2022 - What I did today

Turns out that I was pretty tired today. Only woke up at half nine (I used to be very good at sleeping half the day, but not in recent years). Then I struggled to get myself going for quite some time. Made it outside around half one and decided that the first job was to strim the glorious no-mow May lawn

I've never used a strimmer before, so I decided I'd strim the back first and do the front once I got the hang of it! The strimmer is an old one that my vendor left in the shed for me, along with some replacement wire, and an extension cable to stretch up the lawn. Well, it took a while for me to figure out the wire, but I got there and it seemed to turn on okay in my living room. Except when I plugged it into the extension cable to take it outside, it tripped all my electrics - whoops! I worked out it must be the extension cable that was the problem, but decided I could at least strim my bottom lawn with the main cable.

Well no.

I think it's safe to say that strimmers aren't supposed to smoke, right?

So I gave up on that plan and started trimming more prunings for sticks to make obelisks from (since mine are all in storage and can't come to me until everything else does). Only for my neighbour to pop his head over the fence. I mentioned my strimmer woes by way of an explanation for why no-mow May seemed to be stretching out a bit. He very *very* quickly offered me his strimmer. Needless to say, he and his wife keep a pristine garden

So, I have strimmed most of the back garden today and will do the rest and the front garden over the weekend (I have been loaned the strimmer for a few days). It's surprisingly heavy going, so I couldn't do it all in one go on a hot day. I have brought the strimmer in very tidily (it was handed to me with the cable beautifully wrapped in neat loops, not at all like the tangled mess that I favour!)

Came back inside for a lolly and a drink around half three. Around half four, I must have dozed off on the settee and only woke up at half eight. Whoops again! I must have needed it though.

Hopefully I will manage to be more productive tomorrow as there's so much to get done.