Hello this is early one morning about six o'clock or something, birds are all singing it's quite a nice don't chorus I just thought I would give you a quick tour of me gardens and as I tidy the doubly of the day for me daughters birthday this is coming out the house bit of decking going up to me workshop up there tatty old van poly tunnel where I grow all the quite a plants big aquarium outside that I haven't found home for yet this is my so called vegetable garden with no vegetables in at the minute busy doing other things they are last summer last year's vegetables there but it's basically a terrorist garden on different levels plenty of last year's potatoes in there as well not the world's greatest gardener it's not as far as vegetables go not too bad at landscaping this is the main part of the garden reasonable quality lawn there it's not too level now but it's not too bad it's green you know reasonable size as well good for playing football play plenty football with me son and my daughter when she can muster the energy more decking I put this in or man must be our 10 years ago now still pretty much as good as the day it was put down hot tub which is knackered at the minute I left it switched off with a little bit of water in over winter and I think the heat is knackered the ice must have expanded and knack the dosoming keeps tripping out I need to fix that behind me is the dam wall I've got a big pond behind there which you'll see in a minute and this is a big clay bank which I've planted up with aces and where I conifer and all sorts of things it's quite a nice contorted hazel behind me no idea what sort of aces they are I know the little mushroomy things are palmate them die second but God knows what they're the type of hard just buy them because they look nice you know this is kind of finished with a dry stone wall with vertical cappin stones which I haven't cemented on yet but it looks the part you know so we'll go up the steps actually no we'll not go up the steps we'll go around this way now what is going to make this lawn but I actually run out of turf so I decided just to sew it with the wild flower seed that I got from the garden centre and just could path through it so there's all sorts of wild flowers come up in here throughout the year and then at the end of the year I just trash it down with a strimmer and just kind of scatter all the seeds around and it's grown pretty well this is my mega tree it's I don't know 100 foot high maybe maybe it's more it's probably one of the biggest ones in the whole valley and it's only about 60 70 year old those marks on it all those black stains are from screws going into it I screwed in some of those climbing holds so that the kids could use the tree as a climbing wall but unfortunately as the tree grew the screws snapped off and I had to take it down so all the screws are still in the tree which probably just didn't do the trees well the good I just hope it doesn't fall because it's it's more or less leaning towards the house it's like living under the sword of damacles you know get that off man right go up the steps literally just put gravel on these put the wards the pond I put the pond in about oh I don't know 10 or 11 years ago it's got fishing platforms on it in various places not that I really ever used it for fishing that's a little boat house with a little board in a little plastic boat which is at the minute full of water and this pond's approximately 30 meters long by about 25 26 meters wide spring fed and clear lined surrounded by woodland which is full of life and up here is a log cabin which I bought off some dude I did a job for just before Christmas it was about 160 quid or something basically just wanted rid of it so I thought I would put it on stilts and sit it on decking I'll just finish the deck in a few days ago so we'll go up and have a look at that that's a big plastic dinosaur that I bought off some fellow it's all sectional comes to comes to bits like a like a 3D jigsaw actually before we'll go up and see the deck and I'll show you the playground that I made there's a sand pit probably is full of cat crap because the kids never put the blooming top on so that never gets used there's some monkey bars there I made them when in fact I made all of this just split level playhouse there it's all just made out of waste wood that we've had in the in the shop that's a little underground house that I made and sometimes I'll fire this down here I put a zip wire up so the kids go up here to the platform jump on the zip wire and slide all the way down here and that big cushion thing stops them slamming into the tree it does hurt quite a lot when you hit the tree if there's no cushion there as when I was testing it I actually dropped the bottom end of this about two foot and WD40 the whole lot I lubricated it I went slamming it at the tree and broke my ribs and sternum which wasn't a good look hurt mightily so these are the steps and decking that I've literally just put in a couple of days ago leading up to the summer house stroke log cabin I have to know it'll seat that I made about 15 or 20 years ago hasn't rotted away yet I wouldn't like to sit on it if I was over 20 stone though it might collapse I put the deck in smooth side up so that it's easy to clean we're surrounded by pine trees and I'm sick of trying to scrape the pine needles out of the ridge decking very difficult to clean you notice this front part of the handrail is actually set a bit lower this is because when you sit down you can see over the top of it see into the pond so you get quite a good view off the top of here see right down to the house the garden you know you can watch the kids in the garden make sure they're safe while you're up in the log cabin having a barbecue or whatever this is the log cabin the white wood there and that's new bits that we had to put on there they only knew bits were to put on all the rest of it was still sound I haven't put a proper roof on yet and it needs a paint so at the minute it's just got visculean which is like a cheap crappy plastic on it keeps the water out until I can afford to get felt shingles to put on that leads out to the fields where we'll go for walks down to the river and so on so that's about it really it's a reasonable size garden full of wildlife which is nice whoops daisy so it's taken me quite a few years in my spare time to make it because I that when we first moved in there was no garden at all no pond no anything really just weeds and muckum horrendous waste so it's been a bit of a labour of love but it's still a long way off being finished yet thanks for watching