I'm sorry - I've disgraced the name of name of lazy gardener

I don't know how to say this.

I've done a bad, bad thing.

I've disgraced the name of lazy gardeners everywhere.

Our eighteen year-old lawn mower.

I mowed the lawn.

There's a pandemic on and I really can't justify asking someone to travel to do a job I can do myself.  So I dug the mower out of its honourable retirement and mowed some of our grass. I'm not sure which of us was most shocked.  The only reason that we still have a mower is that I couldn't be faffed to get rid of it.

So I mowed the lawn and dropped the clippings on the compost heap, where it will turn itself into a fairly respectable mulch.

Jasmine prunings, ready to create a wildlife refuge.

Talking of disposing of garden waste, I pruned a winter jasmine and needed to get rid of the clippings. They are too coarse to go on the compost heap and, during the crisis, Wealdon won't be collecting garden waste. I've decided to stack them in a corner, where they will provide a refuge for insects and other small creatures.

7-spot ladybird

While, I was pruning the jasmine, I found and rehomed a 7-spot ladybird - a real sign that spring is arriving.