Hey Snugs,
I love reading your posts, as you know, and I have to tell you, I've got this picture postcard image of where you live. In my mind's eye you're in one of those wonderful stone or half timber cottages with a thatched roof and the split wood rail fence outside with roses growing over the front entrance---LOL! Am I really, really off base?
Way off base I live in a Victorian terraced house in a market/railway town. I will have to take a photo and email to someone who can post it.
The garden is full of pigeon lofts and blackberry bushes so maybe that is nearer your picture LOL.