My new gloves have gone missing as I might have said. I wondered whether our rescue dog had taken them but I think it was one of our night time visitors. It was probably a fox that pulled them off the place I had left them during the dark.

I’ve bought some more gauntlets and filled a few trugs with spiky brambles. The brambles in the garden are monstrously huge and tough, but I’ve removed some of the worst ones by the greenhouse. Said greenhouse is not intact and is entwined with bindweed as well as brambles.

I have not been in a clear mind space or have felt like gardening as much as I have in the past. I had to stop my HRT treatment and I am realising my health has been affected by the patches I have laterally been using. I spoke to a new GP on Tuesday and she told me to not take any treatment for two months and reassess the situation.

However the time I spent gardening this morning has given me a bit of a positive feeling about the situation and I am feeling like it has given back my impetus to reassess the garden and the jobs I could do easily before the winter starts to stop any work and I can’t stay out for too long due to cold or rain.

I have bulbs to plant!