That time again.

Yes it's the official opening of the EuropeCrazy damage-limitation - I mean gardening - season.

Tonight I cut down some overhanging tree branches and pruned some overgrown rose bushes and ...I'd forgotten how therapeutic it all was, whilst repeating over and over again in my mind - "you're not gonna beat me this year/you're not gonna beat me this year..."

I say it every year, but this year I am going to make some kind of effort. And when I'm going through that whole post-Gothenburg-and-Dusseldorf-void, then I'll know what I need to do.

Oh, and the daffodils are in full bloom now...