Gardening is the type of activity which often multiplies in scope when you get down to it. My plan this afternoon had been to cut the lawn and do a bit of weeding. I did the lawn and, as I took the trimming down to the compost set up (two bays, next to each other), I was reminded that one was completely full and the other had a little more of last year’s compost to be used up.

That meant the next task was sifting through the old compost, pulling out a few sticks and other things that hadn’t decomposed, and adding it to certain areas in the beds. Then I needed to turn most of the full side over to the now empty side, including snipping down some rather long trimmings that had ended up there. Finally I could get on with the weeding (more material to add to the heap) and, if we weren’t going out for dinner this evening, I wouldn’t be surprised if I was still out there now!