Excuse the absence.
I have been labouring in the garden – under the instruction of my green-thumbed mother and her hard-working spouse. I have been weeding, and trimming and absorbing instructions. I have been educated in plant choices and thrilled to see expanses of dirt emerge. I have ripped out things that were struggling and piled up mountains of plant-matter that will no doubt take weeks to dispose of.
I have been busy.
I have been cooking, moving, feeding and watering (plants and people), placating bored children and ferrying and socialising and generally falling into bed at the end of long days with obvious results.
And even though those results are huge swathes of dirt with eager little plants in the middle, I am happy.
Today our labouring house-guests have left, and I can get back to being me – with hopefully a bit of green-thumb taking root, because, you know, we have too many tombstones that look like this:
Impatiens by name impatient by nature – it’s fitting. Lets hope the new me can take pleasure in gentler pursuits… 
Hi -
I had a text message from Mum not long ago, to say that Dad whistled and hummed all the way home.
Please thank S for his part in giving them such a lovely performance tonight; hope it was a sellout!
Full report once I’ve had the full debrief
All I can say is …. me too! I’ve been out in the garden hacking away and pulling up mountains of weeds, I swear it has been six months since i gardened! It’s a nice feeling when you start making some headway though. I just have to learn about what plants I can get to put in the garden too, I am no green thumb.. more like a black thumb.