Last November my family moved into a brand new house with an L shaped, sloping piece of mud for a garden.

I was finally persuaded by my grandson (in the pictures) to give him somewhere to play football.

So, as I originally wrote this review, there were builders, merchants' lorries arriving with slabs, timber and tons of sand & cement. And no, I had no intention of trying to do the job myself, a bunch of guys were arriving in the morning to transform the "mudscape".

The idea of the Geoff Hamilton software was to get an idea of what we could do with a small, split level garden. After a few hours ' work I had pictures & plans for a few alternatives. At the end of the day, I took my suppliers' advice, but the final scheme is at least a collection of ideas which I would never have managed without being able to see what was being suggested.

Then, having learned how to create houses, roads and what have you, I got to enjoy CAD design and carried on creating the whole estate.