In a few days’ time, this spikey ball will look a lot more benign. It’ll be covered in flowers and bees but as things stand, it looks quite scary with its pickles and sharp edges. It just goes to show how much things can change over time.

Behind the scenes, connections are being made, energy is being created, it’s used to do work and the work results (at least sometimes) in good things. Is it too much to ask that some of the work I’ve done lately will result in something good happening? All of the job applications, all of the hard, physical labour, all of the creativity, all of the dull slog are not reaping any reward… yet. How long will this continue? I don’t need much – almost any job would provide me with enough income to get by and to be honest, the rest of it will then become much less of a mountain.

I NEED something to come good and I need it to happen soon because hope is ebbing away. The stupid thing is that in the time it takes for the blooms on this Echinops to open could be enough…