2024 - What I did today

P is slowly attempting to sand down and paint the wooden slatted fence between us and next door which we look out upon from the kitchen sink. It happens to be nextdoor's fence but her husband passed away a couple of years ago and there's no way she's going to attempt to do any upkeep of the fence. As P has recently refurbished our gateway attached to said fence he was planning to paint the fence to match. At one end of the say 12' fence is (was) a rampant winter jasmine taking over say 3-4' of the fence and growing up neighbour's wall high enough to be creeping into her fascias. The plan was to cut back the jasmine away from the areas to be painted to give P room to work. Having asked neighbour lady for permission, she says cut it down as far as she's concerned. So a pleasant day was had by the three of us, cutting, trimming and filling up the green bins with jasmine, which is now 3ft tall and rather bare. It'll recover, I've found you can't kill winter jasmine, it's very resilient.