I’ve been getting stuff done today! I have been avoiding going to the allotment because it has been completely neglected for at least 6 months and I’ve been dreading seeing how overgrown everything is, but this afternoon I manage to motivate myself to go there and start sorting it out.
I pick a bag of spinach and a several pounds of rhubarb, sort out the bamboo structure that my wife made for the runner beans to grow up, dig up the cabbage and broccoli plants that have long since gone to seed, dig over one of the vegetable beds and do a little weeding. It tires me out, but I’m really pleased that I’ve managed to do something. I drop in on our neighbours on my way back home for a much needed cup of tea, and give them half of the rhubarb, which they are very pleased with.
When I get back home I cook the rest of the rhubarb, prepare some vegetables, stick a ready meal in the oven for our dinner, and light the fire before my wife gets home from work. I feel that I have achieved something (for a change).