Thank you everyone. Needless to say after a whole week of bright sunny weather it's persisting down today so plans for a day in the garden with OH have gone out of the window but we did manage to go and buy some irregular shaped stone slabs to make a new path into the shrubs. The two dogs have trampled a path through my plants so the plan is to make a path we can all use and save them trampling more plants.
Tonight we have dance class and tomorrow we're off to spend a couple of days at the Belgian coast enjoying fresh sea air and seafood. Fingers crossed for decent weather for path laying next weekend.