Over the years I’ve had a lot of advice off my lovely mum. one piece of this advice stands out over all others.

This advice is that if you can enjoy your work for three days out of five, then you are on to a good thing in terms of your working life. Some days you really won’t want to be there for any number of reasons, but if you can enjoy your work most of the time then you can’t complain.

Thankfully, I do enjoy my work most of the time. As with most people, I do have my off days where I wish I could spend all day sitting in an office out of the heat, rain and dust. In reality, I don’t know how people can do that all day, every day (not a criticism, just a fact) and would be lost without being on my feet and rushing round being active and looking after my plants.