Being Good To People Is The Only

One Of The Least Arduous But Most Productive Of Gardening Jobs, The Magic Of Deadheading Never Fails To Delight Me. It Was A Revelation When The Principle Was Explained To Me: That Flowers Are The Attempt By The Plant To Reproduce Itself. So If You Cut The Heads Off Before The Flower Turns Into Seeds, The Plant Will Continue To Flower.

In Both Word And Deed, One Of The Greatest Idlers Of All Time Was John Lennon. In His Songs We See Repeated Defences Of Simply Lying Around Doing Nothing.

When Stuck Years Ago In A Job I Hated, My Only Friend Was The Public Bench. As The Tedious Mornings Dragged On, How I Would Long For The Lunch Hour, When I Would Be Able To Escape The Torture Of The Office And Stroll Over To The Churchyard And Into The Comforting Wooden Embrace Of One Of Its Benches.

Computers Tend To Separate Us From Each Other - Mum's On The Laptop, Dad's On The Ipad, Teenagers Are On Facebook, Toddlers Are On The Ds, And So On.

Alongside My "no Email" Policy, I Resolve To Make Better Use Of The Wonderful Royal Mail, And Send Letters And Postcards To People. There Is A Huge Pleasure In Writing A Letter, Putting It In An Envelope And Sticking The Stamp On It. And Huge Pleasure In Receiving Real Letters, Too.