I really like wood turning. The shed has become a workshop, and I’ve had to buy a Keter Darwin shed to store the stuff that was in the shed (gardening tools and the like). I’m still obviously learning, but the process of turning wood requires so much in the moment focus, that everything else fades away, but at the same time, it’s relaxing.

Poppy ended up having an MRI and a 3 month course of antibiotics. She’s still slightly unstable, and probably has a polyp, but she’s back to loving life and doesn’t let it slow her down. She had another possible flare up a few weeks ago, but is over that too. We’ll need to take a decision soon about surgical intervention, but even then the polyp could just grow back.

Garden is a tip, but we’ve planted a tree in the front garden, and three in the back garden, to replace the ones we’ve cut down over the years. We chopped the willow down in the back garden, it was growing almost horizontally after tipping over a while back without us noticing. The new ones have stakes and we hope they’ll perform better but it looks a bit bare while they’re getting established.