Not my favourite garden month but we have some lovely snowdrops… I’ve generally made some kind of snowdrop pilgrimage to see the first signs of spring, but it’s always a good idea to sweep round the garden first. My years of cheap buys in my local budget stores have seen me pick up and plant loads over the last few years and I love that despite the will of our rescue to dig things up, he’s managed to avoid pulling up the ones I caught just now.

I’m also feeling gratitude, despite getting notified by electronic payslip of being paid zero, I have a job. I have to find some inner meditative state to be able to express my gratitude for things, even if they weren’t the things I wanted perhaps I will discover that I needed them.

Halfterm has been and gone with a few escapades but the house is empty today for the first time in ages. We got rid of a lot of rubbish with several trips to the tip. It’s made me realise that if you time it right, you can slip in and out relatively quickly as long as you can work out which skips are not full. My daughter has helped with that as she was desperate to dispose of the rubbish she had filled those bags with, from her teeny tiny room.