About the site owner

Greetings, according to WordPress people like to know something about the person operating the site. Fair enough – I’m David Castle married to Leslie (her parents chose the Scottish use of the boys name) – we have been married for 37 years come October 2009. We live in the fens of Lincolnshire. When we moved here our garden was a meadow. Nothing but grass and weeds, here’s how it looks today. All our own work, we have two ponds both hand dug into solid clay and both are 5 feet deep, the one at the bottom of the garden is 25′ x 25′ and took us a whole summer to dig. It is now a duck pond – complete with resident mallards, toads, frogs, newts, over 100 fish and bloody water beetles that eat fish! The smaller pond has over 1000 tadpoles (29/05/09) and 50 fish. We get all sorts of wildlife, foxes, pheasants, moorhens,rabbits, hares,hedgehogs etc. Dragonflies and butterflies in droves. The pergola was built by us, well, Leslie did the bricklaying (yes really!) I did the carrying. It’s a great place to relax, there’s even an in house barbie.
This year we are growing all our own veg, potatoes, sweetcorn,runnerbeans,tomatoes,onions,lettuce,carrots etc etc. The trees are sufficient to keep us in firewood – twisted willows grow fast. I used to work as a forrester, so I have a chainsaw and a massive axe. Because early 2009 was so cold we bought in 4 tons of ringed oak – I did them with the good old axe.
Inside the cottage it’s oak beamed with a old fashioned Rayburn and log fires – great at Christmas. It’s pretty bleak during winter, but we have good neighbours so we all cooperate. We are surrounded by fields, just four cottages and a couple of farms. Pretty cool!
Here’s the garden taken from the sun roof over my office. I have 6 guitars in there!

The Garden

The Pergy Built by Leslie