My life is being transformed so quickly at the moment I’m finding it hard to work out what the devil is going on. It’s not randomly changing, it’s very much led by the fruition of loads of work being complete or nearly complete on the house.

I’ve been able to find, organise and use the space in my kitchen in the manner in which I envisaged using it from the time I could only dream about having a working kitchen. The cupboards flow around the room now with a lovely logic – the pans are next to the stove, the crockery for serving up dinner is next to the stove, under the serving area, the cooling rack is in the cupboard underneath the bread machine, the mixing bowls are all located together and so on. It’s like a dream when I walk into the kitchen and can easily find things, as well as the pure joy of finding them where I’d naturally expect them to be.

Because I can sort out the kitchen, I’ve also been able to sort out other parts of the house too. The dining room had been a no-go area for months because it’s been used as a storage area for kitchen units and displaced kitchen paraphernalia….now it’s just about returned to use as a dining room. And so on. Basically, instead of a giant flea pit, we’re almost at a situation where we can call the rat’s nest a home without wanting to either laugh or cry.

There are though, those things that stubbornly remain at the bottom of the list of priorities – for example, the big mirror in the bathroom. It’s held onto the wall by two screws and is clearly too small for its space. I do have a plan but the plan’s execution relies on me having two days in which I can concentrate on the bathroom mirror and nothing else. That time needs to wait because I do still have bigger, more pressing things to do.

The same is true of my tapestry that’s on my tapestry frame and has been for probably ten years. It’s waiting for me to get it out and work on it. I’ve probably done about fifty stitches on the whole thing and they were done years ago. This is the wool from the bag that’s been hanging on the frame too ever since I started it.

One day both jobs will get done but in the meantime, they continue to gather dust while I rush around doing things that are much more urgent and becoming more so by the day.

I am rapidly approaching the next monumental life-changing event (in roughly five weeks time) and by that time, it’ll be impossible to recognise my new life compared to the one I was living before my illness. I have transformed myself so utterly that I think I’m going to consider myself a Karma Chameleon……..hee hee.