Here's a glimpse of my afternoon in the garden.  Armed with a very long "to do" list I have been flitting around, like a delirious butterfly, from flower to flower, starting numerous jobs... and not quite finishing most.  I've lifted the onions and shallots, some of the dahlias are staked and the top heavy cardoons are tied up with a pair of tights that a) I wore at my wedding and b) my daughter laddered in a dance show twenty years later. Frankly they're much more use in the garden than ever they were hibernating in a drawer.