SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK

I may be losing the war on weeds but have finally scored a small victory in the battle of the bulge!  After weeks of being stuck on top of a depressing weight loss plateau, I’ve turned the corner and dropped a few pounds closer to my next half stone goal.  The secret?  Well I can’t say its gardening as very little time has been spent outdoors since our return from Marmaris but I have a sneaky suspicion that those Tuesday night trips to the local swimming pool have a lot to do with it.  Cutting carbs is the easy part, banishing the couch potato for good is another story especially now it’s getting cold and dark.

Since getting back from Turkey not only am I creating a weekly splash but I’m firmly behind the campaign to introduce a 4 day week as seen in a recent online article http://money.aol.co.uk/2012/10/10/bosses-should-offer-four-day-week/  “All employers should introduce the option of a four day working week with gardening promoted as a beneficial way of using the extra time, it has been suggested.”  Amen to that! 

How great would it be to look forward to a nice week day lie in, a leisurely trip to the garden centre for a cup of tea and browse round the bulbs followed by an afternoon of weeding and pruning?  What!!!  I’ve another 15 years of hard labour before I can enjoy this utopia which they call retirement – it’s so unfair!

I guess now that winter’s coming, I’ll have to dream on and squeeze out as much time as I can in my personal paradise before the clocks change or HMRC decides that spending money on plants is deemed some kind of tax avoidance.  Will we be made to declare our free homes for amphibians tax dodge?  

Free homes for frogs

Here's looking at you, kid.

Did you fart? I've just seen a bubble

You get some right riff raff in these communal ponds

Yummy!  A free lunch

George Osborne may be struggling to plug the hole in the nation’s coffers but I’ve got to grapple with ideas for plugging a large deficit of my own in the flower bed as the monstrous grass clump has finally been given its marching orders.

MORE ABOUT:
The 4 day week:  http://money.aol.co.uk/2012/10/10/bosses-should-offer-four-day-week/
Frogs and toads:  http://www.overthegardengate.net/wildlife/frogs.asp