I am so happy and grateful for the spiky weeds in the garden that get me obsessively pulling them out and scratching my hands to pieces. It’s a never-ending task that for some strange reason seems to give me some pleasure.

19th June 2023 – I haven’t been pulling these weeds so much this year. Since March it’s been too hot and without rain, they tend not to grow so much. The never-ending task reminds me of the story in The Sandman of the punishment John Dee gives to Alex Burgess of having to count every grain of sand on a beach.