Garden life
I wonder if there are people out there whose house and garden always look the same and who thus don't need to tidy up for visitors. What a perfect world that would be: the kitchen floor would always be clean, the flower beds would always be weed free and there would never be piles of electrical gubbins on the kitchen table. I'd love to live like that but in order to achieve it I would have to move house to a small and perfectly formed modern flat, divorce my delightful husband and live meanly by myself, stop having cats and chickens and trying to run two acres of garden, a holiday cottage and numerous outbuildings. I might be able to manage a small and perfectly formed balcony. I think I might be saying that in order to achieve it I would have to live someone else's life. This week Karen and Kate came to visit and it was really lovely to see them. Did I say I love having visitors? However as a result I spent days before their arrival weeding, and ...