it to mud, suddenly it became a good thing to dig out all the flowerbeds too, and transplant all the good plants to different places, and erect an arbor, and plan out some vegetable patches, and and and etc. It was all too easy. I seem to have a flair for this sort of thing too - I'm as surprised as anyone about that.

The greenhouse is about the last thing I'm going to do this year - I'll just erect it and set it up ready for next year's growing season. I've enlisted some help for the erection process as well. I've done a lot of crazy things on my own but I'm not about to start fiddling around with sheets of glass without someone being on standby to call the ambulance should I accidentally decapitate myself. Ooh yes, I saw The Omen. I saw that poor priest guy get his head lopped off by a sheet of glass sliding off a lorry. Okay, I haven't pissed off the Antichrist recently and its going to be harder to be in the position to get my head lopped off whilst glazing a 4x8 foot greenhouse with horticultural glass...but none the less it doesn't do to take chances does it? Especially as it was only last week I had to prove I was over 21 to buy a lawnmower, which was equally bizarre.

Anyway my helper is due here any minute now so I have to go. Wish me luck...

(also see my Greenhouse adventure photoalbum)