Chapter One

Some time ago I told you how committed I was to make a fresh start.Unfortunately it seems that since then I have been fluttering along quite too often ! You know what things are like : you decide to throw or give away some old magazines, so you start piling them up and 15 minutes later ... you realize you have done nothing but leaf through one magazine for fear of skipping a lifesaving article.


Of course, I am a little ticked at myself for getting sidetracked so easily, but no need to get in a tizzy anyway ! I am still ready to get back on my hobby horse again : 2015 will be the year of Dany the Perky Busy Bee. It is never too late to get off one's backside,is it ?

Yesterday we received some estimates for fixing the garden and some nearly made me fall head over heels. Either landscape gardeners are genuine dreamers ot they only do business with Croesus's relatives. Price differences sometimes double and it's hard to get through their ''artistic '' mumbo jumbo ! I think for some works we will use elbow grease and for the rest an unbiased nursery gardener's advice.

I'll keep you informed of our ''Labours of Hercules '' .