Our garden is emerging from what in today's jargon must be a brown field site. I wandered round it in today's evening sunshine and reflected on our plans for the gardens, commissioned conscientiously at an expense we could ill afford and rejected out of hand by the planners. They even threatened criminal prosecution.
Well, basking in the sunshine after a day of miserable weather is the mess we have made of it.
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It is barely spring and the garden will soon burst into life and colour, ready for the Settle Open Gardens weekend later in the year.
EPISODE 3. THE RESTORATION MAN: BEST BUILDS: TOWERS
ABOUT THIS PROGRAMME
George Clarke looks back at four of the most dramatic tower conversions from the show. A pair of railway enthusiasts took on a derelict water tower on the Settle to Carlisle line, while a couple battled illness to turn a Georgian windmill into a family home. There's also another chance to see how a 17th-century fortified structure in Scotland and a Grade II-listed water tower near Congleton in Cheshire were transformed.
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The other three cameras will be at Settle, Appleby and Kirkby Stephen stations.
This s a joint enterprise between the Friends of the Settle-Carlisle Line and Railcam.uk
