What I TIDIED ..... in one corner!

Some the tide of stuff threatens to flow and overflow!
Eventually, I tackle the pile, and it turns out not to be such a huge chore after all!
So today's posting is a bit different.

I began my task at 0815 that is about 15 minutes before sunrise.




The sky was beginning to lighten

This is how the chaos corner looked as I began to work.

Stowing away the laundry baskets was a necessary chore also, but at the same time was a distraction as I could had done it later!


But moving the vacuum was necessary as I needed the space it occupied to do my sorting.

By 0831, the sun had risen



Brighter outside now ....


... and I'm further distracted by the little cats looking in at me!

But the corner is now cleared, and the various items piled on the big chair.

These are the few items that fit with the blog description ... the old shoes, worn plastic gloves, and a long blue plastic bag that I couldn't think of a use for.
All out to the bin!

These few items - stool, ladder, sweeping-brush and mop - are the legitimate 'residents' in this corner.

The rest of the 'stuff' is stored there in the hopes of encouraging myself to put on the warm clothing and to go out to work in the garden.
The 'mess' comes from me coming back in exhausted, and just dropping items according as I peel them off!

These two nice boxes are where the clothing will be stored.

This 'fire-making equipment' has to be stored indoors as damp paper etc. just doesn't burn. (It's for burning the rust-infected fuchsia leaves)

This is the 'equipment' for labelling plants, most important, even for identifying 'corpses' of items that didn't survive.

I'm still hoping I might be able to salvage the solar lights; and the plastic bag contains sponges which I hope to be using soon to wash my flower-pots to ensure that I reduce the risk of infection of new plants.

The ruler is for spacing plants, the spray bottles are full of hope as well as liquids that I experiment with to see will they solve my problems.

These are real chemicals.  Sluggo is called 'organic', but the poor slugs and snails might not agree.

We'll see how the Magic works in the spring.

Meantime, I have stowed them away in the garden shed, which is even messier than the corner (for the same reason)

These food-covers and the defunct laundry bag are used for protecting plants against frost.
I've put them down in the shed also. Hurray!

This is the mask I use especially when treating the fuchsias for vine-weevil.

This is my wonderful electric orange poncho under which I have been known to continue working even when the rain is pelting down.

The shoes that my sister gave me which meant I could dispose of the ones seen above. Very comfortable. Should last ages.

Phase two complete. Going quicker than I had expected.


Several items now in the tall box - but few enough that the contents can be seen from the outside.

The tall box with it flip-lid in place. Actually, it is rarely in place as the hole is not big enough for most things.

Some labels from defunct plants.
Brought these down to shed and stacked with other labels.

I had the idea of using this shell as a plant identifier, but alas it got broken before I got around to buying a good permanent marker.
However, I think the shell itself is beautiful.

Four pairs of pants, two summer, two winter


Four hats, three for shade, one for warmth. I'm just remembering I used to have a red one for heat also - wonder where it is!


One cosy warm scarf, a great way to increase body heat out of doors.
Sometimes I even wear this in 'real life', as opposed to my 'fantasy life' as a gardener (what kind of 'mad' thinking is that!)


Four tops, two winter with hoods, and two summer.


I think there are eighteen gloves (nine pairs) here, but they do have different uses, and some are spare for changing when others get wet.


The finished corner - a king to what it was - and the time is now 0920 - not a bad hours work! But more to come

By 0930 I had set myself up ready to complete a task I possibly began a month or six weeks ago, and which has been there in the kitchen all that time, begging for attention.

Of course, I mean the hand-clipping of the prunings from the vitis henryana which I had partly completed all that time ago.
The process is relatively clean, and so suitable for cold evenings.... BUT ... the computer is a terrible distraction, expecially gardening videos on You Tube.

I quite enjoyed doing the clipping, as I knew well I would, and seeing this image of the mess cleared up and the time at only 1005, it was good to sit down to breakfast.

Who would have thought that so many items would fit in one small corner!