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<p>My Australian friends, Ian and Sue, visited for a few days this month. Helène and I wanted to give them an interesting time so we took them to Yorkshire Sculpture Park as well as a tour of Lincoln city and the Humber Bridge.</p>
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<p>A walk across the Humber Bridge is always pleasurable and the weather was very kind to us. </p>
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<p>We also spent some time sitting in the garden and appreciating the good weather.</p>
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<p>The raised bed behind Helène is at it's best and I've never seen it so full of colour. I think my gardening skills must be improving - about time.</p>
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<p>We spent a weekend helping Helène's daughters with clearing the garden of their newly acquired house.</p>
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<p>The garden has been allowed to go wild so it required a lot of cutting back. Helène spent most of Sunday back and forth to the recycling centre with bags and bags of green "stuff".</p>
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<p>We also knocked down an old garden shed which had been absorbed into the undergrowth. I took the chainsaw to a row of Holly hedge which was at risk of knocking down the neighbours fence. </p>
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<p>It was an exhausting but very satisfying weekend.</p>
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