WHEN Mike Foster heard that Alan Titchmarsh was due to visit Worcestershire, he finally thought his luck was in.

The City MP - or, more to the point, his good wife - had known for some time that his garden was in need of a spruce up.

And this week he arrived home to discover a huge delivery of gravel, sand and bricks had taken place.

He put two and two together and presumed he'd been set up.

Mr Titchmarsh and his Ground Force team were going to give his garden a revamp and make him famous on television...

But he had most definitely got his sums wrong.

Ground Force had other plans, and so did Mike's wife.

It was definitely his turn to do the gardening.

Of course, the General Election announcement means Mike will be able to dodge the task for a few more weeks.

But, when his Labour colleagues are relaxing on Friday, June 8, after a hard-fought campaign, he'll have no such luxury.

After standing on hundreds of doorsteps, he'll be standing outside his own house - clutching a spade!