More from the green Green who's surely and steadily greening nicely.

It's all beginning! And a very good beginning too. Today my patio garden has begun to be transformed. By teatime it'd changed beyond recognition although looks rather nude as there aren't any plants, veggies or flowers planted yet.

I owe this huge positive step to a man who advertised on Freecycle who had/has apparently around 30 tonnes of soil going spare. He also has a trailer and was able to get two guys who work for him to bring round 2 huge trailer loads already, with the third following tomorrow morning, mainly being top soil.

On top of that one of my Edinburgh friends, Sally and her daughter Katie came over for the day. It was good to see them and Katie who is 11 and extremely practical put together my new outdoor storage shed type of thing. She was most impressive and has done a great job. This half height shed thingy is going to house all my recycling bins and hopefully make things much easier for all the carers/Pas who work for me.

The raised flower bed housing the lilac is now full of incredibly good and healthy soil. The above pic is the before pic. The four 350 litre containers I bought from a company 'down south' are now almost full and just waiting just for top soil. Here's a pic of LittleBoo in one of the then unfilled containers. But they're just the right height for a wheelchair user.

Now all I need is the compost John's promised me, someone to connect my water butt, my compost bin arriving and I can start planting!!!!! How exciting is that for this green Green - yet another step towards becoming greener and working towards some kind of self sufficiency. Hopefully I'll be harvesting my first veggies in the summer time, what a great feeling that will be!