Saturday

Okay, guess who has a new gardener?

She lives locally, has a great sense of humour and will be a real asset. I have absolutely no reason to think she'll be unreliable and that would be the only reason to start looking for someone else, so ... we've agreed that she'll put in as much time as she can to get the garden up to scratch before the winter and then it'll be fortnightly maintenance visits. I'm not sure whether she has any formal gardening training but what she does have is a whole lifetime of knowledge and experience, and she's a hard worker - she stayed for two hours and has made a good start on sorting out little problem areas in the garden. I'll do a garden update post one day next week.

After the excitement of yesterday, today will be another quiet day. I'll be speaking to friends at some stage but the rest of the time it's up to me to keep myself amused, so a bit of reading, maybe a film, a few naps, and some sort of musical activity ... I feel the need to play something today.