..thanks folks....my garden looks like a bomb site at the moment...with slates and broken trees...Sheba hasn't started on it yet...however she did take out the black underlay for the weeds, with her wee tweezer teeth...lol..thanks for the tip re fabric conditioner...bit warey using some stuff at the mo...as sheba has skin allergies..which we haven't got to the bottom of yet...will defo add some more pics....