The Big August Tidy Up

Today, I've helped my husband prune the grape vine so that any slight glimmer of sun can get at the grapes. The old wood gets used for kindling for our log fire in winter. I read that fig wood can be burned too as long as it is dried well. I don't know whether fig sap is supposed to be an irritant but it sure made me itch. My parents bought us a gas barbecue a few years ago and husband managed to break it. We spent about an hour disassembling it and it will go to the scrap merchants. I've left an ant trap by the fig tree, pulled up a load of mint and disassembled an old cast iron barrel BBQ which was rusting. The To Do list runs to two pages so must crack on ..