The garden &c.

View from the garden

Bryn Teg has a large, steeply-sloping garden, with magnificent views. There are lots of steps, some of them quite old; please take care.

General

Please keep the gate shut, to prevent sheep getting into the garden.

If you are in Bryn Teg during a spell of dry weather, it would be appreciated if you watered the tubs - use water from the rain water butt by the end of the cottage. there is a watering can in the adjacent stone lean-to.

There are some useful things - garden chairs &c. - in the shed (Tim: please could we have one of the photos!) at the top of the garden. The drying racks for wet clothes are also kept in here.

The soil on either side of the slate chipping path outside the upper back door has just (6/8/06) been sown with grass seed. Please don't walk on it for the next few weeks and hopefully there should be a nice grassy picnicking bank by next summer! Thankyou.

Eating out of doors and barbecuing

The paved area outside the back door is an OK place for out-of-doors eating. The big orange cushions from the smaller lounge bring the wooden bench up to something like the right height; the cushions on the futon in the twin bedroom are useful for the plastic chairs.

For the moment, the most convenient place to barbecue is on the sleepers to the left of the back door. Use the stones which are there to keep hot barbecues from damaging the sleepers. There are barbecue tools in the drawer in the scullery.

Midges

Midges can be a nuisance when sitting or working in the garden, though not on the same scale as in Scotland. There are candles, aromatherapy oils, repellent &c. which might help in the downstairs toilet.

Rubbish

The wheelie bin lives at the junction of the lane and the Bryn Teg track. Collection day is Wednesday so, if you are in Bryn Teg on Tuesday, please take the bin down to the bottom of the hill and put it by the side of the road. If you are here on Wednesday, then please bring it back up again.

Paper, cans and glass can be recycled locally - there are skips for this in the station car park. We recycle plastic bottles &c. by putting them in a box in the glass lean-to and taking it back to Manchester when it is full.

Composting

We would be pleased if you composted vegetable waste. The black tub by the sink in the kitchen can be used to collect scraps to be taken to the compost bin on the right-hand side of the garden, near the top.