I’ve a fair bit of grass to cut but we don’t really have a lawn. Even the bit we can refer to as the lawn is really part of a farm track and right of way. It’s really nice being round the back there. This is looking out from the bench across to the field (potatoes this year) and looking the other way from our veg beds and tubs to the bench and pigsties.

As for the ability to do things. Mum always was the gardener here but now mid 80s, she needs the help of a wheeled walker to get round the back now. She’s round there at the moment doing a little bit of tidying up round the pigsties but she can’t do much and of what she can do, what she’d have done in 1/2hr a few years back might take all day now.

I’ve got my own limitations too, eg. I can’t bend to weed but at the moment, I can strim and mow without problem. Sometimes we have wondered if we will keep this area going another year (also there is a gardener who does an hour a week) but we’ve managed it so far – with some simplifications, eg. flower beds have gone to grass.

Oh well, I’ll have to see what mum’s doing for tea in another hour or so. Not making it – I’ve got the second day of a veg curry I made for that – but whether she wants her meal in or out doors.