planting stuff comes before all grownup things, taking cuttings you will not see rooted, adding just one more Franjipani colour to the collection of over the fence stolen self propagated things, laying out recycled cement rubble and broken bricks, new emerald-diamonds of invasive miniature veygies, watching beans grow instead of counting them, charging windowsills, mixing Petunias and Kalanchoe, these are the signs