KCNQ2Haiku Gardening Attempt!

Sharp secateurs, sharp
thorns, ineffectual gloves.
Not meeting the cut!

The KCNQ2Haikus are not natural gardeners!  We pay someone to mow the lawn once a fortnight and that is about it.  Every once in a while we realise the ivy has climbed the walls and is nearly in the roof, so we don gloves and spider proof collars and rip it all down.  Today was one of those days.  Ivy had climbed up to the gutter of Mr KCNQ2Haiku's office, so although you can't tell from this photo (which still looks a total mess!) we tidied up a lot!  There were so many brambles and spiky plants mixed in with the ivy and creating a sort of Weed Soup.  What you can see in the photo is our lovely magnolia on the left and now a little bit of wall, which previously had been subsumed in the aforementioned soup.  This all felt very productive and worthy.  Ben tried to help but really just wanted to see if we'd cave and let him hold the secateurs (No) and Leo had the time of his life running around spreading little bits of bramble about and chewing the broom.  A win, you'd think??  Except now there's less foliage directly out of the back window, so Leo has been barking incessantly at anything he can see through next door's hedge :-/ I think I need a screen.  Sigh.  Maybe B&Q could sell me a Weed Soup Screen??  That might be something no-one has ever googled before :-D