SRS - congrats on the planning scheme! Everyone seems to want a house with a garden but developers are only interested in getting as many tiny house boxes into as small an area as possible.

The scout hall I want to buy already has a 3/4 bed house attached to it, but developers want to make the hall into 2 more houses and 3 garage/sheds into another 2 houses.

I want to turn it into a sewing business with cheap B&B on the side.... anyone got a spare £2million I could have please?

There's a big concrete playground that has planning permission for a communal garden for these houses. I think that's the only thing I'd keep the same, dig up the concrete and turn it into a fragrant garden.

Spring has finally given way to summer, I have 15 different flowers out, including an extremely late crocus (planted in March because I forgot to do it in October) and a very early Californian poppy.

And it was even warm enough to sit out there last night.

Mind you, we have greenfly here in plague proportions.

LTS