Quite a busy teaching week with the degree students nearing the end of their semester and am now getting ready for their exams and final hand in of design projects. Lots of work ahead in the next six weeks with all this marking to do and all the dissertations to read - just as well I only have two projects on the drawing board at present.

Ooops, my relaxed air is suddenly disrupted as an email arrives out of the blue!

A past client has sold their Arts and Crafts manor house (the one with the restored sunken garden in my photo album) and have bought a Tudor Manor house in the water meadows near Winchester. Grade II listed and planning consents needed for all the alterations, renovations and new extensions etc and of course they need a master landscape plan prepared like yesterday - no small feat as the grounds run to about three hectares! Later receive a pdf file from the surveyors of the overall site plan and then off to the printers tomorrow for multiple copies. First site meeting on Saturday and then onto the drawing board to attempt to fulfill their brief, finalise the masterplan, draw it up, print multiple copies and send it off to the City Council with the client's planning application - all by Monday 2nd June! So here goes....... watch this space for further news - I am sure there will be a knot garden in there somewhere!