I learnt a valuable lesson yesterday. I have been very spoilt in the garden belonging to my main client; I rarely have to undertake any basic garden tasks (mowing, strimming, raking, leaves, sweeping patios etc). I am left alone to prance around, like the flower fairy I am, doing all the nice jobs. That is, until the head of garden maintenance damaged his Achilles’ tendon (or, according to the cleaners, his ‘Ercules tendon- you’ve got to love the cleaners). 2nd in command of garden maintenance is not so keen on doing anything that doesn’t involve noisy machinery and he would prefer not to break into a sweat, so I found myself reluctantly having to rake leaves…..and I jolly well loved it! 

Never think that you are too high up the horticultural food chain to rake leaves. Raking leaves if for everyone and it’s great excercise too. 

Autumn is beautiful – it’s my favourite season 🙂