I know someone who has been taking charge in her garden, so I think it's probably time to boast about that achievement. I still need a boat to get out to my borders, but I'm hopeful that it will improve soon. I need to take a rubbish sack into the greenhouse and just scrape all the previous owners' stuff into it, rather than bothering to sort through or it will never get cleared. Some of it is very icky and some bits just disintegrate on contact.

But that's not going to happen this weekend. We have a ruck of paperwork to complete including an entire sub-franchise conact from scratch almost; and then there are DD's new school shoes to get, which is ALWAYS a nightmare. I spent a fortune on the last pair in September and I'd like to say they lasted this long but they were scuffed horribly in the first week. Lovely pair of shoes, quite old-fashioned but not heavy or ugly. Just right for someone with long narrow feet, long skinny legs and not much overall height. If I put her in big clumpy shoes she looks like a clown, and most of them don't fit round her skinny ankles. Having kids will actually make it easier for her to buy shoes in future, just like me!

Right, I've checked all my personal and work emails, popped in on here, so now we need to get out and do that shopping. If I can get the kids out of their pjs.

Kerri.