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“What if I can’t ot up “Grandpa… What if anything I can do for her isn’t enough?”

“You’ll never know unless you give it a bloody good go,” he replied, peering down atand fall into a pool of happiness You have to look for happiness You have to learn where to find it, and so all happy people have in common is that they take risks”

I drew in a deep breath and slowly let it out

“Happy People Take Risks” He inclined his head in aze for a ?”

“I understand”

“Good Now I’”

“Thank you”

“You’re welcome Please tidy the tulips on your way out They’re a mess A bit like you”

I smiled as Mars trotted off after him “I’ll handle the tulips, Grandpa”

“Thank you I’m too old for this shit”

I finished raking the leaves from one of the picnic areas and set the rake on top of theh the peopleat a snail’s pace

I hated being in the public areas when they were open People walked too slow They always stopped in thewith a friend they’d seen at the Post Office just four hours before, and because people never got out of the way, it took twenty minutes to walk a five-minute route

Thank God I’d been listened to when I suggested a few extra gates

Iit and locking it again behind ardens were short-staffed today thanks to a viral twenty-four-hour bug at the local school, which hy I wasn’t doingup leaves

Not my job

I wheeled the leaves over to the back of the storage barns when the compost bins were and co from—it wasn’t like it was autumn and they were ready to fall, so I could only put it down to the wind But even then, there were a lot ht there would be

I checked in with a few other gardeners on the walkie-talkie that I hated carting around, and after I confirreenhouse There were hundreds of things to plant out now that the forecast showed all risk of frost had passed, and there were at least one-hundred and sixty toet into their final positions in the polytunnels over the next week

Plus the peppers, the chillies, the sweet potatoes, the aubergines, the—