Posted by Melanie Phillips under All Work in Progress
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I was supposed to blog Nicks portrait a few days ago but I am a little behind! Things have been very busy in the studio these last few days, I have been working a lot on the websites and so the photos of his new horse portrait have been piling up ready to be blogged! Nick started this portrait last week and its coming along nicely. Its for a birthday gift in October and hopefully it will be finished in the next few days so I will have a final photo or scan soon. The background is still wet at the moment so it cant go in the scanner but hopefully in a few days it will be dry enough.
Toms Training
Toms training went well on Saturday, I think he was slightly calmer and he did well with his walk on Friday with Meg his collie friend. He didn’t bark as much, so its just going to take time and effort to give him the confidence he needs
Our new Woodland Garden.
We are both pretty excited at the moment as we have bought an area of woodland and garden just below and to the side of our cottage garden and its finally ours! Its been a long time coming, we started the process in June and so to now be able to go into the new land is fantastic. Tom is having fun running around to his hearts content and the chickens are loving it too. The whole area has not been looked after for many years and so we are working a lot to clear it. Eventually we want it to be a woodland garden with paths and natural flowers along with a new vegetable garden just below our original garden. The long term plan is to have a log cabin retreat there too but that will all come in time.
I didn’t grow any vegetables this year as I knew my original plot would be moving, so I have done a lot of work to prepare ground for new raised beds. It will all look a lot better when its naturalized in the spring and I cant wait to grow veg again next year. We will hopefully add some photos for the website soon, I will have to do a diary of photos from when its all over grown and as it develops. Nick is actually having a bonfire out there as we speak and I’m off to see what he’s getting up to!
