This week has been a
resounding success. I have chucked something out every night this
week, have watered all my outdoor plants (indoor plants are looking
bit dry but they will have to wait for another week!) and am
clenching as I type.
Throwing stuff out has
been strangely cathartic. I'm able to look at the masses of stuff we
have - this is no exaggeration; we have a barn full of boxes which
haven't been unpacked from our house move, ahem, 2 years ago - with
fresh eyes. I've only really gone through stuff in the house and
even then, it's just been my and the baby's things which have been
cleared out but this small start has made me keen to get going
through the rest of the junk. I almost feel like just taking every
unopened box to the charity shop, clearly we haven't missed any of
it! But this is a bit drastic and I think eventually we would wonder
where the Tibetan nose flute or Native American dream catchers are.
Only joking, the majority of the boxes are full of Haynes manuals to
cars we no longer own, ridiculously large serving platters and
obscene amounts of Christmas decorations.... All of which I will
probably end up keeping... Even if I keep it all though the very act
of reminding myself what we actually have will be useful in curbing
spending and drawing some of the more useful stuff back into the
house.
Watering my plants
every night has had twofold benefits; it's got me out of the house
when I've been sitting at a desk all day and it gave me the opportunity to critically examine the health and well-being of my plants: not great if I'm honest... I discovered my
honeysuckle has powdery mildew and my courgette plants are being
eaten by mice.
Cutting the honeysuckle back hard and spraying
with some lethal chemical is apparently the way to go. I've done the
cutting back but once I'd hacked off all the affected bits there was
only a single stalk left. It looks slightly ridiculous but I'm
hoping I've saved it without having to resort to spraying. The worst
of the courgette plants I covered with half a milk carton in the hope
that this would provide a barrier to mice giving the plant a chance
to re-establish itself. Hey, it might work.
I might extend my
nightly waterings to the house plants as well. They are just as
badly neglected; I do not have particularly green fingers....
For those hoping for a
super exciting blog, I'm afraid you've come to the wrong place...
pelvic floor exercises, watering plants and de-junking are basically
as thrilling as it's going to get...
Rock on!
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