Ae you the type of person who can concentrate on the job in hand & finish it? Or, are you like me, something more important, or exciting distracts you half way through & you are lost to the new task? I am the latter I’m sorry to say. I’ve always been the same. I start something, but there is always something to distract me.

Take yesterday for instance. I needed my 8″ baking tins, the silver ones, not the red ones. I couldn’t find them, so I took on a complete overhaul of the pantry. Meaning I only had time to bake four cakes yesterday and the pantry is still a mess. Today I had really big plans, but the pantry still beckoned, so I pulled down a few large boxes of the top shelf. Bingo after throwing out all the sugar decorations I bought last year & a fair few misshapen cup cake cases I found my food colours. This was all well and good, but it is now almost eleven. I have created a large pile of plastic boxes for washing up, after throwing out their contents & only put two cakes in the oven!

This fault follows me everywhere. I think it stems from a lack of patience. I can not say, finish a crochet blanket, without finishing something smaller in between. I’m always looking for a result. I need to cross that finish line. I’m more suited to a sprint than a marathon.

That is quite apparent when walking up the stairs from the ground floor to the first. All is nicely repainted until you get almost up to the top, this is where I must have stopped for a bathroom break……& smashed all the tiles of the wall to re-tile the bathroom. The tiles are finished, but I didn’t paint in there, because by now I was papering my bedroom!

It’s not just in the house. I can be doing something as simple as watering the garden & filling up the various water stations for the birds. I spot maybe a branch of a tree that is growing over a path & that is me diverted off into pruning for the rest of the day.

Everyday ends up a mish mash of chores interspersed with a fair bit of writing…………One day I hope to have the house in some sort of order, but by then I expect I’ll have to start all over again……….