We visited a local garden centre today, Pacific Nurseries in Streetly which, while perhaps not the cheapest, does provide some quality stuff. Compost and gardening gloves, watering can, begonias and geraniums for borders, some peppers for the greenhouse, and a pyracanthus to replace a shrub at the fromt that died last year.
This evening we've planted most of them. You may recall last year we visited the cafe at HMP Sudbury for an inmate's lasagne, and while we were there, we bought a wooden flower tub, courtesy of the prison workshops. We decided to put this at the front on a gravelled border, and plant it with geraniums. Mrs O's allotted task!
When she had finished, I took a look at it and jokingly said "Hmmm - looks a bit drunkenly lopsided. We'll have to go into lockdown and I'll have to search your bedroom for hooch".
"Yes" replied Mrs O, quite seriously "I simply can't get it to go straight!"
Collapse of all parties into laughter once we realised what she'd said!