DAY OUT AT THE GARDEN CENTRE

Today we went to visit the garden centre, in the small village of Bamford which is just over the Snake Pass road near to the Ladybower Reservoir.

WE are planning a new garden, no trees, no plants, no flowers...

just somewhere clean and tidy where we can sit out and look at something that isn't bloody nature.

We live out in the countryside and just a little bit of something in the landscape that isn't nature makes a change...

... and there is the added bonus of NO GARDENING!

As befits a garden centre, this one in Bamford is surrounded by the spectacular countryside of the Peak District National Park.

They do an interesting trade in 'tubs,' these appear to be whisky barrels that have been sawn in half to make planters.

The building in the background is the BAY TREE CAFE where you can get a bite to eat, we had sandwiches and salad, very tasty.

Out here on the moors nature is absolutely everywhere, and so the garden centre sells a lot of concrete artifacts to go along with all the flowers.

We bought some flowers last year, I dug a flower bed and planted the little 'pottings' or whatever you call them and I spent the whole of last spring and summer tending them and watching them grow. Then the autumn came and they all turned into green slime.

My flower bed ended up as the place where the dog went to dig instead of me.