Occasionally I pop outside, and am treated with a splash of colour and an accidental harvest.
The fruit is doing well. I can see quite a few raspberries, and the gooseberry bush is achingly ready to be picked - I'll do that tonight. There are actually a couple of apples growing this year. The redcurrants are slowly being picked off by a wood pigeon, who slinks guiltily away each night as I arrive home.
My mum's coming to visit at the weekend, and I'm tempted to rope her into helping me sort it all out (sorry mum!) The garden is small, and even a couple of hours of work makes a big difference. We're cooling off here after a few days of intense (for us!) heat, and so it will be good to be outside.
And, of course, the house needs to be presentable from the outside too....
We're still making progress inside - I'm off work next week, and by the end of it we hope to have a finished bathroom and a much-improved (although probably not finished) bedroom. Getting there...