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Ah, I just love those industrious days; those days were you need to sit back, relax and gather your concentration to enumerate everything you’ve done.

I had taken Monday off work –of paid work, I should say- and managed to do this:

• Spend one hour on my Open University course work,
• Remove weeds from the front garden,
• Load the car, meet a friend, help moving some stuff to his allotment, then move some junk to the dump (ahem… the Greenford Recycling Centre),
• Drive to the Syon Park Garden Centre, spend lots of money on more plants, seeds, pots and other things necessary to revive our garden,
• Do the shopping for our dinner,
• Prepare puddings for after dinner (Pudim Flan),
• Have a quick bite for lunch myself (leftover pizza), and two very large coffee,
• Plant cabbages, Endive salads, Beetroot, Swiss chard. Clean and prune the old strawberries, add a few new plants. Plant and hang a new strawberries hanging basket. Split and plant basil and parsley. Split and re-pot one of the Bananas, plant some of the shoots into the garden. Pot a new Nectarine tree (which is on a dwarf rootstock). Sow peas (Mange touts),
• Build two large frames with gardening fleece to protect the newly planted things from the chill at nights and from severe rain,
• Clean-up, tidy-up. Prepare all the rubbish and recycling “waste” for collection on the next day,
• Prepare dinner (Crisp and extra-nice chicken thighs on cherry tomatoes, with potato gratin), and
• Sit back, relax, eat.

I love those industrious days. A day well worth getting up for.

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