Time out!

These last few weeks have been stressful for so many different work/home/school/life reasons. Last week I was finding myself taking no breaks or if I was, it was lunch in front of the computer, answering emails or cups of tea while sewing. I felt harassed and horrid all week.

On Sunday I finally tidied up my big greenhouse. I am lucky to have two greenhouses. One I use all year round for seed growing and general stuff but in the bigger one, I put the garden table in autumn and use it as a 'studio' to take photos of my bags and things when the light is bad. In the Spring, I normally move the table out and set my tomatoes and cucumbers out but this year I have been lax. I had planted a couple of tomatoes and cues out and some salad bits but had left the table in the other half.

Sunday morning, Father's Day, M decided that he would spend his morning watching tv with J and L so I decided to tidy. After an hour, it looked like this....

much better! The salad, radishes and beetroot are still on the left then a few tomatoes then cues, then more tomatoes with basil plants in-front.

On Monday, I had a rubbish day; I had loads to do and had been really annoyed by yet another flippant 'You don't work' comment from a Mum at school because apparently working from home = sitting on your ass doing nothing. I got on with work in the morning but I was still ready to kill so I went outside with a cup of tea, went into the greenhouse, shut the door, because it was windy and had a chat with the cues and tomatoes. Five minutes later, the world was a better place.

I realised that I need to get away from the sewing machine and computer to have proper breaks, to be more productive throughout the day and through-out the week, I have carried this on.