Housekeeping

Between now and the onset of edits, my theme is trying to get a grip on things that have slipped. As always, that includes the Hollow garden, which I spoke to a few days ago. I told it that this was its point of maximum chaos, and from here on things were going to be different.

How familiar that sounds...

Anyway, a quick round of weeding is in session, which takes a considerable time. Hard-edged raised beds need to be changed to soft-edged (i.e. no boards), mulch applied, the strawberry patch tidied up, new potato beds dug, green manure sown... my head is reeling.

However, this year I am resolved not to make impossible lists on scraps of paper, which then taunt me with their unfinishedness until they are finally thrown away, with much swearing. No. This year I am going to be much more organised, because...

...I'm making an online list. Oh yes - HWz has discovered toodledo.com. This is a free service that lets you tap everything in as it occurs to you, with priorities and optional 'do by' dates; as the date comes closer, it gives things a higher 'importance' so that they slide up the list. I know, I know, it sounds like a gimmick... and it probably is one, but right now it's working for me. Mind you, I have to watch what I say to Witchypoo, who dismisses all such things as nerdery of the highest order. I mean, can you imagine it?

WP: I fell over N2S's bike in the garage last night.

HWz: (through mouthful of cereal) Mmm.

WP: You said you'd clear the garage.

A PAUSE

HWz: (thoughtfully) Mmm.

WP: Any chance you could tackle that today?

HWz: (incredulously) Are you joking? That's only priority two!

WP: What?

HWz: Two! It's only a two! Forking the compost heap out onto the old brassica beds is a five, planting the onions

is a four, and finding out why our old ISP are still billing us three months after we left them is a three!

Why would I ignore all those to tackle a mere two? I ask you!

A LONGER PAUSE

WP: Have you tried valium?