“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…” Maria von Trapp had it absolutely right, but you don’t have to wait until the moment “When the dog bites, when the bee stings” to remember your favourite things. It does no harm at all to think of them at regular intervals, lest the troubles of the world, laid before us in news bulletins 24/7, weigh us down and make despair our common currency.
A garden offers us a sense of perspective, a