I woke this morning and my first thought was hmm, not sure I want to go to the Mind shop... the first time I've had that thought in ten years :-(  

....actually that wasn't my first thought, it was my second. My first was that the start stop technology that my new car has must be googled/youtubed to death as I've not much idea about it but want/need to learn!

I'm falling out of love with the Mind shop because, now that Julie's retired, we have a new manager, Nina, and it's just not the same, inevitably. Nina is not Julie, nothing like, and she's not loving the shop because it's not like her previous one.

I work with Margot and Tom on a Tuesday and Margot feels the same as I do, and neither of us are sure whether or not we'll carry on. Which is a shame. The shop has always been a  place of friendship and joy for me, somewhere to relax, laugh, discuss, empathise, commiserate, it's been whatever I've needed, and that was mostly down to Julie. I'm not going to leave yet, it would be too much of a wrench, I need to see what happens in the long term. The shop has been too big a part of my life to let go of it lightly. 

Got home and went straight out for a local walk, calling in at the allotment on my way back and finding that the rhubarb is growing! See extra. I'd been worried because I'd transplanted it from a neighbouring plot and nothing is certain, phew!