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Sometimes even I find the things I enjoy doing quite strange. Strange for me, that is, because I'm someone who enjoys sitting inside reading and doing handwork and cooking. Yet when I get around to it, I also quite enjoy getting into the garden and doing some physical activities. I was waiting for C to get home to go for a walk with her, but I had found something else to do by the time she got home.

The gorse has been annoying me lately. I hacked away at it for half an hour or so tonight and have a a couple of cubic metres lying on the patio. I haven't done anything with it, of course (that's the part I don't enjoy), but it's definitely going to take more than one week of putting it in the blue bin to get rid of it all, which is what we're going to have to do unless we can find a convenient skip somewhere.

The scary thing is that I don't know if it made that much of a difference. We don't have gorse bushes on the property so much as we have gorse trees.

I'm not the first one to hack away at it - I found stumps of gorse trees on the hill. And we can't pull it out by the roots, because it'll bring the hill down with it. I wonder what a good ground cover is that will take over from the gorse and yet not be a pest in a few years time.

I think I shall go watch SGA now.