My goodness me!!

Where has the time gone?

Here we are already in August and the year

is two thirds through.

August always feels like the turning point of the year.

We have had spring and summer is well in progress

and autumn is fast approaching..

that only leaves winter before we start

all over again!!

So far, so good this summer.

I have spent some hours in the garden

this morning, tidying up the borders.

I am useless with straggly plants.

Once they cease to look pretty they have to go!

And the ones that have refused to grow this year too.

I ripped out the snail-ridden Geraniums and other

bedding plants that are too pathetic to admire.

I snipped the box hedge into shape.

I added the manured-soil in the last sack I had stashed.

I picked all the dead-heads off and trimmed back the 

Lavenders.

I got my hands dirty and it felt satisfying.

The front garden still needs attention.

There are weeds thriving everywhere I look

and some major cutting back in the cards.

It's just that it is too much for my knee still...

too heavy a job, so I keep putting it off.

This week though . . . .have to do it!

What else? 

Currently preoccupied with worrying about a job.

The website for work is terrible.

It either works at snails pace or not at all.

You ring up and they tell you to use the digital site.

You try to but it fails, time and time again.

You are forced to go to the Centre but can only go on

Tuesday afternoon for the drop-in service.

I hate it I really do.

But I will be unemployed as far as I can tell, 

by the end of this month and then I will have 

no income - which will lead to no anything else ultimately

and that is what scares me rigid.

So gardening, internetting, reading, sleeping..

all vicarious activities designed to help my stress levels

calm down!!!!

Is it working?

Not a lot!!!

Sue xx