List making
We do lists differently in our house, my husband and I. He always has a list going on of the jobs to do: gutters to clear, weeds to strim, shelves to make, beans to plant out, walls to paint. He works his way through these and rubs them off the whiteboard and is clearly seen to be achieving. Most of what I do never makes a list. I would feel a fool writing up "go shopping", "make lunch", "wipe worktops", "pick herbs" and solemnly rubbing them off every day. Even things that sound like one off tasks - weeding - are simply not. I have to weed a bit three or four days a week. If I don't the weeds take over but I am never done. Perhaps that is what comes of living in a field. So I am not really a great list maker now that I am not at work. But this week we have produced a shared list of some of the administrative things to do and whizzed through it in a most satisfying way so I am feeling quite kindly disposed towards lists. So h...